Will & Grace’s fab four was almost a fab five.
Originally, recalls McCormack, their co-stars were Debra Messing, Megan Mullally, and… Cress Williams.
“There were five characters as regulars,” says McCormack.

Will & Grace; Cress Williams.Chris Haston/NBCU Photo Bank; Jim Spellman/WireImage
“And the fifth was my partner at my small law firm.”
“I felt so terrible,” says McCormack.
“It was nothing he did or didn’t do…
It just didn’t fit what the show is supposed to be.”
And it was the following pilot season that I gotWill & Graceand shot that."
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