The longest show I've ever done was four and a half years, so I can only imagine what ending an eight year show is like.
If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success.
Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.
You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.
The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.
And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.
My tenure has been abnormally long for the average Disney kid - most only last three or four years.
That was the only trepidation I had about 'Will & Grace.' It had nothing to do with the sexuality of the character. It was more, 'This could be the next 7 to 10 years of my life.'
