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Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson
RE-RUN: SOFIA VERGARA — the physical toll of ‘Griselda’ and Ed O’Neill butt dials
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The other day, I was making lemonade with my sons, Beckett and Sully, and Beckett is a little bit of a perfectionist. I'm not sure where he gets that from. It's me. It's definitely me. But he was getting really upset about the seeds falling into the juice, and it was turning into a bit of high drama. Now, listen, there's an easier way to do this. Who knew? Wonderful seedless lemons are a 100% naturally seedless lemon variety. They're juicy, zesty, bright, and everything you love about lemons, minus the. See, that's right. No more seeds floating in your lemonade or Diet Coke or getting caught in your teeth when you take a bite of salad. Frankly, that's just a hazard. Wonderful seedless lemons are available nationwide at retailers such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Walmart, Kroger, as well as select Costco outlets. Look for wonderful seedless lemons at your local retailer or visit wonderfulseedlesslemons.com to learn more. Hey, it's Jesse. Now, I have a question for you. Have you thought about hosting on Airbnb? I know so many of my listeners have such interesting lives. Maybe you're a traveling nurse running from hospital to hospital, or a touring musician, a pilot, a truck driver. I mean, there are so many jobs that take us away from our homes for long stretches of time. And even though there's perks in traveling, I love it. It's sometimes a bummer to be gone for extended periods and know that no one is there to enjoy the space we've put so much of ourselves into. So I come back to my initial question. Have you thought about hosting on Airbnb? Whether it's your whole home or just an unused space within your home, you have an Airbnb. I'm telling you, I know your next thought. Well, that's a lot of work. I got to make a listing. I got to make sure the house is clean, be by my phone in case I need anything. Ah. Well, let me tell you, Airbnb has a solution for you. With Airbnb's new co host feature, you can now hire a local co host who handles everything from start to finish. They can manage your listing, communicate with guests, handle the reservations, and even make sure your place looks amazing for every stay so you know you're not stuck worrying about last minute questions while you're in, I don't know, a completely different time zone. Find a co host@airbnb.com host hi, it's Jesse today on the show. You know her as my stepmom Gloria on Modern Family, and most recently for her amazing performance as Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries series Griselda. It's Sofia Vergara.
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Sofia Vergara
I mean, maybe this is the character that I know because I know who this woman is. Not that I had killed any of my husbands. I mean, maybe I wanted to kill one of my husbands, but I didn't.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
This is dinner's on me, and I'm your host, Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Early in 2009, I walked into a small conference room on the Fox slot to meet a group of people who would hopefully become my co workers for a very long time. We were having our first unofficial table read for a pilot called Modern Family. The last person to enter the room was this beautiful Colombian woman who took time to give every single person at the table a big hug. Hola, I'm Sophia, she said. And I knew immediately I was going to absolutely love this person. It's no secret that we did indeed get to work together for a very long time. For 11 years, in fact. I miss every aspect of shooting that series. But the one of the things I miss most is how much Sophia would absolutely just make me laugh, mostly without even trying. She's always been an extremely loyal friend with a huge heart and an incredible sense of humor. She's always the first to throw you a compliment, always the first to crack a joke about herself, and always the first to start a dance party. There is no one like Sofia Vergara, and it's so easy to see why. Everyone who meets her absolutely adores her. Hi, love.
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Sofia Vergara
Happy Valentine.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Happy Valentine. I love that you sent me a text asking if we're really going to eat.
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Sofia Vergara
I felt like it's lunch time.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I'm like, I brought Sophia to Dante in Beverly Hills. It's on the rooftop of the Maybourne Beverly Hills Hotel. New Yorkers might be familiar with Cafe Dante, which opened in Greenwich Village in 1915. Dante's roots are as an Italian coffee house, but in recent years, it has sort of reimagined itself into an aperitivo bar known for its Garibaldi's, which Sofia calls Fluffy orange juice. And it's wood fired pizzas. It's where you go in New York or now Los Angeles when you were seeking La Dolce Vita. And I can't think of someone who lives La Dolce Vita more than my friend Sofia. Okay, let's get to the conversation. Okay, so I just finished Griselda two days ago, and you know what?
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Sofia Vergara
I'm so glad that you had invited me to do this.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, I know.
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Sofia Vergara
I really wanted to hear what you had to.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I am. First of all, I am so proud of you because I remember season one of Modern Family. You were talking about Griselda.
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Sofia Vergara
Yes.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You've been talking about it for 15 years. And like, I know how hard it is to get stuff made in this industry. Like, Justin and I are always pitching stuff. You know, it'll get to like one stage and then completely fall apart. Or like someone like the executive who wants to do it at the place gets fired. It's literally, Literally impossible. So I was just so proud of you for actually, first of all, getting it.
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Sofia Vergara
But the problem with Griselda also was that she was still alive.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
So I had to kind of wait.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It felt wrong.
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Sofia Vergara
Because it felt wrong. It felt wrong. So I said, you know what? This woman was, you know, not a very good person. And I didn't want her to, like, romanticize the whole thing. So I said, I'm not gonna do it. But then she died in 2012, and then that's what. Hey, maybe I can do this now.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. So I just. Just watching those six episodes and first of all, seeing how hard you worked. Cause you would sen. Occasionally like photos of you on set and in your makeup. And I, you know, you would see these photo stuff like, at like three in the morning because that's when you were still working. And like, you had incredibly long hours. And I'm just. It's. It's turned out so.
