AUTOR'S NOTE: Even though I am using their real names, I am not quoting them…fictional…remember!

Interviewer N, Irene Irene, Character real name.

N: Hello and welcome to another special interview and bloopers episode, here with me are the original cast of Will and Grace and along with them is "Irene". Hi.

ALL: Hey

N: So, another season is about to go to an end, what are some of your personal thoughts?

ERIC: Well I feel that it's a little better than last season, it seems to flow better, by stories. Last season was a little random, I have to say but this one has improved because it had the original elements seen in season one as well as some evolution seen in later seasons.

DEBRA: Yeah I felt that it had improved by a little from last season.

N: So, Irene, I heard you were leaving the show?

IRENE: Yes (sighs) I am.

N: Why is that?

IRENE: I guess…well I kind of feel that I've left a good mark on "Will and Grace" and the character, Irene, was to be used as a way to get up ratings and last season was good but this season Irene was made more into like a Rosario character. She's there, you know she's there, you just hardly see or hear about her, you know? Anyways, the people of "Will and Grace" found that they are doing fine with or without Irene, so we can make do without the character.

N: I heard it was your choice to leave.

IRENE: Yep I want to move on towards a different direction.

N: Well we're rooting for ya….. I got a list of guest stars that have appeared on "Will and Grace" and I want you each to give an opinion about them. Bobby Cannavale.

ERIC: Oh him, of course he's great and we're grateful for having some time to work with him.

DEBRA: Yes, he's been on such demand ever since he came on the show, I think it got him a lot of publicity and now he's doing his own thing.

IRENE: I never worked with him last season but you know he's a great guy I really enjoyed having him as a second TV dad.

SEAN: Ugh I miss him. He was great, he was kind, he changed the perspective of show like reassuring the audience that Will can carry on a serious relationship and well…..still gay. (Laughs)

MEGAN: Yeah I agree with what Sean said, he changed the show in a good way and it was great working with him the time we had him.

N: Ed Burns.

ERIC: Oh well he's new, not only that, he's pretty famous and he plays a very likeable character, supposedly with no flaws…..

DEBRA: He's a really good kisser.

N: Really?

DEBRA: (Nods and gives a crooked smile)

N: (Laughs)

IRENE: Well I only had one scene with him, and he's really sweet offstage. I don't know if my character is supposed to like him though (thinks) but yeah I think he's a cross of Ed Norton and Matthew Perry, acting and look-wise, just brilliant.

SEAN: He hasn't done a lot of comedic roles and a lot of our guest stars are like that, they want their first comedic experience on Will and Grace because it's, you know, it's smart.

MEGAN: (Laughs to herself) I hate being last, everything's been said, I don't know. He's doing a good job.

N: Dan Futterman

ERIC: I'll let Megan go first.

MEGAN: (Laughs) Thanks uh…..we only had one episode with him back and he didn't get a lot of camera time but supposedly his character, Barry, had evolved into a more "efficient" I guess is the word for it, gay man.

N: Ok I want Irene's opinion on Eva Mendez.

IRENE: Oh my god, is that "Frankie"?

SEAN: (Laughs) Yes it is.

IRENE: Yeah I love her!

ALL: (Laughs a little)

IRENE: No seriously, I love the character Frankie, she was like you know, trying to take Irene's place as Jack's second hag and me and her get into a cat fight a fight that Irene and Karen usually get in, verbally.

SEAN: Funniest story, in the scene where Irene and Frankie fight.

IRENE: Oh gosh….. (head falls in hands)

SEAN: She got really carried away that it was scary.

N: We got that blooper.

IRENE: Really?

N: Don't you turn red now…..

IRENE: Ok (closes her eyes)

N: None of that either. Roll clip.

Episode 4: Secrets on Apartments.

JACK: (Comes out dressed and sees Frankie and Irene fighting on the floor)

IRENE: (Pulling Frankie's hair) You little b-

FRANKIE: (Slaps her)

IRENE: Ah! (Sits on her and bites her arm)

JAMES BURROWS: Whoa, whoa cut.

IRENE: (Stands up)

JAMES BURROWS: We cut that part out.

IRENE: What?

JAMES BURROWS: We cut out that part remember, sweetie?

EVERYONE: (Laughs)

IRENE: (Hugs Sean and helps Eva up) I am so sorry.

EVA: (Stands laughing)

JAMES BURROWS: You ok?

EVA: Look at my arm. (Shows the camera teeth marks) Its acting, Irene, don't really do it.

IRENE: Sorry! (Winces)

EVA: Oh.

JAMES BURROWS: Ready?

EVA: (Starts laughing again) I'm getting beaten up by a 17 year old!

N: So Irene, you're 18 now? What's it like to play someone older?

IRENE: It's definitely harder than it is to play a character who's younger because you have already past that stage in life so you know how to act it. With Irene, I am just guessing all the time and observe, she knows this, Debra off camera.

