Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet gets candid about scrapped Cam & Mitch spinoff: ‘It felt a little hurtful’

Eric Stonestreet admits he felt hurt when his Modern Family spinoff was scrapped by the network. 

The Modern Family actor, 53 — who recently slammed ‘fake’ people in Hollywood — admitted on the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast on Sunday that he and on-screen partner Jesse Tyler Ferguson were initially going to have their own show. 

‘[Modern Family co-creator] 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,” he explained. 

‘They just said, “We don’t want to do it,”‘ he added.

The Emmy winner also revealed that he though the network threw out the project because they saw him and Ferguson as ‘old guys.’

The Kansas native said: ‘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.’

And although he felt let down, he understood the decision was not in his hands.

‘It felt a little hurtful. But people make business decisions,’ Stonestreet said. 

However, the actor did admit that if the show was created, it would have been a ‘slam dunk’ with viewers.

He shared: ‘I don’t think it would have not been successful. Because you had one of the creators — who had really taken such great care of making sure that show was great for so long — willing to do it.’

Stonestreet also teased a potential Modern Family reunion and admitted that the possibility has been in the works.

‘I wish we’d do a Christmas special, and there’s been talk of that,’ he said.

Modern Family premiered on September 23, 2009 on ABC and wrapped on April 8, 2020. The program made waves at the time and had consistent ratings.

It aired for eleven seasons and yielded an impressive 250 episodes.

The cast also included Ed O’Neill, Rico Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Nolan Gould, Julie Bowen, Ariel Winter, Ty Burrell, Sarah Hyland and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

He admitted on the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast on Sunday that he and on-screen partner Jesse Tyler Ferguson were initially going to have their own show; seen in 2010

‘[Modern Family co-creator] 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,” he explained; seen in 2019

The cast also included Ed O’Neill, Rico Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Nolan Gould, Julie Bowen, Ariel Winter, Ty Burrell, Sarah Hyland and Jesse Tyler Ferguson seen in 2009

The Modern Family cast recently reunited at the 30th annual SAG Awards in February

Stonestreet’s role as Cameron Tucker earned him two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from three nominations. He also has four SAG awards.

The Kansas State graduate is currently engaged to pediatric nurse Lindsay Schweitzer.

 The Modern Family cast recently reunited at the 30th annual SAG Awards in February.