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Sofia Vergara
I mean, good, Jesse. I mean, how spoiled we got with Modern Family. It was like a dream job.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
I mean, now I even now after doing Griselda, I even miss it more.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
And I even, you know, realize how amazing. Amazing it was for us. I mean, yeah, I had to arrive earlier than everyone because I needed more hair and makeup than everyone. But it was still amazing, right? No. To work with you guys. With Ed, it was like we would go home happy. Yeah.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And we'd also go home at like 3 in the afternoon. But I'm the same lucky.
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Sofia Vergara
We got.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
We're so lucky.
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Sofia Vergara
Well, by Griselda was hard because just the three hours in the morning of hair and makeup, by the time I was done, I was already exhausted. Like, I wanted to go home, buy that thing.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Just go home in your makeup and fall asleep.
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Sofia Vergara
And my day was just starting. Oh, what is this?
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
This is a non alcoholic Garibaldi with a bit of puffy orange juice and layers of parentivo.
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Sofia Vergara
What do we do with this orange? Keep the orange and Put it on the side and set the mini capsule.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Is it good?
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Sofia Vergara
Amazing. It's like summer. Tastes like summer.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Do you have lemonade, by chance? Yes, I love a lemonade. I'm gonna have the salmon, I think. I don't know. You could try it.
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Sofia Vergara
Okay, I'll have a salmon, too. But I also want, like, a pizza.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Like a pizza. Yeah, I remember you had the pizza.
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Sofia Vergara
Pizza. No, no. Nor tomatoes. I cannot eat tomatoes.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. Are you cute with mushrooms?
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Sofia Vergara
Not really.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Okay. Cheese.
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Sofia Vergara
Absolutely. Yes.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. But I just. I. I know how hard you worked on it, and I know, like, I.
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Sofia Vergara
Don'T want to do it again. Well, it was hard. The prosthetics, I was not used to that. I had never done, you know, drama. And then on top of that, to act in Spanish, that was exhausting.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You know, I think that that would. I feel like that would be, like, what your. Your comfort zone would be. I just feel like every time my.
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Sofia Vergara
Career has been in English.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I just view it. I mean, occasionally on the set of Modern Family, you would say something completely wrong, and when we would all laugh at you, be like, this is not my first language. And so I just assumed that you'd be.
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Sofia Vergara
It turns out I am bad acting in all the languages. See?
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Okay, this is a bone I have to pick with you, though, because I remember sitting at a dinner with. It was you, me, and Joe and Justin, and you said, you're like, I feel. I feel like I'm a celebrity first and a personality, and I don't feel like an actress. And I said, I completely disagree with you. You've been nominated for four Emmy Awards. They just don't give those out to people who they don't think are actors. You've won SAG Awards. You've won People's Choice Awards. You've been nominated for Golden Globes. I was like, I think that you are an actor. Like, truly. And then. Let me just tell you, don't talk. Hey, just listen to me compliment you for one moment.
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Sofia Vergara
Hey. Okay.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And then watching Griselda, I was like, see this? Not no one else could pull this off. Only you could do that. And I feel like you tapped into something that you've never tapped into before. I was watching you do something that I have never seen you do before.
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Sofia Vergara
And I was a lot of things to tap into. Yeah. You know, my life. What my life was in Colombia, you know, where I come from. So that's why I thought I could do Griselda, because I had a lot to tap into. But I. I. Of Course, I mean, I'm. I've always felt a little bit like I am not an actress because I actually learned on the set of Modern Family.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right.
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Sofia Vergara
You know, I think my teacher was Ed O'Neill. You guys, you know, I had never taken an acting class. You know, I got lucky. And. And comedy is something that always. I've always felt like I'm funny and people laugh at me and like, you know, I always have fun making fun of people and you know, it's like that. It's easy for me. But the drama, I wasn't really sure. I wasn't like, I don't know if I can do that. I don't even. I didn't even know if I could cry or anything like that. And then I said, when I found the character of Griselda, I said, I mean, maybe this is the character that I know because I know who this woman is. Not that I had killed any of my husbands. I mean, maybe I wanted to kill one of my other men. I did.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But also, I mean, you raised Manolo.
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Sofia Vergara
Yes.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I mean, I know Jose, he's very active still with. And you guys are still very close, but yeah, you raised Manolo in the States as an immigrant. You know what it's like to do that. You also know what it's obviously like to come from Colombia. You also know what it's like to be a self made woman. I mean, you came. You do. Yeah. I mean, like, look at how successful you are and look at how successful she was. I mean, you did it in different ways.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, I went the right way and she ran the wrong way. Sir, can I have more of that? Absolutely, yeah.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Tell us what's in it again. So fluffy orange juice.
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Sofia Vergara
We have a Larry supper table, which.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Is a bitters that's made without any alcohol.
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Sofia Vergara
Whatever Fluffy orange juice means.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You love fluffy orange juice. I'll also have my boring lemonade. Oh, no.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, I did. Had a lot of similarities from Griselda. And you know, so my, my brother was part of that business, unfortunately for some time. So I kind of.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
This is your younger brother?
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Sofia Vergara
My. No, my oldest brother who was killed in Colombia in the 90s. And so a lot of those things, like, I thought I understood that business, I understood that woman. And so I thought it was a really interesting character. You know, it's like a lot of people, when, when I did now the press tour, they asked me. So you did this to change the perception of you of being a comedy actress and show that you can do drama. But that was never in my intention, like, I wasn't thinking, oh, I need a character like that to prove that I can be a dramatic actress or anything. No, it was just that I thought that it was so interesting, the character, and that I knew it well, that if there was something that I could play to do a test, to test myself if I could do dramatic, I thought it needed to be somebody that I kind of, like, knew who she was.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right. But I mean, also. And this is why I feel like you are an actor and an artist, and you're just gonna have to take that from me, because I really think you are. Okay.
