will & grace.

There was a moment, about halfway through the making of his latest movie, when Topher Grace began to wonder whether his career had veered a bit off track. It wasn't that he didn't like In Good Company he thought the script was flat-out fantastic but something just felt wrong to the 26-year-old star. And then it hit him: For his role as an ambitious young advertising exec, he was logging lots of time in a back-lot boardroom. So every morning, he recalls with a grin, I'd get up, put on my suit, and go into the office. Finally I was like, 'What am I doing? Isn't this why I'm an actor? To not do this?'

Luckily, Topher's brief existential trauma was rendered worthwhile by the finished film. As his character is …