Julie Bowen would have 'happily died' on the set of 'Fashionable Household'

TO modern familyAnd the reunion seems more possible with both of them every day. Sofia Vergara and Julia Bowen already on board.

“I said, like every time they ask me questions about modern family meetings, movies, specials. I'm like, 'Yeah, where can I sign up?'” Bowen, 54, said exclusively. Us weekly while promoting its partnership with Hyundai for Teen Driver Safety Week to help parents and teens feel safe while driving.

“I would have happily died on that set, I would have just gotten old and drifted off into the afterlife on that set. Best, happiest job ever,” Bowen said. “It was in Los Angeles; There is nothing in Los Angeles, everything, the people I worked with, the proximity to my children. It was just joyful. Very hard, yes.”

The Emmy-winning actress played Claire Dunphy on the hit ABC comedy for 11 seasons alongside Vergara, 52, who played Fama Delgado-Pritchett.

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In an interview with Variety, Vergara said she also wants to visit again Modern family. “I would die to be on that set,” he said. “It would be very fun. Maybe a TV movie?

After Vergara saw Ed O'Neill (who played Jay Pritchett) in Cut, He told his former co-star, “You look so fucking old.” she also said Variety, “I always joke with him: 'Ed, don't die. Because if we do the sequel, it will take some time and you are the oldest of us. You can't be dead!'”

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When it comes to reuniting the rest of the cast, Bowen joked, “I don't know. I'm sure that. Personally, I think the cast would agree; I haven't done a survey.

She continued: “It's really up to our show creators, Levitan and Lloyd, how they feel about it. They are the ones who make that final decision. As much as I like to think that we are Fashionable Household, in reality the writers are a modern family and we are their voices.”

Bowen has made a great effort to try to take on different roles after his career. modern family, most recently appearing in the horror series. Hysteria! earlier this year and the Blumhouse horror film Totally killer last year.

“The way I can change their perception of what kind of mother (or what kind of actress) I can be is to really change expectations and challenge them,” Bowen previously said. Us. “I really didn't do [slasher Totally Killer and now Hysteria!] purposely back to back. But I can see how you came to that conclusion.”

He also noted that he is now trying to do “something different” and that he does not want to play a character like he did in modern family again…unless she can specifically play Claire Dunphy a second time.

With reporting by Amanda Williams