Everyone in the family.
“Modern Family” star Eric Stonestreet is speaking out about the canceled spinoff.
During an Interview Graham BensingerThe 53-year-old Emmy-winning actor spoke about the ended spinoff, which followed Cameron (Stonestreet), his husband Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and their daughter Lily (Aubrey Anderson Emmons) as the family left California and moved to Missouri.
“I don't think it has any potential left,” Stonestreet said of the show.
“He had his chance. [Series co-creator] Chris Lloyd and some of the writers wrote a really great script that connected Jesse and I to our lives in Missouri, and they said, ‘No.’ They just said, ‘We don’t want to do it.’ ”
“Modern Family” aired on ABC for eight seasons from 2009 to 2020 for more than 200 episodes.
It features patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill), his second wife Gloria (Sofía Vergara), their adult children, Claire (Julie Bowen), Michelle (Ferguson), and their spouses and children, such as Claire's husband Phil (Ty Burrell), Claire and Phil's daughter Haley (Sarah Hyland), and Michelle's husband Cameron (Stonestreet).
“I love my character. I love the show. I love Jesse. We had a great working relationship, we had great chemistry,” Stonestreet said.
“I think Jesse and I felt that maybe they saw us as old people, or something, that we didn't feel worthy of continuing those characters. It felt a little hurtful. But people make business decisions.”
The spinoff show will follow Cam's dream of becoming a college football coach.
“I think it would have been a great success,” he said. “I don't think it wouldn't have been a success. Because you had a producer – who really cared a lot about making sure the show was great for such a long time – who was willing to do it.”
But, ABC didn’t want that.
He said, “We had the right people. It would have been great. If ABC had said 'Let's do it', I think we'd be working on it right now.”
Stonestreet, Joe Pediatric nurse Lindsay Schweitzer is engagedHe said he doesn't expect the spinoff to happen yet.
“I don't know how it works anymore, because it's been so long,” he said.
“I wish we could do a Christmas special.”
During the same interview Stonestreet also said Talked about relocating to Kansas City.
Comparing it to Los Angeles, he said, “It highlights all the bullshit in our business. It just amplifies it. Because I'm here, I'm working with the people here, and I'm going into the store and having all these authentic, real moments, and then I go to Hollywood, and you miss some of the people you work with.”
