“One of the pressures I’ve always felt, specifically after being on a show like Modern Family, where I’m portraying a gay man on a television show, on a network that is as popular as it is,” the actor, 49, explained during the Tuesday, July 8, episode of his “Dinner’s On Me” podcast, “you receive criticism, as you do, with anything you do, but the criticism that I think I heard the loudest was always from the gay community, feeling as if, maybe, I didn’t represent their idea of what a gay relationship was, or a gay man was.”
Although some fans were not pleased with his portrayal of Mitchell on Modern Family, Ferguson considered his character to be “a shade of who I was, so you’re kind of like, ‘If it’s stereotypical, I’m basically playing myself, so I guess guilty as charged.’”
Ferguson played Mitchell on the ABC sitcom for 11 seasons from September 2009 to April 2020. The show followed the extended Pritchett family, with Mitchell and his partner, Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet), navigating the intricacies of a same-sex relationship while raising their adopted daughter, Lily (Aubrey Anderson-Emmons).
Off-screen, Ferguson has been married to Justin Mikita since July 2013, and the couple share Beckett, 5, and Sully, 2. Stonestreet, for his part, announced his engagement to Lindsay Schweitzer in August 2021.
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