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Eric McCormack - a straight actor who found fame playing a gay character on NBC's Will & Grace - has chimed in on the debate about gay roles.
The 60-year-old Toronto native played gay lawyer Will Truman for 11 seasons, the first eight in its original run from 1998 to 2006 and an additional three seasons from 2017 to 2020.
Will & Grace was a landmark series for the LGBTQ community, becoming one of the first successful network sitcoms with gay cast members.
Now there has been much debate over wheter straight actors should be playing gay roles, which McCormack chimed in on during a Good Morning Britain interview.
'That’s a tough one for me because I didn’t become an actor so that I could play an actor,' McCormack said on the show, weeks after appearing at an Oscar viewing party with estranged wife Janet Holden.
Eric McCormack - a straight actor who found fame playing a gay character on NBC's Will & Grace - has chimed in on the debate about gay roles.
The 60-year-old Toronto native played gay lawyer Will Truman for 11 seasons, the first eight in its original run from 1998 to 2006 and an additional three seasons from 2017 to 2020
Now there has been much debate over wheter straight actors should be playing gay roles, which McCormack chimed in on during a Good Morning Britain interview
'There’s no part I’ve ever played where I wasn’t playing something I’m
