Smash: Scoop on Sean Hayes' role in season 2 from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on Smash from this week's (Posted on 1/8/13) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Any more Smash scoop other than what was revealed in your preview story about the first two episodes? —JC
Ausiello: Did you hear about the Will & Grace reunion that wasn’t? Because although Sean Hayes will be guest-starring on Smash, it turns out he doesn’t share a single scene with former NBC sitcom castmate Debra Messing. Was new Smash boss Josh Safran worried that putting the two together would be too on the nose? “It wasn’t so much that, but that it wouldn’t have been organic to do it,” he explains to TVLine. With Hayes playing the lead of another Broadway show, “It would have looked like just a stunt because [his and Julia's] storylines are not related at all. I felt like the audience would have known that we were forcing something.”

Link to the full article:‘Smash’ Season 2 Spoilers — Plus: Scoop on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ in Ask Ausiello - TVLine