‘Modern Family’ star Eric Stonestreet on scrapped Cam & Mitch spinoff: “It felt a little hurtful”
Modern Family co-star, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, is unlikely to come to fruition. The two men played gay couple Cam (Stonestreet) and Mitch (Ferguson) in the much-loved show, which ran from 2009 to 2020.Stonestreet, 53, appeared on the In Depth With Graham Bensinger podcast yesterday.
He says that Modern Family’s co-creator, Chris Lloyd, thought that Cam and Mitch could carry a spin-off sitcom. He went as far as to write a pilot.
Both actors agreed in principle to reprise their roles.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.However, ABC decided not to run with it.“I don’t think it’s potential anymore,” Stonestreet told Graham Bensinger. “They had their chance.
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.’ They just said, ‘We don’t want to do it.’”At the end of Modern Family, Cam, Mitch and their daughter Lily are poised to move to Missouri after Cam gets a coaching job back in his home state.“I love my character.
