Eric McCormick Says Son Trolled Him for Watching ‘Will and Grace’ Reruns:
It’s Like ‘Home Movies’
It’s Like ‘Home Movies’
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00:00Do you ever go back and watch Will & Grace, though?
00:02Oh, if it's on, sure.
00:04Sean and I had a podcast for a little while
00:06which sort of forced us to go back
00:08and watch every one.
00:10He never watched them.
00:12I love it. It's like
00:14family movies.
00:18Particularly the outtakes. That's my favorite.
00:20It's just to watch the old outtakes.
00:22It's a reminder of the greatest job.
00:24Yeah. When you were doing the Rewatch
00:26podcast,
00:28was there a particular episode
00:30that you just loved so much?
00:32There was...
00:34There's so many things
00:36I know I remember, and I remember them
00:38the same way all the time. The thing I'd forgotten
00:40was how great Gregory Hines was.
00:42He was in many
00:44ways our first regular big star.
00:46Him and Sidney Pollack
00:48who played my dad.
00:50Gregory was hilarious and sexy
00:52and from left field
00:54his whole delivery.
00:56That was my favorite Rediscover.
00:58Were there any other favorite
01:00guest stars? Sidney Pollack for sure.
01:04He had about five episodes
01:06overall before he passed away
01:08in life.
01:10He and Blythe Danner is my mom.
01:12Michael Douglas.
01:14Gene Wilder.
01:16I made Gene Wilder really break up
01:18which was one of my greatest accomplishments
01:20of all time.
01:22Does it still seem like almost
01:24a pinch me moment? I can't believe
01:26this is my life sometimes.
01:28Yeah, for sure.
01:30It was...
01:32Because it came so thick and fast.
01:34A show like Nine Bodies, we do six
01:36episodes, now here I am, it's over, I'm
01:38promoting it. But Will & Grace
01:40was my life. Twenty-two
01:42sometimes twenty-four episodes a year
01:44for eight years.
01:46And then it came back and so it just feels like
01:48there's this...
01:50I've been going through old photographs
01:52I found pictures of my son at
01:54three at the final
01:56episode, the final taping in 2006
01:58and looking through the camera
02:00it's like, yeah, it's just sort of part of
02:02he didn't know it
02:04at three years old but he's learned it now.
02:06Has he gone back and watched?
02:08No.
02:10It's so funny, everybody that I talk to
02:12they all say the same thing. They're like,
02:14they don't care, I'm just dad, right?
02:16I remember once, I think it was a Thanksgiving
02:18and he walked in and we
02:20were sitting there and
02:22an old rerun had come up
02:24and he stood, he looked at us and he looked at
02:26the screen and he looked back
02:28and he said, are you just going to sit
02:30and watch yourself on television all day?
02:32This is appalling.
02:34I finally got him to look
02:36at season one of Travelers and he really
02:38liked it. I said, great, great. I said, what did you think
02:40of the other seasons? I haven't watched them. I haven't watched
02:42it. I'm sure he'll watch this one.
02:44It's only six episodes.
02:46Wouldn't it kill you? It's putting you
02:48through college.