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The world might by no means learn about Cameron and Mitch’s life after “Fashionable Household.
The person who performed Cameron, Eric Stonestreet, shared his disappointment a few sitcom spinoff that by no means got here to be in a current interview with Graham Bensinger.
The present would have centered on the lives of the married couple performed by Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, in addition to their daughter, Lily, performed by Aubrey Anderson Emmons after they moved to Missouri from California.
Stonestreet was undoubtedly all the way down to do it when the collection was pitched.
“They’d their probability. [‘Modern Family’ co-creator] Chris Lloyd and a few the writers wrote a extremely nice script that spun Jesse and I off in our life in Missouri,” he mentioned. “They usually mentioned, ‘No.’ They only mentioned, ‘We don’t wish to do it.’”
The choice led to some stress, Stonestreet mentioned, given his affection for “Fashionable Household.”
“I like my character. I like the present,” he mentioned. “I like Jesse. We had an awesome working relationship. We had superb chemistry.”
He mentioned he and Ferguson “perhaps felt like they considered us because the outdated guys, or one thing like that, that didn’t appear worthy of protecting these characters going.”
“It felt a little bit hurtful,” Stonestreet added. “However folks make enterprise selections.”
The sequel would have centered on the household, which added a child boy, relocating to the midwest so Cam might pursue his dream of being a school soccer coach. It was a premise Stonestreet mentioned he thought would have been a “slam dunk.”
“We had the precise folks in place,” he mentioned. “It could have been nice. If ABC would have mentioned ‘Let’s do it,’ I feel we’d be on proper now.”
“Fashionable Household” aired for 11 seasons between 2009 and 2020. It gained 22 Primetime Emmy Awards throughout its run.