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Sofia Vergara
Okay.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But that's what we do is, like, we try to find things that challenge us and scare us. I know that you must have been terrified to do this, because it's totally out of your comfort zone. You know, you are wearing these prosthetics. I know you don't like to look unbeautiful.
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Sofia Vergara
Oh, no. But then I did embrace it at the beginning. You know how I enjoy having makeup and being dressed up and my high heels. I mean, it's part of me. I hate feeling sloppy. Sloppy? No, Frumpy.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Frumpy. I've seen you frumpy.
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Sofia Vergara
Okay.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I've seen you when you come into.
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Sofia Vergara
Okay. The people. Of course I do it, but, like, I don't do it, like, just to, oh, I'm gonn go have lunch. I don't show up frumpy.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
No, no.
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Sofia Vergara
I feel I'm a little bit frumpy.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
This is ridiculous. You look fabulous. I cannot believe you think this is frumpy. What did it feel like to finally have, like, what. What did that premiere feel like for you, having known that, like, for the past 15 years, been trying to get this made?
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Sofia Vergara
Yes.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It's such a labor of love.
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Sofia Vergara
We got lucky that we, you know, like, they. I was coming out of Modern Tummy, so nobody really knew if I could do this or not. And I got lucky that Eric Newman, the guy that produced Narcos, because when I started seeing Narcos, I'm like, oh, this is the guy I want to take Griselda to. Because he totally understands that Genre. Yeah, genre. And. Or whatever the fuck. And I'm like, I'm gonna take it to him, because maybe he wants to do this. And he fell in love with her immediately. She said, perfect, I'll let you do it. And, you know, it's a big production. It's like, it's millions and millions of dollars. They were, like, counting on me, and they did. They had no Clue if I was going to be able to do this. So it was like, really. Like, I really appreciate that they gave me the opportunity because I did so.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Much research about that, because there's so little. I looked her up and there's so. There's so little about her. I mean, I've seen photos of her, but, like, there's no. Like, I can't find any videos. Like, what did you pull from. To create her?
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Sofia Vergara
Well, it was great for me that there were not that many videos or pictures of her, because I was not gonna be able to ever look exactly like her. But what I really wanted was Gloria Pritchett to disappear. I didn't want people to think that's Gloria with a fake nose and a wig. So that was my main concern. I wanted to create a woman that looked human, but that it was not me or Gloria. And then also, if you go too.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Far and, like, you make yourself look so crazy, it's actually distracting. Like, they want to see a little bit of you.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm obsessed with those things when I watch movies. I mean, I thought they're gonna get upset at me because I kept saying, no, no, no, no. But I couldn't see her. And then the last day, it was, like, two weeks before we started filming.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
So I haven't found her a makeup person.
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Sofia Vergara
No, we still haven't found her what I needed her to look like. And then the last day, I suddenly. I look in the mirror, I'm like. I tell the producers, like, that's. That's her. That's Griselda. And they were like, oh, thank God. Because we only had two more weeks before we started.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But I love that you were so. That was so important to you, because that is. I mean, first of all, you're embodying her, so you have to feel good about what you're doing. But also that attention to detail, which I know that you are, like, very detail oriented. I've been to your house, and everything's, like, perfect. But I love that that carries. Yeah, but I love that that carries into, you know, your work as an actress.
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Sofia Vergara
It's fun. With Griselda, I kind of, like, did a lot of different things because I also wanted to change the way I.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Was walking, the way the physicality that she found in her is incredible.
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Sofia Vergara
Like, I didn't want it to be with my ass up in the air, how I walk and my boobs up, you know?
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Now for a quick break, but don't go away. When we come back, Sophia tells me the physical toll channeling Griselda had on her and why she felt so compelled to take on the role of the notorious drug trafficker. Okay, be right back. So recently I've gotten back into somewhat of a consistent workout routine. But one thing I did realize, and I'm embarrassed to say this, is that some of my athleisure wear was looking a little worse for wear. I ended up doing a little refresh with some items from Quince. I got a few of the Flowknit Breeze performance tees and polo shirts. They're super comfy and lightweight. They look really great. And fun fact, the fabric is made from recycled water bottles. All right, but we gotta talk about the price. These shirts feel just as nice as the name brand shirts I have that were quadruple the price. Okay, how is this possible? Let me tell you. Quint's partners directly with factories, cutting out the cost of the middleman and passing the savings directly on to you. And I appreciate that they only work with factories that have safe, ethical and responsible manufacturing practices. Upgrade your wardrobe with pieces made to last with quince. Go to quince.com JTF for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E.com JTF to get free shipping and 365 day returns. That's a year, people. Quints.com JTF this episode is brought to.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And we're back with more dinners on me. Oh, that looks good.
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Sofia Vergara
Oh my God, that looks amazing. I was so worried that when you invited me to disco, I'm like, what if it props? And it's. You know me with food.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I do.
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Sofia Vergara
So I was like, should I come from home and already eat something?
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I put a lot of thought into this knowing that you like to eat. That's good. That's what you wanted, right? That's perfect. No tomato. It's really just bread and cheese.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, that's what I. I could live on this.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
That's delicious. The honey.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
So good. Wait, I wanted to go back to Griselda for a little bit.
