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06-09-2023, 06:39 PM
https://www.edgemedianetwork.com/story/325964?fbclid=IwAR08eIkwlYuO-IuU093-Y9QPwleAp63Lx7CZ-SGtAiGcEW50oxyBPAGMvRQ_aem_th_AZK-rqArvvIV1MiclzPSXA-Ilf9PUZhFUBzDj8qGI8NRHOY4-MwgQYqjGrHoxdno_iY&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#
There is one episode of Will & Grace that has been banned since it originally aired in 1999.
"At 'The Magic of Will & Grace' panel at The Paley Center for Media in New York City on Monday evening [June 5]," McCormack discussed the censored episode, People Mag said, explaining that "Will Works Out" (https://willandgrace.fandom.com/wiki/Will_Works_Out) includes a scene set at a gym when "Sean Hayes' character, Jack McFarland, joined McCormack's Will" and Will hurled a slur at him.
"He was being particularly gay," McCormack, who is straight, told the audience of the character played by Hayes, who is gay. "And I called him the F-word. And they didn't repeat that episode."
Although it's "the one episode that's never ever been ever aired again," and it even "lost sponsors," McCormack went on to say that "there was such truth to it," People Mag detailed.
"So we did take that issue on," McCormack added. "But that issue, particularly, was within the gay community. There are levels and there were feelings, and we dared to sort of show them."
At another moment, the magazine relayed, a producer who was also on the panel recalled a different problematic moment that took place in the very first episode. McCormack and Debra Messing, who played Grace, shared a kiss that had not been scripted.
"And Grace says to Will, 'Anything? Anything?'" the producer recounted. "That would never, ever fly today."
There is one episode of Will & Grace that has been banned since it originally aired in 1999.
"At 'The Magic of Will & Grace' panel at The Paley Center for Media in New York City on Monday evening [June 5]," McCormack discussed the censored episode, People Mag said, explaining that "Will Works Out" (https://willandgrace.fandom.com/wiki/Will_Works_Out) includes a scene set at a gym when "Sean Hayes' character, Jack McFarland, joined McCormack's Will" and Will hurled a slur at him.
"He was being particularly gay," McCormack, who is straight, told the audience of the character played by Hayes, who is gay. "And I called him the F-word. And they didn't repeat that episode."
Although it's "the one episode that's never ever been ever aired again," and it even "lost sponsors," McCormack went on to say that "there was such truth to it," People Mag detailed.
"So we did take that issue on," McCormack added. "But that issue, particularly, was within the gay community. There are levels and there were feelings, and we dared to sort of show them."
At another moment, the magazine relayed, a producer who was also on the panel recalled a different problematic moment that took place in the very first episode. McCormack and Debra Messing, who played Grace, shared a kiss that had not been scripted.
"And Grace says to Will, 'Anything? Anything?'" the producer recounted. "That would never, ever fly today."