Sarah Hyland reveals why she nearly missed out on career-changing ‘Modern Family’ role

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told BuzzFeed. “They were like, ‘She’s too old.'”“And at the time, my agent’s assistant fought for me to get in the room,” Hyland, 32, went on. “She was like, ‘She doesn’t look 18 years old, I promise you!

She looks very, very young!'”Hyland explained that the casting process was no walk in the park, and didn’t end up taping an audition until after a pre-reading.“So I went in and they pre-read me for the cast — like, they didn’t put my audition on the tape — and then he brought in the casting director.

The casting director, Jeff [Greenberg], had me read and then he was like, ‘Okay, now do it again, and now I’ll put it on tape.'”“They just were very much like, ‘She’s too old.

She’s 18.’ And then after that, I went to see the director and creators,” she added.Hyland said it was difficult for her and her younger co-stars, including Nolan Gould (Luke Dunphy), Ariel Winter (Alex Dunphy), Rico Rodriguez (Manny Delgado), and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons (Lily Tucker-Pritchett), to grow up “in front of millions of people.”“I was 18 when I started, I was there through all of my 20s,” she explained. “The kids were 10 or 11 when they started the show.