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Sofia Vergara
The physicality.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Physicality, right.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, it was hard. It was so hard because I didn't want it to walk, like, with my tits in the air and, you know, my ass. So I bought, like, this really bad bra. I would put two spanks of my butt. Didn't jiggle when I walked. So to make it flat. And then I. The worst idea I ever had was that I created, like, this walk. Like, one of my aunts, my cousin honcho, were putting my ass inside. Like, it was weird, which I thought is great, because. And I would see it completely different that I see. I was. I was making a big effort to make my posture different, Right. And then, like, on, like, month three of filming, I got out of bed one day, and it was. I couldn't get up. The doctor. They had to inject me. And the doctor is like, what did you thought that you were gonna be.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
About 50, to be slumped over, all for three months?
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Sofia Vergara
And so they had to inject me, but I had to do it for three more months anyways. Gosh, I think I fucked my back forever because I think something happened to my desk. Yeah. So now every once in a while, I have to be very careful. So whatever.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I mean, I. You know, in the opening scenes of Griselda, you're bandaging up a wound and, like, you have this. You were this gash in the side of your body. I was. I mean, I noticed you carrying that through, though. Like, you were. You would walk and you would be, like, touching it. Like, you did such great, detailed work. Yes.
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Sofia Vergara
Are you kidding me?
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yes. It means something.
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Sofia Vergara
You know what I did at the beginning, I put a plastic fork. I broke a plastic fork. Fork. So it's only. So you only had this part.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The sharp part.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, the sharp part. And. And the first day, because I wanted to remember that I had a pain, but. But I also couldn't. You know, I was thinking of so many things. The wig, the tea, that, everything. So I put it there and I taped it. So.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Such a good idea.
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Sofia Vergara
It would give me pain the whole time.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Maybe that's what up your back.
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Sofia Vergara
No, not. Because that was, like, just for those.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But that's also in order.
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Sofia Vergara
So it was like.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You got to film in order.
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Sofia Vergara
That's huge. So it was, like, a huge deal. So I could understood the. The character getting crazier and crazier and crazier.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah. But that was super cool.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I. I noticed all of that.
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Sofia Vergara
I can't believe it.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And it was like those subtle things that you did also. There is. And I think a lot of this is stuff that you could draw from, like what you were saying, you know, growing up in Colombia and especially in the 90s when things were really dangerous then, you know, having it. Having violence touch your family in such a personal way, but also being an immigrant and being someone who is, you know, came to Miami to, you know, start a new life and to sort of get out of.
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Sofia Vergara
I thought I was just going to marry rich. But it didn't happen.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
No, you became. You became rich.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, but it would have been so much easier.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, it would have been. I know, right?
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Sofia Vergara
I still have time.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You do have time.
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Sofia Vergara
Divorce now.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. You can still marry rich.
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Sofia Vergara
I can still marry rich.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But there's a scene in the third episode where you're talking to this group of Cubans who've come in, and it's an incredible speech. And this is.
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Sofia Vergara
Mario.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
What's that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You want me to say it? Marietos. Say it again. Say it again. I'll repeat it.
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Sofia Vergara
Los Marielitos.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Los Marielitos.
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Sofia Vergara
Those were the Cubans that escaped Cuba in the Mariel, which was a boat, very famous boat that reached the coast of Florida.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right. You have this incredible speech where you say, you know, when I walk into a room, people just see me as a woman. And when you walk into a room, people just see you as someone with tattoos who doesn't speak English. And, you know, we can change all that. And, like, if you, you know, I'm gonna take care of you. I've proven that I'm gonna take care of you. And you will. You won't be just washing their dishes. You're gonna be sitting at the table with them. And really, that is the embodiment of, like, the American dream. I mean, Griselda aside, like, what a wonderful opportunity to also.
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Sofia Vergara
Amazing.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Something so American. And, like, that dream of being an American, even though it's coming through the vessel. This pretty horrible person.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, this horrible person. You know, it's like. It was a very horrible person. But at the beginning, I wanted to think that she had a lot of good intentions. I started to, like, admire things in this woman. So I had to, like, catch myself. And it's like, oh, wait, what did.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You admire about her that way?
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Sofia Vergara
Remember? Well, that. That. I mean, who. Who gets to the level of that freaking business that it's 100% men, there's no woman.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
And to be at that level or even higher than them, and with four kids, an immigrant, a woman that really.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
She came from nothing.
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Sofia Vergara
From nothing.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I mean, it's tricky because you don't want to glorify her, but at the same time, you have to put something in there for the audience to care about. And there were times I was rooting for her.
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Sofia Vergara
I'm glad you said that, because it made me super happy. Look, I'm going for another piece of pizza. I am a pig. It's not only pizza, though.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It's basically just delicious breading.
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Sofia Vergara
No, it is pizza.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It's not pizza.
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Sofia Vergara
Bread in the shape of a pizza and a cheese. But I forgot what I was saying.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
When you were saying, I sometimes admired her. I was rooting for her.
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Sofia Vergara
Oh. So when we did the premiere in Miami, I said, you know what? I'm going to sit with the audience. And it was crazy that the moment that this woman would get away of something horrific, everybody clapping, but hello. Like, she just got away with something horrible.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right.
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Sofia Vergara
But that was what I wanted the character to do. And I always thought about Tony Soprano. I went to Griselda.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. The anti hero.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah. To be like Tony Soprano, that people want her to win. Right.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I just feel like there's no other reason to do it. Unless you're going to give the audience something to root for.
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Sofia Vergara
No. You know, Ed O'Neill called me.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Did he?
- [25:36]
Sofia Vergara
He watched it.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. What do you say?
