\u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of downtime on set. For me, it was about having conversations and communicating with kids in a way that wasn\u2019t patronising, but also getting to know kids as people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt taught me a lot about meeting her where she was at… communicating with them through questions and just being open to their questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gave me a good practice run at that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferguson has yet to introduce Beckett and Sully to Modern Family, which ran on ABC from 2009 until 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know that I was on TV, but they have never seen Modern Family.\u201d<\/p>\n
But in 2024, the tots experienced their dad\u2019s fame when he, Stonestreet, Sofia Vergara (Gloria Delgado-Pritchett), Ed O\u2019Neill (Jay Pritchett), Julie Bowen (Claire Dunphy) and Ty Burrell (Phil Dunphy) reunited at the SAG Awards to present the Ensemble in a Comedy Series category, which FX\u2019s The Bear won.<\/p>\n
Ferguson said: \u201cA few years ago, the full adult cast of Modern Family presented at the SAG Awards. I got all dressed up in my suit, and they said goodnight to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cJustin let them stay up and watch. So they saw me on television in the exact same suit I had just left the house in. It was probably weird and abstract for them, but it wasn\u2019t like they thought I was inside the TV.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew that something was happening elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ferguson is still close with his Modern Family co-stars.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I think it was just a lucky moment in time that we all came together. They always talk about lightning in a bottle, and that\u2019s truly what it felt like.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re with a group of people for 11 years, there\u2019s going to be ups and downs, but the valleys were just never deep enough to sever bonds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are reasons that you love people and reasons that people drive you crazy, but you still love them immensely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of downtime on set. For me, it was about having conversations and communicating with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6726,430,49325,156,2109,29400,5820,9832,16718,2537,24350,111,139,69,38639,205,312,24465],"class_list":["post-469752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-become","tag-celebrities","tag-dad","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-fatherhood","tag-ferguson","tag-helped","tag-him","tag-jesse","tag-modern","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prepared","tag-role","tag-says","tag-tyler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}