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Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet couldn’t stop giggling when recalling a particular fail on the Modern Family set
The actors, who played husbands Mitchell and Cameron, recalled the hysterical moment and the resulting “face print” on the glass
“We watched it coming from a mile away, and didn’t do anything about it!” Stonestreet admitted through laughter
Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet are reminiscing on the silliest moment in Modern Family filming history.
Ferguson, 50, recently welcomed Stonestreet to his Dinner’s On Me podcast, where the pair — who played spouses Mitchell Pritchett and Cameron Tucker on the beloved series — recalled their most hilarious experiences behind the scenes of the sitcom.
While discussing what they “missed most about doing the show,” the pair reflected on a hysterical moment involving the show’s casting director, Jeff Greenberg.
“Craft service. Jeff Greenberg walking into the glass that day. It’s the greatest moment ever,” Stonestreet said on the Jan. 13 episode.
“We taped off his face mark, remember? His face mark lived that whole season,” the 54-year-old actor added.
Upon mention of the on-set gaffe, Ferguson replied through giggles, “I can’t believe that happened. He just walked right towards us.”
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Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
According to the pair of actors, while filming season 3, Greenberg walked straight into a glass wall, triggering a fit of laughter from the whole cast and crew.
Ferguson explained that the moment came about because the show’s craft service area, which is often in a corner out of the way, was built in “this tiny little glass box in the middle of the stage.”
The area featured a kitchen, a coffee machine and a space for people to sit and have a meal, but was essentially “a glass box with doors and windows.”
One day, the whole cast was eating breakfast inside the box when their “brilliant casting director came strutting across the way, walking towards us,” Ferguson recalled, “and face planted into the glass.”
“And we watched it coming from a mile away, and didn’t do anything about it!” Stonestreet admitted through laughter.
He added, “No better person could have walked into that glass in that moment than Jeff.”
The cast instantly knew the comical mishap would be a core memory. “His face print was still on the glass, so we blue-taped his face print, and it just lived in memoriam for months,” Stonestreet said.
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Jeff Greenberg.
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Ferguson and Stonestreet played Mitchell and Cameron for all 11 seasons of the popular sitcom, which ran from 2009 to 2020.
The ABC series also starred Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Sarah Hyland, Nolan Gould, Sofía Vergara, Ed O’Neill, Ariel Winter, Rico Rodriguez and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons.
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