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Sofia Vergara
Told me, like, three times. He calls me from these numbers that they're, like, same. That they're, like, weird or they. That they're, like, private numbers.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Of course.
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Sofia Vergara
I don't answer my phone.
- [25:49]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I think it's a burner phone.
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Sofia Vergara
What is he doing out there? I don't know what this life that it has after Morning Family, but he was, like, so excited. He loved it. I was very happy to hear that.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. Well, I want to know what the response was, but first of all, did you do a premiere of Griselda in Colombia?
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
What was that like? I mean, you're so loved there. You know, I traveled to Colombia with Justin a few times, and the only advice you gave me.
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Sofia Vergara
What.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
When I traveled was don't buy the drugs off the street. I was like, I don't think we're gonna be buying drugs at all. But thank you for the advice.
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Sofia Vergara
I mean, you never know what could happen.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You never know.
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Sofia Vergara
Just be careful.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But when I went there, I mean, the entire first of all, people would see me and they know. They know our show. They know Modern Family, and they would. So many people just came up to me and just gushed and gushed and gushed about how much. How proud of you. They are. I mean, your country loves you, so I can only imagine going back.
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Sofia Vergara
I'm going off. I don't go enough.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I know. So tell me what it was like to take Griselda to Colombia.
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Sofia Vergara
I arrived. How do you call those advertising things? The things. A billboard. So I was in a song with a bad bunny. You know, the singer Bad bunny.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Of course. Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
And so some months ago, he named me in the song. And in the song, he says, sofia Vergara. Eslinda, pero my linda Persona, which means in English, Sofia Vergara is beautiful, but it's more beautiful in person. And when I arrived in Colombia, they had a big billboard, and it said, sofia Vergara. It's beautiful, but more beautiful in Colombia. So it was, like, really, really amazing.
- [27:37]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
How was. How was the actual show received there?
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Sofia Vergara
The show? Amazing. It was like. I think it's one of the countries that it's done, I'm sure, like, the most amazing.
- [27:48]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
So we had this cast. There's a lot of Colombians in the cast. There's a lot of Latin American actors that I always wanted to work with.
- [27:55]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
And it was so exciting for me for them to be part of this, because I always thought, you know, if. If at least one of them is. This becomes like their modern family in a way. You know, like, that open doors for them, and now they can get agents and managers here. That. That would be, like, a dream come true for me.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Well, you've always put your mouth where your money is in. In that regard, because you are holding doors open for people. You're very generous.
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Sofia Vergara
I mean, that's why it was so important for me to do this TV show in English and in Spanish.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yes.
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Sofia Vergara
Because I wanted it to feel authentic.
- [28:31]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
- [28:32]
Sofia Vergara
And I wanted it that they needed to get Latin actors to complete the whole cast, because that's how it was gonna feel.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Authentic.
- [28:44]
Sofia Vergara
Authentic.
- [28:45]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah.
- [28:45]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
I'm gonna throw up. Jesse. I don't.
- [28:48]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Why did you eat the whole thing?
- [28:49]
Sofia Vergara
Because it's delicious and I'm a pig.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Something that I think a lot of people don't know about you. And I completely forgot about it until I was reading my research.
- [28:59]
Sofia Vergara
What? I mean, you were with me for 11 years, morning and night.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I actually did forget. Is that you. You studied to be a dentist. I find that so fascinating.
- [29:11]
Sofia Vergara
I didn't finish.
- [29:12]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I know. For three years you went to dental school. Right.
- [29:14]
Sofia Vergara
But I didn't finish. I wish I had, though.
- [29:16]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Why?
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Sofia Vergara
No, I didn't wish I had been a dentist. I wanted to be A doctor. So at that time, 40 years ago in Colombia, nobody was a doctor. You were a woman. You weren't a doctor.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right.
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Sofia Vergara
And I wanted to have kids. I wanted to get married to my high school sweetheart. So I said the next best thing, because I love science, is it was dentistry. But I didn't finish. I had too many opportunities working.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, yeah. I mean, you came to Miami when you were what, 20?
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Sofia Vergara
Like 20, 22, too?
- [29:48]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it modeling that brought you there?
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Sofia Vergara
No, I went to Miami because I got a TV show at Univision. Univision is the Hispanic network in the United States. But I had been in Miami for 100 million times. My mom used to have a place in Miami in the 70s, because Miami is two hours and 15 minutes away from Barranquilla.
- [30:11]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right.
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Sofia Vergara
So it's like, you're right there.
- [30:15]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
When did you decide to bring your mom and sister and brother?
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Sofia Vergara
I didn't really decide when my brother was killed in Colombia in the 90s. We didn't really know what the situation was. The whole family was in danger. We weren't clear who had done it. So my mom and my other two siblings, the ones that were left, moved to Miami.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right, right, right.
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Sofia Vergara
But I was super young. I was already there for only a year.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I just think it's really impressive that at such a young age, you were, like, kind of the one to say, okay, let's move so we can be safe. And you brought them to you.
- [30:57]
Sofia Vergara
It was hard.
- [30:58]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And to be so young and also a young mother at the same time, too.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah. Manola was a baby. Manola was three years old. My niece, Clara Niela, was to. It was, like, very hard. And now, when. When. Now that I'm 51 years old and, you know, I see the new generations and I, you know, see younger people. I'm like, I don't know how I did it at 23 years old, you know, being. Taking care of a kid, of a family that was not really very stable in the head, because after a trauma like that, it wasn't like they were happy people, you know, it was like, you know, my brother. My brother that it's alive. He became an addict. He became, you know, really bad for years. It was like a horrible. He became a crack addict, which is, like, the worst thing that could happen to a person. And, you know, he changed. He kind of, like, ruined his life. And it's been hard. It's been very hard.
