Nolan Gould looks back on his best memories from Modern family set.
The actor, 25, reunited with his co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson on his Dinner is on me podcast reminiscing about their time starring on the hit ABC sitcom that ran for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020.
On the Sept. 17 episode of the podcast, Gould recalled once having a Nerf fight with Bryan Cranston, who was guest directing at the time.
Nolan Gould and Bryan Cranston on the set of ‘Modern Family’.
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“Remember the rubber band gun wars we used to have on sets? [The] The nerve weapon wars we would have on the sets when we finished filming on them,” Gould asked Ferguson. “[My] the crowning achievement was getting Bryan Cranston to do it.”
He then explained that Cranston was on set to direct and “one day, I don’t know how we did it, we invited him to come play Nerf guns with us.”
Gould continued, “And so we have photographs of us armed to the teeth with these things, next to Walter White himself.”
The podcast host shared that he Breaking Bad the actor was a guest on the podcast and shared “his side of the story,” in which he said, “the real sign that the cast accepted him was that the kids wanted to hang out with him.”
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Eric Stonestreet and Bryan Cranston on the set of ‘Modern Family’.
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Cranston directed two episodes Modern family: “Election Day” Season 3 in 2012 and “The Old Man and the Tree” Season 5 in 2013.
It appears that the Nerf gun war happened during Cranston’s first try as Gould’s co-star Rico Rodriguez posted their tweet in February 2012 with the caption, “We just dominated our Modern Family game of nerf war! My team included @Nolan_Gould and @BryanCranston . ”
The tweet included a photo of the trio posing with their toy guns.
At a panel at The Paley Center for Media that year, Julie Bowen, who played Gould’s on-screen mother on the show, opened up about her experience on set with Cranston because she’s big Breaking Bad fan. “It was about a solid day and a half on set before I stopped seeing Walter White and was terrified,” she joked.
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In the second part of the podcast episode, Gould said that his experience as a child actor made it difficult for him to adjust to adult life.
“I was about 21 at the time and I had a problem with my shoulder,” he said. “I thought I wasn’t going to re-apply to film school and it was like I never left. … It closed a lot of doors to a kind of ‘traditional lifestyle’. … It’s hard for me to connect with people about the things that everybody’s been through, like high school?”
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