Eric McCormack’s former manager once told him to lose weight

He’s a bit too thin now.

What an oinker

Hollywood is all about being thin, period.

R3 Hollywood is all about being so thin your period stops.

It must have haunted him. He looked emaciated during the first season of W&G. I thought they were going to write HIV+ into the script.

He looked emaciated during the revival.

At that age, you need a little meat on your bones.

He looked short, sweaty, and bloated in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

I hope he continues to starve his feelings.

he looks much better now than he did when he was younger.

He's never been an appealing actor, though. I always found Will Truman unpleasant on "Will & Grace"--he came across as homophobic and unpleasant. I could never figure out why Grace liked him.

I wonder if Will’s OCD tendencies and control issues are shared by Eric. A lot of sitcom characters are very close to the actor because the writers write to the actor’s strengths as the show goes on. Seeing how thin he was during the reboot I can easily imagine Eric having some sort of eating disorder. Eric/Will have that OCD personality that would count every calorie.

I like Eric. He’s easy on the eye, inoffensive, charming, a decent actor but he’s also one of those actors that I look at and wonder what was so special that they made it from another country which is very hard to do. There’s hundreds of actors just as conventionally attractive and bland and serviceable so what was it that made people say get that Canadian guy, we’ll sponsor a visa, nobody else can do this but him......Maybe he has tremendous “it factor” in person.

He really has kept his looks - they've changed, but he still looks great, just in a different way, and still sexy as fuck. I'd get on my knees for that

He is still very handsome. Poor thing probably hasn't had a cheeseburger since 1998 when she told him this.

R11 - exactly. I always marveled at his shape on Will and Grace. He was sooo thin but had these great shoulders. It seemed like a Ken doll body.

Everyone on TV is told to lose weight. You would be shocked at how 'tiny' most male and female TV and movie actors are in real life.

According to online sources, EM is 5'11"..... which I don't believe for a moment. I always thought he was a bit shorter than average. You can tell in relation to other male actors in proximity.

So I'm guessing around 5'8" or 5'9".

I once had a manager tell me to lose weight. I ate her.

[quote]I always marveled at his shape on Will and Grace. He was sooo thin but had these great shoulders. It seemed like a Ken doll body.

Yeah I remember the clothes always fit him so perfectly. He had added pressure because Im sure the executives wanted him to embody the perfect elegant type gay with a waif body.

Ginch-like creature!

Losing another thirty-five wouldn't hurt to start.

R7 Eric was never on Buffy.

I get total eating disorder vibe. That anecdote is a version of coming out as having one.

The real-life Will (a successful, openly gay, middle-aged lawyer in NYC) would have had a much more buff body: big, defined arms, chest, etc. Not waif-like. Those dudes may work ridiculous hours but they also live in the weight room.

McCormack doesn't quite fit the bill.

Just saying.

On a series with Karen, who has unlimited funds and only eats drugs, and Jack, who is Jack, you’re criticizing Eric McCormack for not being true to life enough?