The cast of the jukebox musical pushed him way too far outside his comfort zone, where spookiness is concerned, the star behind Modern Family’s beloved Mitchell Pritchett recently reminisced.<\/p>\n
“One year when Modern Family had just started, [for] some reason, I got invited with the whole cast of Glee, we were on a haunted hayride,” he told Somebody Somewhere star Jeff Hiller on Tuesday’s episode of his Dinner’s On Me<\/a> podcast. “I was really traumatized, and they all wanted to do the corn maze after that,” Ferguson shared. “The haunted hayride was enough, but you’re in a vessel that moves. So I felt protected and I stayed in the center of the hayride. People come out from the field with chains. I was really traumatized.”<\/p>\n The annual Haunted Hayride<\/a> is a Los Angeles institution, an open-air, Halloween-season bazaar of themed attractions and events. But the central draw is the titular hayride \u2014 a slow, slalom in the flatbed of a hay truck through a succession of classic horror zones, from a carnival to an asylum to a graveyard. Actors in gruesome costumes, wielding horrifying implements, and shouting terrifying curses, charge the hay truck to scare passengers.<\/p>\n After all that, the young cast of Glee still wanted to push their luck in the corn maze.<\/p>\n “You’re not protected. They give you a lantern, and they’re like, ‘go,'” Ferguson explained. “I was like, ‘I can’t do it. I can’t do it.’ And [Justin Mikita, Ferguson’s husband] was like, ‘Just come on, it’s fine.’ Literally, the cast of Glee is all like, ‘Let’s go.’ And I started to cry.”<\/p>\n Ferguson said there were “tears in my eyes” as he walked back to his car. From the safe distance of 2026 (Modern Family and Glee both premiered in 2009), he and Hiller both were able to laugh about the experience now.<\/p>\n
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