Eric McCormack knows what he is looking for when it comes to starring in another sitcom after Will & Grace.
The 61-year-old actor told PEOPLE on the red carpet at the premiere of his upcoming MGM+ thrilled series, Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue, on Feb. 20 in Los Angeles that he has been doing “a lot more drama” recently.
“That’s where I got my start so I love finding my way back there,” he added.
When asked if he would return to the world of comedy, McCormack — who played Will Truman on Will & Grace — acknowledged, “It’s not a sitcom world anymore, certainly not before the camera.”
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“They’re few and far between,” he added of sitcoms. “But yeah, there is a feeling of, ‘Huh, if I’m going to do that again it’s going to have to be pretty great.’”
McCormack starred alongside Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally for eight seasons on NBC from 1998 to 2006, then returned to primetime for three more seasons from 2017 to 2020.
As for what drew McCormack to Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue, he explained, “Anthony Horowitz is just a really great mystery writer. The characters were really fascinating.”
“My character is really hard to like for a while,” he adds. “He’s a bit of an a–hole. We’ll discover his soft side later. We’ll discover his inner hero, but I think at first he’s hard to figure out.”
The show follows nine strangers who survived a plane crash in the Mexican jungle. “But then, one after another, they begin to die in strange and violent ways and very soon they begin to realize that, for some inexplicable reason, somebody wants them dead,” according to an official synopsis.
“As the story unfolds in flashback, we meet the survivors as they fight against the heat, a shortage of supplies, the many dangers of the jungle – and each other,” the description continues. “The setting becomes increasingly tense and claustrophobic until finally the identity of the killer and the truth are revealed.”
The series marks one of McCormack’s first major TV roles since starring on Will & Grace, but his former costar Messing previously told PEOPLE that she could see the show returning in the future.
“The only way that I could see another iteration is if it was like Golden Girls in Boca Raton,” she teased in Aug. 2022. “So I think we’re going to have to wait another 30 years. So we can talk again in 30 years and see where we’re at. Until then, just watch reruns.”
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Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue premieres Sunday, March 2, at 9 p.m. ET on MGM+. Will & Grace is available to stream on Hulu.
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