Sofía Vergara discussed the possibility of a "Modern Family" reunion.
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In a recent episode of The Hollywood Reporter's "Awards Chatter" podcast, hosted by its executive editor of awards, Scott Feinberg, the 51-year-old actress expressed her enthusiasm for reprising her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett.
“I mean, I would do it in a second,” Vergara said when asked about a "Modern Family" revival. “Of course, I would do it.”
Despite the show ending only four years ago, Vergara mentioned that she would participate in a revival “just for the experience of doing it again,” acknowledging that she wasn't sure if it would be “good or bad.”
Elsewhere in the conversation, the "Hot Pursuit" star candidly discussed how "Narco traffic" affected her childhood in Colombia.
“I grew up in Colombia in the ’70s, the ’80s, and the ’90s, and as you know, that was the time when Narco traffic, unfortunately, was impacting the lives of every single person in Colombia,” Vergara said. “It was a really rough time for the country and for families.”
She described the situation as “really, really bad,” highlighting the prevalence of “a lot of kidnappings and bombings.” Vergara revealed that her brother "joined that business" in the ’90s and “was killed very young.”
She elaborated, "It was heartbreaking, but it was not only happening to me, it was happening to a lot of people in Colombia."
Earlier this year, Vergara embodied Griselda Blanco, the Colombian drug lord famously known as the "Godmother of Cocaine," in the Netflix limited series Griselda. The actress emphasized that her personal encounters and the ordeals of other families in Colombia were the driving forces behind her involvement in the project.
Upon first hearing about Blanco, Vergara's immediate response was, "What are they talking about? There’s no way there is a woman that could do what these vicious men can do. There is no way." She mentioned that she hadn't come across Blanco before, which led to her initial disbelief.
"We knew everyone. We grew up listening to their names at dinnertime, in the news, in the newspaper," Vergara recalled. "It was all about that all those decades."
She expressed being "fascinated" by Blanco's story but also acknowledged feeling some apprehension. "I was nervous because I didn’t want to romanticize this character, this woman," she explained. "But I was super interested because, like I said, I knew who these men were," she continued.
