The whole family.
“Modern Family” star Eric Stonestreet has spoken out about the canceled spinoff.
In a recent interview Graham BensingerThe 53-year-old Emmy-winning actor was speaking about the canceled spinoff show, which would have followed Cameron (Stonestreet), her husband Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and their daughter Lily (Aubrey Anderson Emmons) after the family left California for Missouri.
“I don't think that's a possibility anymore,” Stonestreet said of the show.
“They had their chances. [Series co-creator] Chris Lloyd and a couple of other writers had written a great script that would have brought Jesse and me into this life in Missouri, and they said, no. We just didn't want to do it.”
“Modern Family” originally aired on ABC from 2009 to 2020, with more than 200 episodes across eight seasons.
The film follows patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill), his second wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara), his adult children Claire (Julie Bowen) and Mitchell (Ferguson), and their spouses and children, Claire's husband Phil (Ty Burrell), Claire and Phil's daughter Jaylee (Sarah Hyland), and Mitchell's husband Cameron (Stonestreet).
“I love my character. I love the show. I love Jesse. We had a great working relationship and great chemistry,” Stonestreet said.
“I think Jesse and I felt like we were considered too old or something and not worthy of continuing with those characters. It hurt us a little bit. But business decisions are made by human beings.”
The spinoff show would have followed Cam as he pursues his dream of becoming a college football coach.
“I think it was a huge success,” he said, “and I don't think it wasn't a success because one of the creators who's been trying to do it for a long time and really cared about making sure this show was great was willing to do it.”
But ABC didn't want that.
“They had the right people in place. It would have been great. If ABC had said, 'Let's do it,' we'd be on the air by now,” he said.
Stone Street is He is engaged to pediatric nurse Lindsay Schweitzer.said a spinoff is not yet on the horizon.
“It's been so long that I don't know how it works anymore,” he said.
“I wish they'd do a Christmas special.”
During the same interview, Stonestreet also spoke about a move to Kansas City.
Comparing it to Los Angeles, he said, “…it brings out all the sleaze in our business. It highlights it, because I'm here, I'm dealing with the people here, I'm going into the stores, I'm experiencing raw, real moments, and then when I go to Hollywood, I'm reminded of the type of people I deal with.”
