Will & Grace: Megan Mullally to miss two episodes of final season amid ‘cast feud’ rumours
Megan Mullally will miss two episodes of the forthcoming final season of Will & Grace, amid rumours of a cast feud.
According to TV Line, Mullally’s character Karen Walker will not appear in two episodes of the series as Mullally requested a “temporary leave of absence” from filming.
Mullally’s temporary departure coincides with rumours of a feud between the Will & Grace cast. Fans noticed earlier this year that Mullally and co-star Debra Messing had unfollowed one another on Instagram.
Mullally has also posted a number of Instagram messages alluding to ending a friendship. “It’s okay to let go of relationships that aren’t healthy and positive, even with people you’ve known for years and once trusted,” Mullally wrote in May.
“Shout out to the people who are happy for your happiness, who feel excitement when you win, who take joy in your success,” Mullally wrote in another Instagram message. “The people who don’t use your success as ammunition against you.”
Mullally has since unfollowed her fellow co-star Sean Hayes on Instagram. In May, Messing tagged all of her Will & Grace co-stars, along with its co-creator Max Mutchnik and director James Burrows, in an Instagram image related to the show’s Emmy Awards campaign, but not Mullally.
In September, Eric McCormack, who plays Will on the series, denied that the cast had fallen out. “It seems crazy,” the actor told US Weekly. “It is crazy! I think people worried about [the Instagram unfollowing] entirely too much. The four of us get along like a house on fire, we always have.”
The long-running sitcom, which originally ran from 1998 until 2006, was revived in 2017. It was announced in July that the forthcoming 11th season will be its last.
