By Iain Blair

Canadian actor Eric McCormack got his big break in 1998 playing Will Truman in NBC’s hit series “Will & Grace,” a role that earned him five Golden Globe nominations and the Emmy for Leading Actor in a Comedy. Now, McCormack – whose credits include “Lonesome Dove: The Outlaws Years,” “The Andromeda Strain,” and “The Music Man” on Broadway – stars in the new retro sci-fi thriller Alien Trespass.

In Alien Trespass, McCormack plays dual role: Ted Lewis, a nerdy science teacher, and the charismatic alien Urp who takes over Ted’s body. Did they pay him twice? “I guess they should have. Except that when I’m Urp, I’m inside Ted’s body, so I think they looked at it that way,” he laughs. This was the film debut for his director Bob Goodwin, who worked on “The X-Files.” Did that make him nervous? “No, because I’ve worked with a lot of directors who’ve done a lot of things and it doesn’t necessarily make them any better,” he told me. “And often a first-time director brings a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and desire. They’re not jaded.” I asked Eric about the actors strike, and he said the same thing so many people have told me – “I think it’d just be suicidal right now, with the economy the way it is.”

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