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&#;Will & Grace&#; Star Eric McCormack Says Straight Actors Playing Gay Characters Is &#;Part of the Gig&#;

Eric McCormack doesn&#;t believe an actor&#;s sexuality should acquire in the way of the characters they play onscreen. The Will & Grace star said this week he feels &#;the optimal person for the role&#; should be cast in all projects, regardless of the actor&#;s personal identity.

McCormack, who is straight, played protagonist Will, who is gay, on NBC&#;s beloved Will & Grace. The actor said during a Monday appearance on ITV&#;s Good Morning Britain reported by Out magazine that “I didn’t become an actor so that I could participate an actor.&#;

&#;There’s no part I’ve ever played where I wasn’t playing something I’m not,&#; McCormack continued. &#;It’s part of the gig. And I’ve always said, if gay actors weren’t allowed to play straight actors, Broadway would be over.&#;

He added, “So this is what we do. I’d enjoy to think that I represent it well. I came from the theater, and one of my bes

Sunday Puzzle: Phonetically 'Gay'

On-air challenge

Every answer today is a word or name with the syllable "gay" — phonetically,  in any spelling — somewhere inside it.
Ex. Group of worshippers in a church  —>  CONGREGATION

1. Cousin of a crocodile

2. Big, fancy party

3. Japanese female dancer

4. Small bouquet

5. Person who plays Phone of Duty or League of Legends

6. The "I" of F.B.I.

7. Russian composer Rachmaninov

8. River through Pittsburgh

9. Artificial watering of land for agriculture

Dance that's the national gyrate of the Dominican Republic

Merrymaking or festiveness

Last week's challenge

Think of a famous current actor. His first name is also the name of a famous movie character. Drop the middle letter of his last label and you'll specify another famous movie character. Each character is a central figure in a dozen or more films. What actor is this?

Challenge answer

Jason Bateman (Jason of the "Friday the 13th" movies + Batman)

Winner

Carina Aleckson of Minneapolis, Minn.

This week's challenge

This week's verb comes

Jason Bateman Can’t Stare Away

Welcome to “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace.” Each week, Nicolle sits down with someone she admires for conversations that are illuminating, inspiring, and sometimes surprising. This first episode begins with Jason Bateman copping to how much he’d admire to be behind the steady camon Nicolle’s “Deadline: Light House” set. From there they confer his endearingly barbed relationship with his “Smartless” co-hosts Will Arnett and Sean Hayes, reflect on how to navigate the incredible plot twists of this wild Trump era, and Jason walks Nicolle through how to capture pleasant sound of a body splat on the pavement.

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Note: This is a tough transcript. Please excuse any typos.

Jason Bateman: But there’s a writer’s room somewhere.

Nicole Wallace: Somewhere?

Jason Bateman: Yeah, and in that writer’s room, they are figuring out these seasonal arcs that they’re just gobsmacking, verb, for instance, you know, remember for a moment there, it was very plausible that he w

Jason Bateman

Born in Rye, NY Jason Kent Bateman was the son of Hollywood producer Kent Bateman and the younger brother of actress Justine Bateman. He began acting at the age of 10 as the star of an educational film, which led to several television commercials and ultimately, series operate. In , the year-old Bateman scored a recurring role as James Cooper Ingalls, an orphan adopted by Michael Landon's Pa Ingalls, on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie" (NBC, ). Bateman's large break, however, came when he was cast as Derek Taylor on "Silver Spoons." Portraying a cute, smooth talking ne'er do-well, Bateman's Derek became wildly popular with audiences, effortlessly stealing scenes from series' star Ricky Schroeder. Despite his popularity, or perhaps because of it, Bateman's character was written out of the reveal after the second season, allegedly at the insistence of Ricky Schroeder's remaining idle for lengthy, Bateman promptly resurfaced in as the star of his own show, "It's Your Move" (NBC, ) as Matt Burton, an outwardly angelic year-old who is actually a slick confidence tric