When ?Will and Grace? premiered 20 years ago, Debra Messing was nervous. She shares, ?When we came on, we knew that we were trying to do something risky." Messing remembers thinking that audiences wouldn?t be ready for a sitcom featuring a gay lead and a gay supporting character, and that there was a good chance NBC would pull the show after three episodes. The Wrap reports her co-star Eric McCormack, on the other hand, was much more confident saying, "I think we?re going to be around for a long time.?