SECRETS FROM THE SET

With Will & Grace being revived for a 16-episode series and our favourite characters – Will Truman (Eric Mccormack), Grace Adler (Debra Messing), Jack Mcfarland (Sean Hayes) and Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) – returning, we uncovered a few interesting tidbits about how the show came together...

1 DEBRA HIT THE BOTTLE! The show’s creators wanted Debra so badly they went to her house with a bottle of vodka and tried to persuade her. “I’m a lightweight,” said Debra. “By the end of the evening, they said, ‘Will you do it?’ I said, ‘Let’s talk tomorrow.’”

2 SEAN THREW AWAY THE SCRIPT “I laughed out loud,” Sean said of when he first read the script at the Sundance Film Festival. “But I’d only been at Sundance two days and I had to buy my own plane ticket [to LA] just to audition. So I tossed it, thinking there’d be 10,000 more sitcoms.”

3 NOT GAY ENOUGH! Gay Scottish actor John Barrowman missed out on playing Will because producers told the star he was “too straight”. Eric, who is straight in real life, got the part instead.

4 EARNING THE BIG BUCKS By the end of the show’s original run, Debra and Eric were both making $400,000 an episode. WILL & GRACE launches Friday on Stan