- [31:59]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, yeah. And I guess another parallel is, like, you know, in Griselda, Griselda becomes A crack addict herself. And like, so that the parallels that you have in your life and the art that you've got to sort of express that there is kind of fascinating.
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Sofia Vergara
I knew all of those characters.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. It's heartbreaking.
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Sofia Vergara
But I guess now that I'm done with it, I think, you know what? I guess it was all of those things, they serve me for something. Not just for bad memories.
- [32:29]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right. And then shortly after that, you know, and I, you know, Justin and you have certainly bonded on this, but you, you kind of got thyroid cancer.
- [32:36]
Sofia Vergara
Yeah.
- [32:36]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
At a very young age. And that was something else you were feeling. Yeah. I mean, you've been through a lot. I know you've been through a lot in your early years.
- [32:45]
Sofia Vergara
And I'm still so young. I'm. I know, right? I'm destroyed, Jesse.
- [32:51]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Totally destroyed.
- [32:52]
Sofia Vergara
I need plastic surgery. I don't have downtime, hardly. I'm going to do it all. Face, lips. Yeah.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You're just looking like a whole different person.
- [33:01]
Sofia Vergara
All of it. No, now. It's great now, people. Now plastic surgery is amazing.
- [33:05]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Just do the prosthetics. Have the prosthetics here.
- [33:07]
Sofia Vergara
Oh, it's awful. Can't have sex with a plastic nose.
- [33:13]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You'll never know until you try. Now for a quick break, but don't go away. When we come back, Sofia shares the concerns she initially had for her character Gloria on Modern Family and why Ed O'Neil leaves her voicemails calling himself dad. Okay, be right back.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And we're back with more dinners on me. You know what I was watching this morning when I was working out, because I'd never seen it and I was curious, was Nights of Prosperity.
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Sofia Vergara
Oh, my God.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. Because I was curious. I knew that that was a show that you did right before Modern Family, right? Yeah, that was. That was the show that you did for ABC that you got your deal with abc. It's interesting because, like, I had never seen it. So I watched the pile. I was like, what is the show that I know Sophia did? Well, I mean, it was. We all looked young when we first started doing Modern Family, but there was also this thing where, you know, you were sort of like the hot one, and you were sort of like, you know, you were the one. You walk in the room and all the guys can't talk. And it's something that I feel like you've continued throughout your entire career is even though you were, like, quote, unquote, the hot girl of the group, like, you still were, like, in on the joke, and you still were also ahead of the joke. Like, you weren't.
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Sofia Vergara
Yeah, I've always. I mean, I'm not afraid of that. Right. And you know me, like, I love to make fun of myself. Like, and the same way I like to make fun of people also, I.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Think what a lot of people don't realize that and sort of. We've even talked about it just during this meal. But, like, you contributed so much, like, so many things like that. The things you say wrong in English and the things that you. The way you say certain things, the things that we make, you know, we laugh at are things that you actually brought to Gloria. They weren't in the writers room, I think some of them.
- [36:34]
Sofia Vergara
But they did learn, you know, at the beginning, I was worried because writers usually write about what they know. And they know you. They know Julie, because they've all had American, you know, girlfriends who are American wives and sisters. I don't think Anyone in that room had ever had, like, a Latin, crazy Latin woman, you know? So at the beginning, I was like, I'm gonna have to be, like, seeing, like, if they let me guide them a little bit. And I think they talked to me like, three times at the beginning. And then suddenly the writing, it was, like, spectacular for Gloria. I didn't know, comedic wise, what I could do at that point. And they didn't know. They didn't had. They didn't know us, really.
- [37:16]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Right.
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Sofia Vergara
And you.
- [37:18]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You didn't audition. You were brought to the project because they had a development deal.
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Sofia Vergara
I didn't audition. So it was like, for them, it was like, we've never had this woman, a Latin woman. I've always known what I had, and I've always made sure I used it.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. I mean, that's what we have to do if we're going to do this business.
- [37:36]
Sofia Vergara
I've never been apologetic of being, you know, looking good or it has never felt. Make me feel, you know, like, insecure of other things.
- [37:45]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I remember when we were going to Sarah Hyland's wedding, and you asked what the dress code was, and I said, I don't know. I think you're just supposed to be, like, comfy. And you're like, comfy.
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Sofia Vergara
Oh, who's gonna go to a wedding comfy? He's like, those are the things. Did you say that, or was it Julie saying that?
- [38:02]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I think maybe Julie said that.
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Sofia Vergara
He's like, of course. Julie always wants to be comfortable. And I'm like, why? Why do you want to be comfortable? It's like, that's the last thing I think about when I'm getting an outfit.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, what's gonna be comfortable?
- [38:17]
Sofia Vergara
No, I don't care. That's not.
- [38:21]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I love it. When I first read the Modern Family pilot, I know we're jumping all over the place, but when I first read the Modern Family pilot, I loved it so much. And the one thing I was concerned about that I couldn't picture, I was like, I don't know how this is gonna work was the relationship between Gloria and Jay. I was like, I just. I didn't. I didn't know. And I was like, it's gonna feel like a joke.
- [38:46]
Sofia Vergara
Yeah.
- [38:47]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And I know you've talked about it, like, how you were nervous. This is even before I knew you were doing it and Ed was doing it. I was just reading it as a script. I was like, that's the one couple.