DEBRA: One time I saw her staring at me across the room, while I was eating a sandwich and taking notes.

ALL: (Laughs)

IRENE: (Shrugs) well like, since my character is 21 the writers and directors wants me to drink wine, when others are, drink alcohol, when they are, to make it more believable and make Irene look like more into the group.

N: In one episode you had like martini.

IRENE: The red lobster episode.

N: Yeah, what was really in it?

IRENE: Water. (Laughs) It was dirty right? I think they added lime to it. To make it more smoky and with the olives it tasted weird.

N: We got a clip of you taking a sip too.

Episode 10: Queer Eye for Karen's Will.

IRENE: Am I supposed to take a drink?

JAMES BURROWS: I'm sorry?

IRENE: Do I take a sip, saying this line?

JAMES BURROWS: Yeah.

MEGAN: No, not that one, Irene, that one's mine it's real.

IRENE: (Laughs)

MEGAN: This one's yours….. (hands her a glass)

SEAN & DEBRA: (Hands her theirs and switch them around)

IRENE: Don't do that to me!

MEGAN: (Laughs) Ok, ok it's this one.

IRENE: (Drinks it) Yeah that's mine.

SEAN: Really? Or is it a real one and you want to keep drinking?

(They look at each other for a long time)

IRENE: I don't know anymore. (Laughs)

N: What was it like to work with Chad Michael Murray?

IRENE: Oh yeah he played James, I wasn't into the whole Irene-James relationship but Chad really worked hard to do our dance routine and at the last minute, the decided to cut it out and have only Eric and Debra dance because they are good at it and yeah.

N: I have a couple of mess ups in that episode.

Episode 11: Ballroom Rumble

IRENE: Is it skin colored lined with daisies?

GRACE: Yeah.

IRENE: (Holds her hand out)

DEBRA: (Tries to take it out) I can't get it off!

ERIC: (Looks inside her sleeve and sticks his finger in there to adjust something)

DEBRA: (Gets it out and it hits Eric's face)

EVERYONE: (Laughs)

DEBRA: I am so sorry.

ERIC: (Sighs) my wife's going to kill me.

DEBRA: (Laughs and goes back to Grace's bedroom)

JACK & KAREN: (Tripping everywhere, getting out)

WILL: (Grabbing Grace and dancing)

IRENE: (Starts running out but trips on the rug) Oh! (Falls)

ERIC: (Helps her up)

IRENE: (Pats him on the back and sits back down)

SEAN & MEGAN: (Running like "Jack" and "Karen" back in)

IRENE: (Laughs a little)

JACK: Karen (talks through the side of his mouth) I'm not going to let her know all I got, just a taste, a BIG taste so she thinks she's got the whole sh-(censored) what is the line? (Laughs a little) Ok I got it. This line makes absolute no sense to me.

GRACE: Yeah ok. (Runs and then trips on something and falls, grabbing Eric's leg for support, almost pantsing him.)

ERIC: (Holds his pants up) Wow that was close.

DEBRA: (Laughs) I wasn't ready to fall!

ERIC: (Helps her up) Ok ready?

N: So you just aired an episode featuring Ewan McGregor, what was that like?

IRENE: Oh wow, he was the one, excluding Eric, Debra, Sean, and Megan, that inspired me to be an actor he's fantastic! I mean everytime I have a scene with him and talk to him it's like, "Oh my god I am talking to Ewan McGregor."

ERIC: Wait I want to reenact Irene's reaction.

SEAN: Me too.

ERIC: Ok I'm Ewan, you be Irene.

SEAN: Ok.

ERIC: (Walks off, walks back on)

JACK: (Screaming) Oh my god Ewan McGregor! (Goes up and hugs him) Oh my god, I love you! I love you, I love you, I love you! You're the best. (Screams)

IRENE: (Laughs with her head down) just like Debra and Streisand.

DEBRA: Yeah you're not alone, hon.

Episode 19: Questionable Tootie Fruity

EWAN: (Comes in)

IRENE: Ewan McGregor! (Runs up and hugs him)

EWAN: Irene, Sean, Eric, Megan, and Debra!

(Group hug)

N: Ok now I want to know who's been your favorite guest star.

ERIC: Mine is a regular, Bobby.

DEBRA: I like Ed Burns, it's just because I had the most air time with him and our characters click.

IRENE: You already know mine, Ewan McGregor.

MEGAN: I like Michael McDonald and Alex Borestien. Both Mad TV stars and played unique characters on the show. Alex as Kimi, Michael as Jude. Both good episodes.

SEAN: I like the Rooster lady.

ERIC: Oh yeah her.

SEAN: She played Angela in Ballroom Rumble.

ERIC: It was hard because out of no where she'd crow or like do police sirens.

N: Ok well we're almost out of time, how about some hints on the finale.

SEAN: Well one things for sure, Irene is going to stick around until then.

N: Well we'll look forward to that. That's the end for this segment. Keep tuning in on Will and Grace.

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