Sofia Vergara wants a Modern Family reboot – as she jokes she has asked co-star Ed O’Neill, 78, to ‘not DIE’ before they make it
Sofia Vergara is getting a Modern Family reboot.
The 52-year-old Colombian-born actress said Variety that she thinks a one-off TV movie would be perfect.
“I would die to be on that set,” the brunette beauty said during her cover story focusing on Griselda. “It would be so much fun. A TV movie maybe?”
And the actress jokes about it with her 78-year-old co-star Ed O’Neill.
After seeing him as LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling on the series Clipped, she told him, “You look f***ing old.”
“I always joke with him,” she said, adding that she told him, “Ed, don’t die. Because if we do the sequel, it’s going to be a while, and you’re the oldest one of us. You can’t be dead!”
Sofia Vergara is ready for a Modern Family reboot. The 52-year-old Colombian-born actress told Variety that she thinks a one-off TV movie would be perfect. “I would die to be on that set,” the brunette beauty said during her cover story focusing on Griselda
“It would be so much fun. A TV movie maybe?” And the actress has a running joke about it with her 78-year-old co-star Ed O’Neill
Modern Family ran for 11 seasons, from September 23, 2009 to April 8, 2020.
It revolved around three different families living in Los Angeles, connected through patriarch Jay Pritchett (O’Neill) and his two children, Claire (Bowen) and Mitchell (Ferguson).
The cast was seen together at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in February.
Sofia shared the stage with O’Neill, Ty Burrell, Julie Bowen, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
At one point, Vergara was promoting her Netflix series Griselda, but was called out when Stonestreet said, “Jesse, pay up. I told you she’d say it in the first 10 seconds.”
It all started when they presented the award, which they had won four times before with their ABC show. Burrell looked back on their series and said, “This really brings back memories.”
“Do you miss it sometimes?” Burrell asked his former teammates.
And the actress has a running joke about it with her 78-year-old co-star Ed O’Neill. “I always joke with him,” she said, adding that she tells him, “Ed, don’t die. Because if we do the sequel, it’s going to be a while, and you’re the oldest one of us. You can’t be dead!”
His daughter Bowen replied, “Oh, yes, but of course we had a great time, 11 seasons, 250 episodes. Come on.”
She was distracted by Gosling, giggling and pointing at him in the crowd: “It’s Ryan Gosling. Sorry,” before catching her train of thought, “250 episodes, it never happens.”
“It happened to me twice,” replied O’Neill, who played Al Bundy on the 1987-97 Fox comedy Married…With Children.
The cast of Modern Family reunites at the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards; (L-R) Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Ed O’Neill, Vergara, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson
“Is it too early to talk about a reboot?” Ferguson asked, before adding: “They made me park a mile away.”
“Is it too early to talk about a reboot?” Ferguson asked, before adding: “They made me park a mile away.”
Bowen then brought up Ferguson’s Broadway career, reminding him that he had always said he wanted to get back to his roots.
“That’s just something actors without hit shows say, okay? There’s a reason Tony Award is the last letter of EGOT.”
The cast seemed to have a great time at the SAG Awards
Sofia made the rounds with all her former co-stars
As the audience laughed, he continued, taking a jab at the Gilded Age series: “I know! I know! I’m just kidding, Gilded Age cast. I’m just kidding.”
In 2022, Ferguson confirmed that a script had been written for a planned spinoff, but ABC ultimately scrapped the show.
“The script is there and it’s very good,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “So, you know, who knows? If someone wants to produce it, maybe.”
The cast of Modern Family, including Sarah Hyland, Ariel Winter, Nolan Gould, Rico Rodriguez, Eric and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons and co-creators Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, also reunited for dinner in November.