NBC Once Gave The Entire Cast of ‘Will & Grace’ Free Porsches!
Talk about showing your gratitude!
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the cast of Will & Grace opened up about the good old days when they were the stars of NBC — and they’re soon to be stars once again in an upcoming revival, which already got picked up for a second season.
“I do remember [then NBC Entertainment President] Scott Sassa saying, ‘We just wanted to say thank you,’ and it was very pointed,” Eric McCormack said. “So we all in a very pointed way said, well, thank you. He said, no, and then like Carol Merrill on Let’s Make a Deal, he gestured in a big way and went, no, thank you. And that’s when our heads turned like puppets and we saw four matching Porsches.”
Debra Messing added: “I remember looking over at Sean. His eyes fell out of his head. Like, here’s a kid who literally had just done a small indie film before he came to do this TV show. It was really a kind of an out-of-body Oprah moment, where you never, ever imagine in any scenario that someone would say, ‘Oh, this is your present.’”
Megan Mullally said, “We didn’t have smart phones with cameras in them at the time. So there are no photographs of any of that. And it’s really pretty amazing. To NBC’s credit, it was mysterious and kind of really cool that they didn’t turn it into a big thing with, like, people jumping out of the bushes and taking our pictures.”
Read more at EW.