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Eric Stonestreet is opening up about the scrapped Modern Family spinoff. The 53-year-old actor could have starred in a Cam and Mitch spinoff, alongside co-star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, but the network passed on the idea. During a recent podcast appearance, Eric said it was hurtful when the show didn’t follow through, but he also teased some potentially exciting news. Keep reading to find out more… “[Modern Family co-creator] Chris Lloyd and a couple of the writers wrote a really great script that spun Jesse and I off in our life in Missouri, and they said, ‘No,’” Eric said on the podcast In Depth With Graham Bensinger. “They just said, ‘We don’t want to do it.’” “I think Jesse and I maybe felt like they thought of us as the old guys, or something like that, that didn’t seem worthy of keeping those characters going,” he added. “It felt a little hurtful. But people make business decisions.” While it didn’t happen, Eric says the spinoff could have been a “slam dunk.” “I don’t think it would have not been successful. Because you had one of the creators — who had really taken such great care of making sure that show was great for so long — willing to do it,” he said. On the pod, Eric also teased a potential reunion for the Modern Family cast. “I wish we’d do a Christmas special, and there’s been talk of that,” he said. Earlier this year, the adult stars of Modern Family reunited on stage at the 2024 SAG Awards. If you missed it, Eric‘s young co-star Nolan Gould recently revealed how the show changed his life as a child star.
