How Debra Messing's 'pain-in-the-ass' contract unexpectedly saved the Will & Grace series finale
) ex-husband Stan wants her to meet him at the top of the Statue of Liberty, hoping to finally win her back.
The episode’s title, “It’s Time,” functions on a variety of levels — for all of the characters, but also the series as a whole and its creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, who got to change the course of Will, Grace, Jack, and Karen’s lives , and even right some missteps from the series' original run.
You brought up about their having kids in the original series finale. At one point this season, once we found out they were both going to be parents, I wondered if we were going to see them as parents, if the kids would have the same names as before...was that ever a consideration?] The kids aren't a part ofshow. This show is not about that. This show is about those four people and the relationships that they have and what's best for those four people.
When it comes to people being able to work, you guys are in a bit of a rare position this TV season in that you did get to film a finale. Many shows didn’t get to, of course, so I can’t imagine how grateful you must be that you wrapped back in December.Oh my God, thank God. It would have been the most unfinished feeling to not get to the end of this season. Thank God Debra had it in her contract that we had to be done by Christmas.
This show has been heralded for how it was groundbreaking and changed the narrative in many ways about gay people and culture. What is the episode or moment from this three-season run that you’re most proud of?I can think of a couple of things that we shied away from that were topical the first time around that we didn't shy away from this time.
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