WILL & Grace show bosses explained who fathered Grace’s after ‘scheduling issue’ derailed the big reveal.
The popular sitcom wrapped up its revival run on NBC Thursday night, but still didn’t tell viewers who Grace’s (Debra Messing) baby daddy is.
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Show creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick shot down the theory viewers met the father earlier in the series – but it was one of Grace’s old lovers.
“It’s not one of those guys that you met [in episode two]. There’s a backstory that we’re not going to share. Something else happened,” Mutchnick told Deadline.
“It wasn’t an immaculate conception, but she did leave out one person she was with in Europe, and that’s who the father is.
“There was a scheduling issue that made it impossible to happen.”
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He added: “We had decided creatively that a past lover of hers was the father, and she saw him in Europe.”
This person could be Noah (David Schwimmer) or Dr Leo (Harry Connick), who she was supposed to have a daughter with in the original series’ scrapped finale.
Will and Grace bosses have admitted that the past 12 months of filming was not “easy” amid rumors of a nasty feud between Debra Messing and Megan Mullaly.
As the 61-year-old actress who plays Karen Walker in the hit NBC sitcom, missed a Zoom chat with the cast on Sirius XM amid rumors of a nasty feud with Debra, show bosses acknowledged something “happened on the set this year” but that they will always focus on the work.
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David Kohan and Max Mutchnick told Entertainment Weekly: “It’s just about the work. And so if we stay true to that, then we just keep you guys out of whatever happened on the set this year because it would have done nothing but get in the way of the stories that we wanted to tell.
Max, 54, added: “It was not an easy year, but the permanent legacy of the show is much more important to us than any temporary squabble that would take place on the stage.”
The sitcom was revived almost a decade after its last episode for its 11th and final series this year.
Megan didn’t appear in two of this year’s episodes, and fans noticed that she had stopped following Debra and her other co-stars on social media.
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