Eric Stonestreet Recalls ABC’s “Hurtful” Rejection Of ‘Modern Family’ Spin-Off About Mitch & Cam
deadline.comThings aren’t looking great for Eric Stonestreet and his work husband. The Modern Family alum recently explained that series co-creator Chris Lloyd‘s planned spin-off about Mitch (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cam (Stonestreet) appears to be dead in the water, four years after the ABC sitcom ended its 11-season run. “I don’t think it’s potential anymore,” he told Graham Bensinger in an interview. “They had their chance.
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.’ They just said, ‘We don’t want to do it.’ “I love my character.
I love the show. I love Jesse. We had a great working relationship, we had amazing chemistry. 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.
It felt a little hurtful. But people make business decisions,” added Stonestreet. According to Stonestreet, the spin-off would have followed Mitch, Cam and their adopted teen daughter Lily Tucker-Pritchett (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons) as they move from California to Cam’s native Missouri. “I think it would have been a slam dunk,” he said. “I don’t think it would have not been successful.
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