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Sofía Vergara Says She Jokingly Reminds Ed O’Neill ‘Don’t Die’ So They Can Make a Modern Family ‘Sequel’ One Day
“It’d be so much fun,” Vergara said of returning to the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker family’s hilarious dynamic

Sofía Vergara has some long-term plans when it comes to the future of Modern Family.

Four years after the beloved series ended, the actress said she’d “die” to be back on set with her fictional family. However, she knows that it’s still too soon for the Pritchett, Dunphy and Tucker family’s return. But Vergara, 52, does have an ongoing joke with her former onscreen husband, Ed O’Neill, regarding a potential follow-up to the show, which aired for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020.

Vergara told Variety that after seeing O’Neill, 78, in Clipped, she said to him, “You look f—ing old,” before revealing that his age is a topic of conversation with regards to the show.

“I always joke with him, ‘Ed, don’t die. Because if we do the sequel, it will take some time, and you’re the oldest of us. You can’t be dead!'” Vergara said of how she teases the actor, who played Jay Pritchett, the husband of her character Gloria Pritchett.

As for what the Griselda star would want the cast to do if they all got together again, she suggested a “TV movie,” telling the outlet, “It’d be so much fun.”

Her costar Sarah Hyland has similarly expressed interest in potentially revisiting the series, on which she starred as Haley Dunphy, telling PEOPLE in June, “I love the cast with my entire heart and soul… I would love to be back with everybody.”

She noted, however, that the storyline would affect whether she’d be on board or not. “I think creatively for me, I would want to know what as going on with Haley. I want to see her career back and stuff and her creativity, and I want her to be able to do both.”

Hyland, 33, added that she’d want to see her character do what her onscreen mom, Claire (Julie Bowen) “set out to do and did as an amazing mother as well as a businesswoman and CEO.”