Actors who give major zing to minor roles
The Detroit News selected six actors who give major zing to minor roles, one of them was Modern Family’s Rico Rodriguez :
‘Modern Family’
(9 p.m. Wednesdays, ABC)
Character: Manny Delgado
Actor: Rico Rodriguez
Catch phrase or signature: No catch phrase but his droll delivery is undeniable.
How he steals the show: Wise beyond his years, Manny quotes William Shakespeare and plans love affairs with older women. At 11, Rodriguez was a relative unknown before this freshman comedy debuted; now he’s one of the most beloved kids on TV.
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Modern Family: Ty Burrell Is Now a Dad! So Will He Be Just Like Phil?
The Modern Family star and his wife, Holly, have adopted a baby girl, his rep has confirmed.
Ty Burrell said: “I guess if Phil can raise kids, so can I!”
Read more: E-Online
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Announcing Modern Family Forums
We are proud to announce that after many requests we opened the “Modern Family” Forums. the “Modern Family” Forums is your place to chat with fellow Modern Family fans, review episodes, and post opinions about the characters — this is the place to grow our Modern Family community.
We hope you will love it and use it to talk to fellow Modern Family fans. We would love to hear additional ideas, and get feedback on the blog and forums.
Have a great Modern Family weekend,
Team Modern Family TV.
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“Modern Family” Preview: “Starry Night” Has Mitchell in a Dress?
We know that you can’t wait for a new episode of Modern Family, well you only have to wait till next week. Next week’s episode has Mitchell off bonding with Jay and Manny on a camping trip, while Cameron plans a night out to bond with Gloria. From the looks of things, neither venture goes well.
Source: After Elton
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Ed O’Neill on Being the ‘Modern Family’ Patriarch
TV Squad has an interview with Ed O’Neill. Here are some of the highlights:
Was that what attracted you to the role of Jay, because it was so different from Al Bundy, and so different from the dramatic roles you’ve played?
Not so much different from Al, because everything is. But I liked the ensemble nature of the show. That attracted me right away. That the show, there’s a lot of go-to people on the show. So it takes a lot of pressure off, you know? And also it becomes, for me, less boring. You know, you see that person all the time. Especially when you’re doing it every week. It just gets old fast. But this show seemed to have more comedic potential because of the three separate but interconnected families.
So how has Jay kind of changed and shifted since the start?
Well, they’re making him more of a prick. And the thing I look at…
Levitan: Why are we inspired to do that? Where is that coming from? I’m not sure…
(laughing) You know what he’s saying. I think that there’s always a change when the actual actors begin to work with each other on a regular basis and you become friendly… hopefully…you start to like one another. In between takes, you start to share stories and such.
And then there’s this sort of a melding, which I love that process, because that’s like the honeymoon, really. And then things begin to become a little warmer, a little more comfortable. You can do things with a little look instead of, you know what I mean? It becomes more real. That’s how it changes.
First of all, how interesting is it that a lot of the cast of ‘Married… With Children’ are all sprinkled through the primetime schedule? Christina (Applegate) had her own show for a couple years, and now Katey (Sagal) is on ‘Sons of Anarchy.‘
Yes, yes. I like it because it kind of shows that there was some talent in that cast, you know, and some staying power.
Alright, just how is it working with Sofia Vergara in most of your scenes?
I love playing with her. I really love working with her. I think she’s extraordinarily funny. Of course, she’s not hard to look at. I love the idea that the different culture, and it’s hard enough to understand a woman, you know, in a marriage, in the same culture. And you take a Colombian woman, beautiful, young, and so there’s always the surprises for Jay, things he didn’t quite bargain on, I would imagine, when he married her. Obviously, she was beautiful, and that was thrilling. And now that he’s married, there are puzzling aspects.
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Modern Family Cover Shoot! TV Guide Magazine!
Join cast of Modern Family on the cover shoot with TV Guide Magazine. Ed ONeil, Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet.
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Modern Family: Sports Edition
We liked this blog post from NE Patriots Draft talking about how they would cast the show using figures from the world of sports. Here are some examples:
Manny (Usain Bolt)
The most dominant man in sports (untouchable in the 100m) with the most dominant character on TV today. I would pay $12 to watch these two race. Right now.
Mitchell (Brian Scalabrine), Cam (Jon Asamoah)
I can’t look at Mitchell without seeing Brian Scalabrine for some reason, while Jon Asamoah is the only University of Illinois offensive lineman that I can think of. Evidently, Cam was quite the blocker.
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TV Ratings: Modern Family Rebounds
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Of course FOX easily won another Wednesday night as American Idol cruised at 9pm. Still with a 7.5 adults 18-49 rating, Idol was down 12% versus last Wednesday, but FOX notes Idol retained 96% of the adults 18-49 audience from the comparable night in 2009.
Even against Idol, ABC’s comedy block held up. Modern Family was up 9% versus last week to a 3.7 adults 18-49 rating and with a 2.6 rating in adults 18-49, Cougar Town was up 13%.
Source: TV by the Numbers
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Modern Family to Jump Space and Time à la Lost (or Maybe Just Go to Hawaii)
The Modern Family cast is in Hawaii right this second, filming their big “family vacation” episode.
E-Online just met up with the whole Modern Family cast and creator, and you aren’t going to believe this:
“What we’re trying to do is plant several modern families in several different times and then jump all around,” executive producer Steve Levitan told me. “And then we have a fully underwater episode, too. We’re really gonna embrace it. Why not?”
Clearly, he’s kidding. But so great that he’s a Lost fan! Levitan, who tweeted that this picture was “a good Hawaiian omen for our first day of shooting,” also fesses up his real motivations for taking the cast to Hawaii. “We’re just gonna try to just live up to the Brady Bunch Hawaii episode. It’s not a ratings ploy. Frankly, I’m tired and wanted to go to Hawaii.”
Read more: E-Online
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Phil Gets a Facebook Reality Check on ‘Modern Family’ (VIDEO)
If you’re ever tempted to re-connect with an old lover on Facebook, just take a hint from Phil’s ex-girlfriend on ‘Modern Family’. She thinks his updates like “How was your day?” and “My neck is so sore” are an invitation to get back together.
Did this ever happen to you?
Source AOL TV
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