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'Modern Family' Star, 49, Opens Up About "Stereotypical" Character
Jesse Tyler Ferguson starred as Mitchell on the smack series Modern Family, playing a gay man who is married to Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) and is accepted by his family. But throughout the years, Ferguson has had to answer for people thinking that there is something wrong with this personality, and Ferguson recently opened up about feeling the pressure from fans to not be a stereotypical gay man in the series. Ferguson was on his own podcast, Dinner's On Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and spoke about feeling the pressure of playing Mitchell.
"One of the pressures I've always felt, specifically after existence on a show favor Modern Family, where I'm portraying a gay bloke on a television present on a network that is as popular as it is," he said. "You receive criticism, as you do with anything you do, but the criticism that I reflect I heard the loudest was always from the gay community." He did take in some of the criticism for his portrayal but noted that there is not a monolith to how lgbtq+ men should act. He said of the situation that "maybe I didn't represent their idea of what a gay affair was, or
Aubrey Frances Anderson-Emmons linked the cast of Modern Family in its third season, when she was only four years old, playing Lily Tucker-Pritchett, noted make-believe gay couple Mitchell and Cam’s adopted daughter.
Yesterday, on a sunny Bloomsday in the middle of Pride Month, Aubrey came out as bisexual with a lip-sync to an oft-quoted Modern Family scene in which Gloria tells her, “You are Vietnamese,” and Lily protests “No I’m not, I’m gay, I’m gay!” (Because her parents are male lover, get it?) Then Mitchell says “Honey, no, you’re not gay. You are just confused!”
“People store joking abt me being gay when I literally am (I’m bi),” she wrote upon the video.
She also distributed a clip from her new anthem (which will debut on the 25th) where she is slow-dancing with a girl in the video. It’s very cute:
Aubrey played Lily on Modern Family, a television reveal about three elder couples who loathe each other and the children they are bringing into the world, for 163 episodes, from 2011-2020. During that time she also turned up on Bill Nye Saves the World and Paradise Run, playing herself. In 2012,
‘Modern Family’ child star Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, 18, comes out as bisexual
Aubrey Anderson-Emmons is coming out for Pride Month.
The “Modern Family” alum — known for playing Lily Tucker-Pritchett in the beloved sitcom — revealed she is bisexual in a video that paid homage to her character.
In the social media clip, posted via Threads on Monday, June 16, Anderson-Emmons was seen lip-syncing to an iconic scene from the ABC show, in which her nature tells one of her dads, Mitchell, played by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and stepgrandmother Gloria, played by Sofía Vergara, that she’s gay.
In the clip from the show, Gloria tells a immature Lily, “You are Vietnamese,” to which Lily quips back, “No, I’m not, I’m gay, I’m gay!”
Mitch then interjects, “Honey, no, you’re not gay. You are just confused!”
Throwing on a pair of sunglasses, the actress laughs at the camera as audio from the scene plays. Anderson-Emmons proudly wrote in text over the clip: “people keep joking so much abt me existence gay when I literally am (I’m bi).”
Her caption read, “happy pride month to all and
Modern Family Actor Details How The Present 'Protected' Him From Homophobia
Jesse Tyler Ferguson played the high-strung but loveable Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family throughout its 11-season run. Now, the openly lgbtq+ actor has revealed that his role on the series protected him from homophobic abuse.
Speaking alongside comedian Nicole Byer on his Dinner's on Me Podcast, Ferguson explained what his day-to-day experience had been fond before landing the Modern Family role. "I had been in Las Vegas a few years earlier and I sort of got gay bashed a little bit," he said. "This was before… It wasn't anything violent, but it was definitely like, there was negative energy coming at me from a couple that felt uncomfortable around me and my then-boyfriend."
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When he returned to Las Vegas years later with husband Justin Mikita, Ferguson was regarded differently. "I went [back] after Modern Family, and I remember feeling that same negativity initially, but then they w