Debra Messing Says Former Network Exec Wanted Her to Have 'Bigger Boobs' on 'Will & Grace'
etonline.comDebra Messing is getting candid about her sitcom days. On Monday, the actress participated in The Magic of at The Paley Center for Media and made a reveal about a former NBC executive who wanted to make a change to her character, Grace Adler's, body.«The very first fitting, they had the chicken cutlets to make me bigger,» Messing told the audience. «I just wasn't a fan of like the whole idea of it.»The 54-year-old actress said that she had no problem speaking up for herself and said that if the executive wanted to make the request, he would have to say it to her directly. «I was like, 'You know what?
I don't need that,'» she said. «And they're like, 'Well, it's the president of the network [saying this].' And I said, 'If he wants it, then he needs to come here and tell me to my face.'»Messing played Grace opposite Eric McCormack (who portrayed Will Truman) from 1998 to 2006.
The duo, along with Sean Hayes (who played Jack McFarland) and Megan Mullally (who took on the role of Karen Walker) reprised their roles for three seasons from 2017 to 2020.Messing has been open about the challenges she faced with her body during the early days of the show.
In 2020, the actress was a guest on the Earwolf podcast with Jameela Jamil, and discussed the standards placed on her body at the start of her career.«When I started I was a size eight, and what happened was, every time I would go in for a fitting, I couldn't fit into clothes.
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