Modern Family alum Ariel Winter explained wherefore leaving Los Angeles “opened up” her satellite and however her enslaved with costar Nolan Gould has endured in an exclusive interrogation with E! News.
By Sasha Wayman Oct 10, 2024 7:31 PMTags
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Ariel Winter has a modern outlook connected life.
In the years since taking disconnected Alex Dunphy’s iconic glasses aft the ABC sitcom ended in 2020, the Modern Family alum has been filling her ain cup. And that’s included making the hard determination to determination retired of Los Angeles to prosecute a quieter beingness extracurricular of the star-studded town.
“I don't deliberation L.A. was ever truly my vibe, but I conscionable was nervous,” Ariel, 26, told E! News successful an exclusive interview. “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 adjacent with this immense alteration successful her life, immoderate things ne'er change. Like her adjacent enslaved with her Modern Family costars.
Case successful point: erstwhile she was awarded the Legacy Award at the fourth Annual Legacy Ball connected Oct. 5, onscreen brother Nolan Gould joined her longtime boyfriend Luke Benward to manus disconnected the night's apical honor. While Ariel and Nolan, 25, were siblings connected TV for 11 seasons, it’s a enslaved that besides translates IRL.
“He is my brother,” she explained. “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.”
As for the remainder of her Modern Family cast, well, their household dynamic is inactive conscionable arsenic strong.
“We each emotion each other. It's amazing,” she gushed, adding that when “you walk truthful overmuch clip with people, you truly bash go the household that you portray.”
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That emotion has endured adjacent successful the 4 years since the cameras stopped rolling.
“That's hard erstwhile you spell from moving with idiosyncratic astir each azygous time for 12 years, and past it's benignant of like, poof,” Ariel admitted. “Now everybody's everywhere. So we effort to support successful interaction arsenic overmuch arsenic we can.”
But amid this clip of large change, the Sofia the First actress has had her fellow of 5 years Luke by her side. And astatine the halfway of their narration is their coagulated friendship.
“There are truthful galore things that spell into a partnership, but what I find truthful important is simply a ‘best friendship,’” Ariel told E!. “I consciousness like, if you person that foundation, you truly tin upwind a batch of storms.”
As for what’s adjacent for her beingness with the Girl Vs. Monster actor, 29, Ariel is conscionable blessed to beryllium on for the ride.
“I just love him,” she added. “And immoderate the aboriginal is for us, it is for us. We got our canine kids, and we emotion our life.”