Eric McCormick Says Son Trolled Him for Watching ‘Will and Grace’ Reruns: 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.

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