You can forget that flash forward in the Will & Grace series finale.

In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly the cast of the NBC sitcom revealed how the revival came to be and how they are going to explain the final episode that showed the characters drifting apart over the years.

"Why not say these two people are still living together?" said Eric McCormack. "They’ve had heartbreaks and they’re still together. And rather than making that something to be frowned on, let’s celebrate that."

How the reunion happened was a lot easier than anyone anticipated. Series co-creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan just asked.

“We gave them a date and brought everybody back together. Everybody pretty much to a person, say for about three people, they showed up," Mutchnick told EW. "We had everybody from the pilot do this. It was incredible. In front of and behind the camera, we had every single member.”

Megan Mullally, who plays the lovable lush, Karen, recalled how after the foursome filmed their election video last year, swaying voters to cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton, she got an idea:

“I was sitting on the couch in my house, reading the script and then I emailed Max and I said, ‘Why can’t we do this show again?’ And he emailed right back saying ‘We can!’”

The highly-anticipated revival starts production this week with a premiere date set for Sept. 28 on NBC. In other Will & Grace news, Mutchnick posted a picture of a script page on Twitter that hinted Grace (Debra Messing) was back on the market now after she had reunited with her ex-husband, Leo (Harry Connick Jr.), at the end of the series.

“I always thought about the four of us as being like an orchestra and each of us playing a different instrument and creating a musical together," Messing explained in the new interview. "Comedy is music. Once we started playing the music again, it was like, ‘Oh, I know how this song goes.’”

The new batch of episodes will reunite the original cast along with creators Mutchnick and David Kohan, who will serve as showrunners. James Burrows, who helmed every episode of the original run, will return to direct. NBC had originally ordered a 10-episode ninth season, but added two additional episodes—for an hourlong Christmas episode.

Will & Grace returns to NBC on Sept. 28.