Sofía Vergara Wants to Revisit ‘Modern Family’ and Suggests Doing a ‘TV Movie’; She Jokes to Ed O’Neill: ‘Don’t Die’ Before
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Sofía Vergara declares Ed O’Neill isn’t allowed to die. Recently nominated for an Emmy for her lead role in Netflix’s crime drama “Griselda,” the Colombian star revealed in her Variety cover story that she is open to reprising her role as the hilarious trophy wife Gloria Delgado-Pritchett from ABC’s “Modern Family.” However, there’s one condition: Ed O’Neill, who played her husband Jay on the sitcom, must still be alive to join her. “I’d die to be on that set,” Vergara says. “It’d be so much fun.
A TV movie, maybe?” While she believes now is too soon to bring the Pritchett family back to screens, Vergara regularly jokes with O’Neill about the possibility.
After watching him in the FX miniseries “Clipped,” in which O’Neill portrayed former L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling, Vergara says she humorously told him, “You look fucking old.” “I always joke with him [saying], ‘Ed, don’t die because if we do the sequel, it will take some time, and you’re the oldest of us.
You can’t be dead,’” Vergara told Variety. The Emmys are not unfamiliar to Vergara. She received four consecutive noms in the supporting comedy actress category, from 2010 to 2013, for her role as Gloria in “Modern Family.” But despite her frequent nods, Vergara has yet to win a statuette — though many believe she deserved to win at least one Emmy during her time on the ABC sitcom. “That’s what I tell Julie Bowen,” Vergara jokes about her “Modern Family” co-star, who took home the Emmy twice for her role as Gloria’s step-daughter, Claire. “I was nominated four times.
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