But the love between Cameron and Mitchell Tucker-Pritchett remained strong throughout the 11 years of Modern Family. The two met at a games night when Mitch rolled his eyes every time Cam “got a little boisterous”. They married in two of the most romantic and near-disastrous TV episodes in living memory and raised two adopted children, Lily and Rexford.
Being a groundbreaking gay TV couple came at a price: critics wanted more PDAs and less fighting, but Cam and Mitch’s love shone bright. Stonestreet remains tight-lipped, but the affection is powerful. Modern Family ran from 2009 to 2020, when Cam and Mitch drove off to live happily ever after in Missouri.
Tyler Ferguson and Stonestreet live in different cities, but still see each other and talk regularly – and their love for the characters lives on. ES: We met when the producers were testing potential Cams with their already-cast Mitchell. JTF: It was like speed dating, meeting all these different guys and waiting for chemistry to happen.
I was certainly drawn to Eric as a person. He was very kind, sweet and excited to be there. Do you want to bring up the Z snap or not?
ES: I’ll set it up and you finish it. I’d had three auditions and I’d learned where the laughs were and had a take on the character, so I was very confident. Then we get to the big moment – the network test – and I wasn’t feeling it.
So … JTF: The room was a little less warm than Eric had been experiencing before. In this moment where he thought that there should be a laugh and there wasn’t one, he panicked and did a gay Z snap. ES: To this day I have no knowledge of where that came from.
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