Jesse Tyler Fergusons Vater fragte einmal, warum das moderne Familienalum „so viele schwule Teile“ aufgenommen hat

> „My family, they went through their own process with me being gay,“ Ferguson said on the podcast. „My dad even asked me, while I was doing Modern Family, he’s like, ‚I just don’t always understand why you have played so many gay parts.‘ It opened up a whole conversation between the two of us, and started a whole other level of our relationship.”

> The actor continued to share that he explained to his dad „why it was important for me to play this role. Because, socially, I wanted to be able to portray a gay man on television. I felt like it was gonna do wonderful things for the marriage equality movement, which it did.“