Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s modern-day stepdaughter sends him to “voicemail”

Jesse Tyler Ferguson He has nothing but love for his own Modern family costars – even if his daughter is on TV, Aubrey Anderson-Emmonssometimes leaves it read.

“I just called her the other day and it went straight to voicemail,” Ferguson, 49, exclusively told Us Weekly of Anderson-Emmons, 17, while promoting his partnership with Dip on their smart oven.

He joked that the silence was a hit to his ego. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, she sent me to voicemail!'” Ferguson continued. “I call her, and she sends me to voicemail. She’s like, ‘Oh my God, my dad is on TV calling me.'”

The actor noted that he met Anderson-Emmons when she was just 3 years old, so he still thinks of her as a little girl sometimes. “But, you know, she’s a different person now,” he confessed.

Ferguson played Mitchell Pritchett Modern family for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020. Anderson-Emmons joined the cast in 2011 as Mitchell and her husband Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) daughter, Lily Tucker-Pritchett.

Although Ferguson didn’t like being sent to voicemail by his former player, he said us He would love to reunite with Anderson-Emmons and the The rest of the cast for the film.

“We’ve been away from these characters for four or five years, like, let’s just jump in and see what happens five years later,” he said of his ideas for the film to catch up. “perhaps Mitch and Cameron Still distanced and you want to see these characters together, so it could be around some kind of family reunion.”

Ferguson added that he would “love to go in with Lilly” and see how She acts like a girlTo be “almost on her way to college”.

As for the rest of the storyline, he felt it should not be “too different from the show”. Instead, Ferguson suggested the possible move would be “a deeper history of what’s happened in the last five years” and what the kids are “dealing with” at the time.

The script doesn’t really matter to Ferguson, who revealed that the tight-knit team was just “dying to be back together again.” we love each other so.”

if the Modern family The cast is doing a reunion and it needs to be quick, according to Sofia Vergarawho played Gloria Delgado-Pritchett.

“We don’t have much time, since then Ed (O’Neill) He’s old,” Vergara, 52, joked during a performance in January The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonreferring to her TV husband, who played Jay Pritchett.

Vergara later admitted that she didn’t think they needed a reunion yet. “It doesn’t know but it doesn’t look right,” she added. “I feel like we need a little more time.”

Ferguson, meanwhile, told us Vergara’s comments about O’Neal, 78, prove just how close the cast became during their sitcom run.

“We love teasing each other so much. We love, you know, making each other laugh,” he explained. “Ed has a great sense of humor. He read it. He said, ‘I can’t believe she said that.’ But also like, well, Ed you’re the oldest. If we look chronologically, you’re the one we’re most worried about.”

As fans and Ferguson alike wait for someone to give the green light A Modern family reunionThe actor is busy with other projects – one of which is a collaboration with Tubla to promote their smart oven.

“I love Tubla. I’m super busy Now that I have two children” he said us of the partnership. “I have this podcast (‘Dinner on Me’). I actually eat out on my podcast. So, like, sometimes I have to make meals for my family that doesn’t eat out with me on my podcast. I have to do something easy.”

Ferguson explained that the device was making time for dinner no stress. “I’m such a foodie too. I don’t like just throwing a meal in the microwave,” he said, noting that Tubla’s smart oven makes him feel like he’s “still participating” in the cooking process.

the Tubla smart oven Allows customers to order pre-prepared meals that they will put in the heater for dinners and light desserts at home.

“It can be healthy, or it can be a little naughty, like, their desserts are also delicious. So, you know, I like it,” Ferguson teased. “It kind of gives me the options to eat healthy when I want and eat a little more upscale what I want, and (it) tastes amazing too.”

For more information about Tubla’s smart oven, visit their website, tovala.com.

With reporting by Amanda Williams