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Megan Mullally honored her precocious Will & Grace co-star Leslie Jordan and discussed her iconic character, Karen, astatine the premiere of the Party Down revival.
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From Will & Grace to Karen & Karen.
Megan Mullally is nary alien to a sitcom set. Whether it was the archetypal 1998 mentation oregon the 2017 revival, the histrion was astatine location playing Karen Walker for 11 seasons connected NBC. As she revealed, there's a satellite successful which viewers could person kept up with the fan-favorite quality adjacent longer.
"There was immoderate speech of maine doing a Karen spinoff [after the original]," Mullally told E! News exclusively astatine the premiere of the Party Down reboot connected Feb. 22. "But I wanted to bash a amusement with Martin Short that was different."
In fact, that wasn't the lone clip Eric McCormack, Debra Messing and Sean Hayes' erstwhile co-star astir landed her ain amusement (However, she did admit she's done playing the character for now).
"Also, they talked to maine astir doing a Karen spinoff aft the past one, too," Mullally added. "But it wasn't truly real."
One facet of Will & Grace that was existent was her undeniable chemistry with precocious co-star, Leslie Jordan. She discussed his viral Internet fame and their past moments unneurotic before his abrupt death astatine property 67 successful October.
"He was truthful happy," Mullally shared. "The Instagram happening made him consciousness similar radical were seeing him and getting him—and they were, and they inactive are. When you're that talented and you don't person the precisely close conveyance that truly captures people's attention: That was his vehicle, Instagram."
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The histrion volition adjacent look successful the Party Down revival alongside chap returning stars Ken Marino, Jane Lynch, Martin Starr and Ryan Hansen alongside caller additions Jennifer Garner, Tyrel Jackson Williams, Zoë Chao and James Marsden. The archetypal bid ran for 2 seasons connected Starz from 2009 to 2010.
"It truly is the funniest, nicest radical of people," Mullally noted. "Honestly, it's conscionable a peculiar group. I hatred utilizing that word, but it's true."
Don't hold for the Party Down reboot erstwhile it premieres Feb. 24 connected Starz, much than 12 years after it archetypal went disconnected the air.
Plus, spot much of Megan Mullally's interrogation contiguous connected E! News astatine 11 p.m. EST.
—Reporting by Adam Havener
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