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Ariel Winter shared with E! News which Modern Family costars she stays successful interaction with the astir and each the ways her erstwhile castmates are similar a household IRL.
By Sasha Wayman Oct 14, 2024 2:00 PMTags
Modern Family's Ariel Winter Gives Update connected Her Life Outside of Hollywood (Exclusive)
Rest easy, Modern Family fans. Because Ariel Winter conscionable revealed that the Dunphy household is arsenic adjacent arsenic ever.
“We each emotion each other. It's amazing,” Ariel told E! News successful an exclusive interview. When “you walk truthful overmuch clip with people, you truly bash go the household that you portray.”
Though accumulation connected ABC’s deed bid wrapped backmost successful 2020, the Dunphy family’s undeniable onscreen chemistry continues to persist off-screen.
Exhibit A: When the 26-year-old was honored with the Legacy Award astatine the 4th Annual Legacy Ball connected Oct. 5, costar Nolan Gould accompanied her longtime boyfriend Luke Benward to contiguous the accolade. While Ariel and Nolan, 25, played member and sister connected TV for implicit a decade, their sibling enslaved transcends the tiny screen.
“He is my brother,” explained the actress, who spent 11 seasons arsenic brainy Alex. “He was my archetypal champion friend, which is simply a truly beauteous thing. We met erstwhile helium was 10 and I was 11, and we've gone done truthful galore stages of beingness together. And we person stuck done it all, heavy and thin.”
While they weren’t successful attendance astatine this year’s Legacy Ball, on-screen dada and uncle Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet showed their enactment from afar with a astonishment video astatine the event.
As for the remainder of the cast, they besides support their household dynamic IRL. But similar immoderate family, they don’t chat each day.
The clump pass however you’d expect “your ain existent family” would, Ariel admitted. “You sometimes don't enactment successful interaction that often. I don't speech to my household each azygous day. Sometimes it's similar my extended family. It could beryllium a week; it could beryllium a month. But I bash support successful interaction with a batch of them rather frequently.”
Though the Sofia the First histrion stays successful interaction with the full Dunphy gang, she confessed that speech from Nolan, she sees Eric the astir owed to their enactment unneurotic for Big Slick to rise wealth for pediatric cancer.
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But with everyone starring antithetic lives, it’s gotten much hard to drawback up successful caller years.
“Really conscionable erstwhile anybody has clip and we're successful the aforesaid place, we'll effort and spot each other,” she explained. “So that's what's hard. We're not successful the aforesaid place. Everybody's truthful busy.”
And there’s the region origin arsenic well. In 2022, Ariel made the hard determination to determination retired of California.
“I don't deliberation L.A. was ever truly my vibe, but I conscionable was nervous,” Ariel told E!. “And past this accidental presented itself, and I was like, you cognize what? I'm successful a play of change, and I'm truly trying to heal and turn and evolve. It's opened up my satellite a lot.”
But the determination is bittersweet. While it’s proven fruitful for Ariel’s idiosyncratic growth, she can’t contradict that she misses her erstwhile castmates.
“You spell from moving with idiosyncratic astir each azygous time for 12 years, and past it's benignant of like, poof,” she said. “Now everybody's everywhere. So we effort to support successful interaction arsenic overmuch arsenic we can.”
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