Jesse Tyler Ferguson Spills The Wildest ‘Modern Family’ Set Story

“Trendy Household” could also be lengthy over, however Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet are proving the present’s funniest moments didn’t at all times occur on digital camera. Ferguson not too long ago welcomed Stonestreet on his “Dinner’s On Me” podcast, and the longtime TV spouses took a visit down reminiscence lane, revisiting what they are saying is likely one of the most ridiculous moments within the present’s filming historical past. The pair, who performed Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker for all 11 seasons, had been discussing what they “missed most about doing the present” when their dialog landed on a behind-the-scenes incident so memorable it apparently lived on… actually.

Whereas reflecting on their favourite reminiscences from set, Stonestreet instantly knew what topped the record. “Craft service. Jeff Greenberg strolling into the glass that day. It is the best second ever,” Stonestreet mentioned on the episode.

The “Jeff” in query was the present’s casting director, Jeff Greenberg, and in keeping with each actors, his unintentional collision with a glass wall grew to become on the spot legend among the many forged and crew. “We taped off his face mark, bear in mind? His face mark lived that entire season,” the 54-year-old actor added.

That single element alone had Ferguson spiraling. Upon point out of the on-set gaffe, Ferguson replied by giggles, “I can not imagine that occurred. He simply walked proper in direction of us.”

In response to Ferguson, the one purpose the second was even attainable was as a result of the present’s craft service space was positioned in essentially the most chaotic location conceivable. Ferguson defined that the second took place as a result of the present’s craft service space, which is commonly in a nook out of the way in which, was inbuilt “this tiny little glass field in the course of the stage.”

The “field” wasn’t a small partition both, it was basically a totally clear room. The world featured a kitchen, a espresso machine and an area for individuals to take a seat and have a meal however was basically “a glass field with doorways and home windows.” And someday, the entire forged was consuming breakfast contained in the field when their “sensible casting director got here strutting throughout the way in which, strolling in direction of us,” Ferguson recalled, “and face planted into the glass.”

The funniest half? They are saying it wasn’t a sudden shock. It was slow-motion comedy. “And we watched it coming from a mile away and did not do something about it!” Stonestreet admitted by laughter.

Should you’re questioning whether or not anybody felt responsible, Stonestreet made it clear the timing was simply too good. He added, “No higher particular person may have walked into that cup in that second than Jeff.”

“His face print was nonetheless on the glass, so we blue-taped his face print, and it simply lived in memoriam for months,” Stonestreet added.

Ferguson and Stonestreet performed Mitchell and Cameron for all 11 seasons of the ABC hit, which ran from 2009 to 2020 and have become one of the crucial profitable sitcoms of its period. Ferguson beforehand opened up about how “Trendy Household” has sparked loads of dialog about illustration, particularly when it got here to how Mitchell and Cameron had been portrayed.

“One of many pressures I’ve at all times felt, particularly after being on a present like ‘Trendy Household,’ the place I am portraying a homosexual man on a tv present on a community that’s as standard as it’s,” Ferguson mentioned on an episode of his podcast final 12 months. “You obtain criticism, as you do with something you do, however the criticism that I believe I heard the loudest was at all times from the homosexual group.”