30 Things You Never Knew About the Making of 'Will & Grace'

Before coming out in college, Mutchnick dated Janet Eisenberg and the two remained close friends.

Producers had their hearts set on casting Messing, who, at the time, was starring in Prey. “They poured me several shots, we spoke for several hours and they pitched me the show,” Messing told New York Daily News. “I’m a lightweight. I didn’t need much to be a little giddy." The next day, Messing accepted.

NBC decided they were more interested in a show about the supporting characters.

Mullally was hesitant to audition for Karen—she felt the role was too familiar. “[Then] I looked at it again and thought I could put sort of a new twist on it, where it would be quirky and different. So I went back in and I got the part,” she told the A.V. Club.

The actress is rumored to have almost played the role of Carrie.

Will & Grace scripts, footage, and props were on display in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History as part of an LGBTQ collection.

Offerman, Mullally’s then-boyfriend, now-husband, lost out to Woody Harrelson. He did make a cameo, though, as a plumber in season four’s Thanksgiving episode.

McCormack, Messing, Hayes, and Mullally received matching cars. “You can’t imagine how mind-fucked we were. It was awesome,” said Mullally.

166 guest stars, to be exact.

“She liked Sean. She invited him to go to her castle in Italy, and he was like ‘nah’,” Mullally told Jimmy Kimmel.

The prototype was made by Mattel.

But, after Friends’ spinoff Joey performed poorly, NBC scrapped the idea.

In turn, Grace didn’t appear in five episodes.

Hayes and Mullally were paid slightly less.

“I would still be doing it from 2006. It was a no-brainer. Everything made me want to come back,” she told the Hollywood Reporter.

“It allows dating. He’s comfortable with himself as an older gay man,” McCormack said of his character.

“The only thing that I asked for was that Grace be a feminist,” she explained.

“I”m old. My character’s old. We have to address what technology has done for people in middle age and how we use it and don’t know how to use it,” McCormack explained.