Julie Bowen has revealed that she felt she and her co-star Sofia Vergara were unfairly pitted against each other when filming Modern Family.
The 54-year-old actress tells this week’s edition of stellar magazine tThat the couple are actually very close friends.
“A lot of times people ask me, ‘Why don’t you guys get along?’ And I was like, “Are you kidding me? “I love Sofia and, as far as I know, she loves me,” he said.
Julie said she actually became close to her co-star, 52, despite feeling pressured to “hate each other.”
“I was texting with her this morning. It’s ridiculous that when two or more women get together, there’s a kind of scarcity mentality that comes from the women themselves about competing for resources, (those) are, I guess, men ‘ he continued.
“There’s also this idea that when women get together, from the male perspective, they’re like witches… “They’ll become too powerful… What if they find out they don’t need us?”
‘Either way, I call BS. I love women. I love all types, shapes and sizes, and a woman like Sofia, who is so comfortable in her skin, is who she is and has a great sense of humor. I bow. I love her.’
Julie, who played Claire Dunphy on the long-running comedy, said elsewhere in the interview that she is open to rebooting Modern Family.
Julie Bowen has revealed that she felt she and her co-star Sofia Vergara were unfairly pitted against each other when filming Modern Family. Both in the photo
I’m in. Can you round up everyone else? You can be a producer and be on set every day. You’d have a lot of fun,’ he said.
On a recent episode of Jennie Garth’s podcast I choose myselfspoke about his relationship with Vergara, who recently said she’s ready to reunite with her co-stars to do a Modern Family reboot.
“They were just determined to turn us against each other, like we hated each other,” he said. ‘It’s this scarcity mentality that there is only one woman who can be happy at a time.
“And I said, ‘Oh, no. “I love Sofia and I love how different we are,” he added before highlighting the qualities he adores in his co-star.
“And I love it…she’s funny and modest and bawdy, she loves life, she loves dancing and eating cake and all that stuff,” he said.
“A lot of times people ask me, ‘Why don’t you guys get along?’ And I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? I love Sofia and as far as I know, she loves me,'” he said.
“I felt it on Modern Family,” he recalled. “The press kept trying to turn Sofía and me into something like Betty and Verónica.”
Bowen also compared the non-existent conflict in his friendship with Vergara to the sensational narratives that Garth and the late Shannen Doherty faced when filming Beverly Hills, 90210.
And I know they did the same with you and Shannen. I mean, I remember,” he told the podcast host.
The two-time Emmy winner also said she couldn’t understand why there is a belief that two women can’t coexist together and share the spotlight simultaneously.
“I don’t understand why society doesn’t have space,” he said. “It goes back to witches, like we’re too scary if we’re all together.”
Julie, who played Claire Dunphy on the long-running comedy, said elsewhere in the interview that she is open to rebooting Modern Family.
He also addressed feud rumors that continued into Modern Family’s eighth season.
To put an end to the ongoing speculation, he said he made a bold statement during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
“Every night I get a call or an email saying, ‘So-and-so trash magazine is going to publish the story that you’re cold to Sofia Vergara because you’re jealous of her fame,'” he recalled.
“So last night I emailed him and then we talked,” he continued. And I said, ‘What should I say? Because we are friends.”
She recalled Vergara telling her, ‘Please, just borrow my blouse.’
Bowen said she was saddened by the false claims surrounding her and her co-star turned close friend.
“I found it very disappointing from the press, but I never heard about it,” he said.
I’m in. Can you round up everyone else? You can be a producer and be on set every day. You’d have a lot of fun,’ he said. Photographed in September 2012.
“That’s a scarcity mentality, and there’s no such thing as, ‘Oh, if one woman does well, that means others have to step back.'”
“I can’t stand that,” he said.
And since then, Bowen said Vergara had remained close even after her long-running series concluded with its 11th and final season in 2020.
“Being around her I learned a lot about what it is to be a really powerful woman completely into herself,” Bowen said of the America’s Got Talent judge.
“No one would mistake her for a 14-year-old boy from behind, like they do to me all the time,” he added.
Recently, Bowen celebrated her friend’s 52nd birthday in July by making a sweet public tribute and posting a photo of them sharing a hug at Vergara’s 2015 Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony.
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