Will and Grace star Sean Hayes is preparing for life after the comedy series comes to an end -- for a second time -- later this TV season.

 

His first big solo endeavour: he plays a cisgender woman in Lazy Susan, a bumbling, stumbling Wisconsinite who leeches off of her brother and mother.

 

"I thought, 'What an incredible challenge to play a woman.' Like how scary and weird would that be if I played a woman?," Hayes said. "I wanted to do it because it's why we're actors, to embody people that we aren't, and sometimes feel uncomfortable doing that. I like that kind of uncomfortableness of a challenge."

 

Susan has existed in Hayes' mind since the early '90s. He even used her for an audition on Fox's sketch show In Living Color.