Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Modern Family Daughter Sends Him to ‘Voicemail’

Jesse Tyler Ferguson he has nothing but his love Modern Family costars – even if his TV daughter, Aubrey Anderson-Emmonssometimes you leave him to study.

“I just called him the other day, and it went straight to voicemail,” Ferguson, 49, said to himself. Us Weekly of Anderson-Emmons, 17, while developing his collaboration with Tovala on their smart oven.

He joked that the silence was a clash of his thoughts. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, you sent me to voicemail!'” Ferguson continued. “I called him, he sent me to voicemail. He’s like, ‘Oh God, my TV dad is calling me.’

The actor noted that he met Anderson-Emmons when she was only 3 years old, so he still thinks of her as a little girl sometimes. “But, you know, he’s a different person now,” he admitted.

Ferguson played Mitchell Pritchett in the Modern Family 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020. Anderson-Emmons joined the cast in 2011 as Mitchell and husband Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) daughter, Lily Tucker-Pritchett.

Although Ferguson doesn’t like being sent to voicemail by his former costar, he said Us would like to reunite with Anderson-Emmons and the rest of the film’s cast.

“It’s been four or five years since we’ve been away from these actors, like, let’s just go in and see what happens after five years,” he said of his ideas for filming the movie. “Maybe Mitch and Cameron have moved on and he wants to see these characters together, ​​​​​​​so it could be some kind of family reunion.”

Ferguson added that he would “like to check in with Lily” and see how she behaves as a young person, who may be “on her way to college.”

As for the rest of the storyline, he felt it shouldn’t be “too different from the show.” Instead, Ferguson suggested that the movement could be a “deeper history of what happened in the last five years” and what children were “dealing with” at that time.

The script doesn’t really matter to Ferguson, who revealed that the close-knit cast “wanted to be together again.” We love each other very much.”

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If i Modern Family The cast is making a reunion that needs to be quick, according to Sofia Vergarawho played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett.

“We don’t have much time since then Ed [O’Neill] old,” Vergara, 52, joked during an appearance in January The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonreferring to her TV husband, who played Jay Pritchett.

Vergara later admitted that she doesn’t think they need to get together again. “I don’t know but it doesn’t seem right,” he added. “I feel like we need more time.”

Ferguson, on the other hand, told Us that Vergara’s comments about O’Neill, 78, prove just how close the cast became during their time on the sitcom.

“We like to tease each other a lot. We love, you know, we make fun of each other,” he explained. “Ed has a great sense of humor. He learned that. He said, ‘I can’t believe you said that.’ But also like Ed, he is the oldest. Chronologically, you are the one we are most concerned about.”

As fans and Ferguson alike wait for someone to light a Modern Family reunion, the actor keeps himself busy with other projects – one of which is to meet Tovala to promote their smart oven.

“I love Tovala. I am busy as I have two children,” she said Us of partnership. “I have this [‘Dinner’s on Me’] a podcast. I actually eat out on my podcast. So, sometimes I need to make meals for my family that I don’t eat with me on my podcast. I need to do something simple.”

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Ferguson explained that the device makes mealtime less stressful. “I am also a foodie. I don’t like to just put food in the microwave,” he said, noting that Tovala’s Smart Oven makes him feel more “involved” in cooking.

The Tovala Smart Oven allows customers to order pre-cooked meals to be served warm for easy home dinners and desserts.

“It can be healthy, or naughty, like, and their desserts are also delicious. So you know, I love that,” Ferguson said. “It gives me healthy food options when I want and more convenience to eat what I want, too [it] and it tastes amazing.”

For more information on Tovala’s Smart Oven, check out their website, tovala.com.

With reporting by Amanda Williams