Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
The number of people in the Midwest that now watch a show with two gay characters, I think, is remarkable." ()
It just didn't happen. The next thing you know, the gay of the show is allowed to have its own life. It was not something we had to hide or play up too much." ()
We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.