(December 2008) - PCM staff writer Julie Kissane spoke to actors Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) and Tom Cavanagh (Ed), stars of TNT's TRUST ME , a sharp and wonderfully creative drama series that centers on two best friends working as creative partners at a top-ranked Chicago ad agency. The pair was so entertaining to talk to and really seemed to have great chemistry with eachother over the phone, very silly! Check out our Q&A with the stars as they talk about their new show below:

J. Kissane: Well, it seems just over the phone that you guys have a really great chemistry. Do you feel that the chemistry between you guys and the other actors on the set is really conducive to the success of this show?

Eric McCormack: Totally. I don't think that - it's not like people have been lining up saying when is an advertising show going to come along? It's not about advertising. It's about - any appointment television it's either because you have to see the crime solved or you just want to hang with those characters.

And rarely does the twain meet. In this case it's about characters that connect, that are riffing off each other. I think there's a tremendous natural chemistry that is just the luck of the draw. And particularly with Tom and myself, we were both delighted to discover that we play off each other really, really well. And that's what we're hoping people show up for.

Julie Kissane: What do you each enjoy the most about the character that you play? What's your favorite part about the characters that each of you play?

Eric McCormack: Tell them about Conner Tom.

Tom Cavanagh: Oh I see. The favorite part about Mason is working with Conner because he is exceptional.

Eric McCormack: I'll speak for Mason thank you very much.

Tom Cavanagh: I'll speak for Mason if I can. And the favorite part I get of playing Conner - I don't have a favorite part. I like everything about it. I like the fact that he's irresponsible, petty, shallow, you know? Immature and brilliant.

That he can skate on a lot of things simply because he's decent at what he does but he actually is a decent friend. There's goodness there too in spite of all the womanizing and drinking and all that kind of stuff. So he feels like a very real - a lot of the guys I know, he's like a very real guy.

It's enjoyable playing him. He's exceptionally well written I think and that largely is the main thing. Any time you're doing episodic you're going to see and play the guy every day, you want it to be something that you like to do A, as a character that is well written.

And you know, these guys are sending, you know, Hunt and John have really earned their signing bonuses. Let me put it that way.

Eric McCormack: For sure. And for me, I like as much as it's fun to play characters that are a whole 180 from your own personality, there's a part of me that really likes bringing my sensibility and my sense of humor to it.

And I think Mason - I like that I get to play - I mean I had eight years of gay and it's nice to be able to have - to be able to play some of the marriage stuff. Already in eight episodes the stuff they've written for Sarah Clarke and I as husband and wife has mirrored my life in terms of some of the arguments we've had and some of the situations we've had.

It's fun to be able to bring your real life to those situations. And I like Mason's central dilemma; the idea of a guy that didn't really think he wanted any power suddenly having power and trying to figure out how to use that. As an actor who has produced I've had that exact dilemma where it's like one day I'm happy to be the boss and happy to be in control.

The next day I just want nothing to do with it. I just want to play like actors play and let somebody else make the decisions. So I think I relate to that.