Sofia Vergara has some long-term plans when it comes to the future Modern family.
Four years after the end of the beloved series, the actress said she would “die” to return to the set with her fictional family. However, she knows it’s still too early for the Pritchett, Dunphy and Tucker families to return. But Vergara, 52, has been constantly joking with her former on-screen husband, Ed O’Neill, about a possible sequel to the series, which ran for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020.
Vergara said Diversity that after seeing O’Neill, 78, d Trimmedshe told him, “You look f—ing old,” before revealing that his age was a talking point for the show.
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“I always joke with him, ‘Ed, don’t die. Because if we’re doing a sequel, it’s going to take a while, and you’re the oldest of us. You can’t be dead!'” Vergara said of teasing the actor who played Jay Pritchett, the husband of her character Gloria Pritchett.
As for that Griselda star would like the cast to do if they all got back together, she suggested a “TV movie,” telling the outlet, “It would be a lot of fun.”
Sofía Vergara as Gloria, Ed O’Neill as Jay Pritchett in ‘Modern Family’.
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Her co-star Sarah Hyland similarly expressed interest in a potential reboot of the series, which starred Haley Dunphy, telling PEOPLE in June, “I love the cast with all my heart and soul… I would love to come back with everyone.”
However, she noted that the story will influence whether or not she joins. “I’m thinking creatively for myself, I’d like to know what’s going on with Haley. I want to see her career back and those things and her creativity, and I want her to be able to do both.”
Hyland, 33, added that she would like to see her character do what her on-screen mother Claire (Julie Bowen) “set out to do and did as an amazing mother as well as a businesswoman and executive.”
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Last November, Vergara gathered the cast for their first reunion since the series ended in 2020, and everyone except Ty Burrell was in attendance.
“It was very special,” Vergara told PEOPLE afterward. “The day before I came from the Bahamas and today I had this [event]so I’m exhausted, but it was worth it.”
She said it’s “the first time we’ve all seen each other in almost four years,” which makes it “very exciting for all of us.”
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Ed O’neill, Sofia Vergara, Ariel Winter, Sarah Hyland, Rico Rodriguez, Nolan Gould, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet in ‘Modern Family’.
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Vergara, O’Neill, Bowen, Hyland, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ariel Winter, Rico Rodriguez, Nolan Gould and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons were in attendance, as were showrunners Chris Lloyd and Steve Levitan, who Stonestreet joked were acting “two dads”.
“It’s amazing, because we’re always connected,” Vergara added. “Even though we haven’t seen each other in so long, it felt like we just left the set in 2020.”
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