Everyone knows that Debra Messing has small breasts, including Messing herself. But NBC execs wanted her to have bigger ones.
At a panel discussion during the Tribeca Film Festival, the Will & Grace star disclosed that she wore "chicken cutlets," a form of silicone breast enhancer, when she shot the pilot of the show. But when the show was picked up by NBC, she didn't want to wear them anymore. After seeing the next couple of episodes, the president of NBC called the producers, wanting to know where her breasts went. They wanted her breasts back, but she refused to wear them.
I wonder if this is the reason for the running joke of her small breasts. There were a couple of episodes where she took out padding becasue they were bothering her, and another ("Das Boob") where she wore a water bra that broke in an art gallery. Now everyone can go watch their DVDs of the pilot episode and see how her breasts differ from later episodes.
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5-02-2007 @ 3:34PM
Jen said...
I was wondering what I was going to do tonight...
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5-02-2007 @ 4:05PM
jkmkay said...
She does what she has to do to get what she wants.Then developes principles once she gets it.Low ratings and those cutlets would have been right back on.
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5-02-2007 @ 4:05PM
David said...
I now get all the jokes! It's great! :)
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5-02-2007 @ 4:06PM
Jameson said...
This is a great post, because her modest breasts have always been the only thing I liked about Debra Messing. When she was in Celebrity, making out with Woody Allen, I remember thinking, "She's pretty cute, aside from her disfigured face and abhorrent comic timing."
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5-02-2007 @ 5:47PM
Marcus said...
Debra Messing was in "Hollywood Ending," not "Celebrity" (the one with Kenneth Branagh doing a very bad Woody Allen impersonation), but the idea's the same.
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5-02-2007 @ 7:36PM
Manny said...
Okay. I show up for an audition wearing a killer toupee -- the best in the world, absolutey undetectable. I get the part, playing a young Cary Grant in a tv biopic.
Then I show up bald, a hairline like Dr. Phil's. Do the producers have reason to be a bit ticked? Duh.
Deb is a pill.
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5-02-2007 @ 7:42PM
Randall said...
Gosh, I'm glad she ditched the cutlets. Otherwise, her smooching scenes with Harry Connick Jr. wouldn't have been nearly as homoerotic.
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5-02-2007 @ 7:47PM
RalphieBoy said...
The small breasts were perfect. I always figured her character was supposed to be a pre-op transexual.
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5-03-2007 @ 9:45AM
Erosia said...
Good for her for standing up for the flat-chested chicks!
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5-14-2007 @ 4:10PM
Allen said...
I miss her and the rest of the cast from "Will And Grace." That cast was filled with fun and laughter! Even though that Debra's breasts were small, she looks very hot!!
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