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Sofia Vergara
That feels like, does it feel like a gold digger kind of situation? You know? An immigrant that with nothing going with the American older guy. I. At the beginning, I was very worried. I was like, you know, how are they gonna like Gloria? Because you want people to love your character, you know, and more in a comedy. So it's like, they're not gonna like anything about her because she's.
- [39:22]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Why is she married to this guy?
- [39:23]
Sofia Vergara
It seems like a gold digger situation.
- [39:25]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Which they actually named an episode. Gold Digger.
- [39:27]
Sofia Vergara
Yeah, Gold Digger.
- [39:28]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It's because Julie Bowen's character, Claire, calls her a gold digger. And I think. You think it means something else.
- [39:34]
Sofia Vergara
Yes.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I mean, I think immediately in the first table read, I was like, oh, I completely believe it. Completely clicked. It was completely believable. And, you know, by the end of the 11 seasons, like, I couldn't imagine you two with anyone else other than. But even, like, you and. You and Ed, just as human beings, had such a deep.
- [39:54]
Sofia Vergara
We had such a big chemistry from the beginning. And, you know, I was worried because I understood that because we were such a big cast and we were all, like, different families. I knew that most of my scenes were always. And most of my seasons were gonna be with Ed.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
You know, sometimes I wouldn't even see you in a week because I was like, you know, gloria's house. And at the beginning, I'm like, oh, my God, what am I gonna be doing with this? Because ed is, like 20 something years older than me, so I'm like, I'm not going to have anything in common, even though I've been a fan of Ed O'Neill since, you know, Married With Children, Al Bundy and all of that. And I was like. But I was, like, thinking, it's like, oh, there are people that are more contemporary to my age. You and Julie and the rest. I'm not going to be with them as much as with Ed. So I was a little bit concerned that I was not going to have that much fun and whatever, but it was absolutely, like, the opposite. It was, like, perfect.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But also, I mean, it's. It was one of those friendships. About my friendship with Ed, I feel like he's my age.
- [40:56]
Sofia Vergara
Yeah.
- [40:57]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You know, I don't know. I feel like even though he tells, like, these rambling, long stories, sometimes I'm like, he still feels like when we.
- [41:03]
Sofia Vergara
Met him, he was almost all right.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, that's true.
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Sofia Vergara
And I thought that he was so old. And now that I'm 51, I'm like.
- [41:12]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Oh, my God, he was so young.
- [41:14]
Sofia Vergara
It was like, crazy. Okay, now I'm gonna throw up. What? What? I Don't know if I need this now.
- [41:20]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Well, you could take it home. Yeah, I'm gonna have a little bit. Oh, it's very good.
- [41:24]
Sofia Vergara
Is it good?
- [41:25]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Hot.
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Sofia Vergara
I mean, I was supposed to go to a Thanksgiving and not a Thanksgiving. What is it? The Valentine's Day? Valentine's dinner tonight.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Why is Thanksgiving okay? I do have to tell the story.
- [41:40]
Sofia Vergara
What story?
- [41:41]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You'll remember. You'll remember once I start telling it.
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Sofia Vergara
Which one?
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
So we shot the episode in Australia, which is of course on the other side of the world. And we all came back on the same flight and we had to work like two days later in Los Angeles. And you were so tired and so jet lagged, one of the crew members said to you, good morning, Sophia. And you said, happy Thanksgiving. Do you remember this? It was like April.
- [42:09]
Sofia Vergara
You laughed at me for like a year.
- [42:12]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
It's one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Happy things.
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Sofia Vergara
Because sometimes, you know how my brain works in English. It's like I unfortunately. And I think it's now I appreciate it that I am like that, I guess, but that my problem is that I don't. I talk before thinking.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
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Sofia Vergara
And sometimes the things that come out is not what I was thinking.
- [42:33]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Sometimes they're not even English.
- [42:35]
Sofia Vergara
It's not even English.
- [42:36]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Sometimes it's just the blooper reels of your blooper reels will make me cry with laughter. If you have. For the listeners, if you have a moment, just go to YouTube and look at Sofia Vergara's bloopers from Modern Family.
- [42:50]
Sofia Vergara
It is gold.
- [42:51]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. I mean, we're all just like. What did you just say? What did you just say? Did you and Ed ever get into a fight, Nila? Never really.
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Sofia Vergara
And he would always tell me he doesn't understand how we've never. We never. But not even once. And I am not exaggerating. Not a thing of where were you? Or do the line or. I mean, no, one thing.
- [43:15]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I mean, Eric and I had fights.
- [43:17]
Sofia Vergara
I know. We all know.
- [43:20]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But I mean, like, in the same way that I fight with my loved ones, like I just. What's that?
- [43:25]
Sofia Vergara
Enjoying yourself?
- [43:26]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yes, very much. It's delicious.
- [43:27]
Sofia Vergara
Amazing.
- [43:29]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
So I've had Julie on the show, I've had Sarah on the show, you and Ed. I've asked them all, like, what that experience of ending the show was like for them especially, you know, right after. It didn't go in there, did it?
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Sofia Vergara
No.
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Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Salmon in your boot.
- [43:43]
Sofia Vergara
I'll find it tonight on my date.
- [43:46]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
On your date.
- [43:49]
Sofia Vergara
Thanks. Sophia, use my leg. Fish.
- [43:51]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. The salmon in my boob.
- [43:55]
Sofia Vergara
Like, oops, who's Jesse?
- [43:59]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
But having to finish that show and then going right into a pandemic where we didn't even get to see each other again. Like, it's already hard enough ending something that goes on for 11 years. You were into your. I never see you cry. You were?
