‘TV directors wanted to give me bigger breasts’: Debra Messing refused to wear ‘chicken breasts’ in ‘Will & Grace’ | television

Debra Messing played Grace Adler on the popular American sitcom Will & Grace for eleven seasons. Now she reveals that her makers suggested she “breast fillers” to make her breasts look bigger. “For the first fitting, they brought in ‘chicken breasts’ to enlarge my breasts,” Messing told the audience at a panel discussion at the Paley Media Center in New York. “I wasn’t a fan of the idea of ​​it all. I was like, You know what? I don’t need that.”

At some point, I decided to stop wearing them. I said: I don’t want to wear it. I actually like the idea of ​​her being completely flat chested. I think there is humor in that. We shot three episodes and then I was called into the executive producer’s office. The NBC boss said, “What happened to her breasts?” The series was about gay men and I had to be the woman.” Eventually, the bosses relented and the “Will & Grace” writers often joked about Messing’s flat-chested body throughout the series.

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This wasn’t the first time Messing had been asked to wear “chicken strips.” In a 2018 interview with Sharon Stone’s “Actors on Actors” series for Variety, Messing said early in her career, she asked another network executive to don chicken breasts in her first sitcom. “I was shocked. I was new to this industry and I thought I couldn’t say no.”

Will & Grace initially ran for eight seasons – from 1998 to 2006 – and then returned for three more seasons in 2017.

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