- [44:13]
Sofia Vergara
Yeah, I never usually cry. I was crying, and I was not only crying there. I was, like, crying, like, a month before. Yeah, I think we all. The month before. The. The last episode, the last scene, it was really hard for us. It was everybody, you know, it's like we were a family. We never had a problem between each other. It was such a pleasure to go to that set. Right. It was like a dream.
- [44:37]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah.
- [44:37]
Sofia Vergara
And then the pandemic happened two weeks later, and we're all close. It was horrible. It was like, I didn't get to see you until, like, two years later.
- [44:48]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I know.
- [44:48]
Sofia Vergara
It's like.
- [44:49]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I know.
- [44:49]
Sofia Vergara
Ed was super happy because he moved into.
- [44:52]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Well, he was in Hawaii.
- [44:53]
Sofia Vergara
Hawaii. In his mansion in Hawaii.
- [44:55]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Although he's. He sort of got bored, I think, because I don't know about you, but he would call me randomly.
- [45:00]
Sofia Vergara
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Randomly.
- [45:02]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And sometimes it would be by accident. Like, I. It would. He'd FaceTime me, and I would just see, like, the side of his house. Like, he was, like. He would be holding his phone accidentally. FaceTime. So I just feel like seeing his wall.
- [45:14]
Sofia Vergara
But he doesn't even know I was like.
- [45:16]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And so I would, like, ed. Ed, it's me. And he would be like, justin, what are you doing on my phone?
- [45:20]
Sofia Vergara
You know, he does to me a lot. He leaves me messages, I think, because my name name is Sophia, and his daughter is Sophia.
- [45:25]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
That's hilarious.
- [45:26]
Sofia Vergara
He lives in messages all the time, but it's to the daughter.
- [45:31]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Do you call him and say that?
- [45:32]
Sofia Vergara
No. When I. When I know it's important things that she needs to know. I do. But when it's not really funny, and it's always.
- [45:42]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Did you tell her that something?
- [45:44]
Sofia Vergara
Yeah, it's like, Sophia. And he always starts, sophia is dad. I'm like. At the beginning, it was like, why is he. Why is he calling himself that to me? You know? And then I was like, oh, it's Sophia, the daughter.
- [45:55]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Oh, it's so funny. I love that. But that one lipstick, you know me.
- [46:00]
Sofia Vergara
Yeah. Yeah.
- [46:01]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Oh, my God. I'm gonna tell a story about our very first Emmy Awards. It was the first season of Honor Family. We were nominated for Best comedy. And the best comedy category was coming up and you were sitting in front of us and Julie was sitting next to me and you turned around and you said, put your lipstick on. We're going to win.
- [46:19]
Sofia Vergara
I'm like, really? Put your lipstick on. Cuz I turned around to. To, you know, to share with you guys the excitement. Now it's our turn. And then I see her. She had no lipstick on. I mean, to me that's. She looked at me like I was insane. And then we won and she. She never really thanked me. We were all over, remember, with those pictures up there?
- [46:48]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah, yeah.
- [46:49]
Sofia Vergara
And I did put my lipstick on. I'm not sure if she put it on, though.
- [46:53]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
No, probably not. It's really funny.
- [46:56]
Sofia Vergara
Are we going to order dessert or no?
- [46:58]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Do you want dessert?
- [46:59]
Sofia Vergara
Maybe not, because I'm gonna eat again soon.
- [47:01]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Are you want.
- [47:02]
Sofia Vergara
You eat super healthy.
- [47:04]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I'm eating. I'm eating with Justin tonight.
- [47:06]
Sofia Vergara
You eat a lot of garbage. And now, I mean, not like me.
- [47:11]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I did not eat a lot of garbage. You. I do remember there was a period of time I don't remember why this was happening, but you were just eating sugar. Do you remember? No. Sophia, you had a. You had a table, a countertop, cotton candy machine.
- [47:27]
Sofia Vergara
Well, yeah, but that doesn't mean that I only eat sugar. I ate.
- [47:31]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
And then on set you had a. Literally a thing of marshmallows. And it was labeled Sophia's do not touch.
- [47:38]
Sofia Vergara
Josh, the guy that was in charge of the props, he would hide them from me all over the set, in every room so that I could have little snacks in between.
- [47:47]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
One of marshmallows, one of hot tamales. And it always said, Sophia's hot tamales.
- [47:51]
Sofia Vergara
I haven't had hot tamales in a long time. I remember they love me.
- [47:56]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
You ate so much sugar.
- [47:57]
Sofia Vergara
They took such nice care of me. They did hide all those things so that I was happy on set. And then I would give them to everyone.
- [48:06]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Yeah. No, I knew where your stash was.
- [48:08]
Sofia Vergara
I shared. Yeah.
- [48:09]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Even though it said do not touch, I would absolutely crack it to them. Yeah, yeah.
- [48:13]
Sofia Vergara
Marshmallows. I do. I have a balance.
- [48:17]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Oh, I love you. Thank you for doing this.
- [48:21]
Sofia Vergara
Thank you, Jesse.
- [48:25]
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Dinner is on Me is a production of Sony Music Entertainment and a kid named Beckett Productions. It's hosted by me, Jesse Tyler Ferguson. It's executive produced by me and Jonathan Hirsch. Our showrunner is Joanna Clay. Our associate producer is Angela Vang. Sam Baer engineered this episode. Hans Dale. She composed our theme music. Our head of production is Sammy Allison. Special thanks to Tameka Balance Kolasny and Justin Makita. I'm Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Join me next week.