Modern Family Cast Reunites at 2024 SAG Awards — but Julie Bowen Is Distracted by Ryan Gosling

Julie Bowen, Ed O'Neill, Sofía Vergara, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell presented the Ensemble in a Comedy Award to 'The Bear'


The Dunphy-Pritchetts are back together—for one night, at least.

Modern Family cast members Julie Bowen, Ed O’Neill, Sofía Vergara, Ty Burrell, Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson reunited on stage at the 2024 SAG Awards to present the Ensemble in a Comedy Award to the cast of FX’s The Bear.

Modern Family aired for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020 and took home the Ensemble in a Comedy Award four times during its run.

“This really, this really [is] bringing back memories. You guys ever miss it?” O’Neill asked his former costars after they assembled on stage. 

“Oh, hell yeah, but of course we had a great time, 11 seasons, 250 episodes,” replied his on-screen daughter Bowen, before growing distracted by one of the stars of Barbie.

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“Come on. It's Ryan Gosling,” she said, before recovering. “I'm sorry... 250 episodes, it never happens.”

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“It’s happened twice to me,” quipped O’Neill, who starred as crude patriarch Al Bundy on the 1987-97 Fox comedy Married…With Children.

O’Neill’s Modern Family wife, Vergara, then mentioned that her Netflix show Griselda, about infamous drug lord Griselda Blanco, is “already number one in 90 countries.”

Ryan Gosling arrives at the 39th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival: 16th Annual Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film Honoring Ryan Gosling at Ritz-Carlton Bacara Resort & Spa on January 13, 2024 in Santa Barbara, California.
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“Okay yeah, Jesse pay up—I told you she’d mention in the first 10 seconds,” joked Stonestreet.

Ferguson admitted he sometimes gets “a little nostalgic for the golden days. You know, it's been a life after a big hit show, it can be nice too, right?”

“I didn't want to get emotional up here,” O’Neill replied, “but you know what I miss about it most of all?”

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The cast of 'Modern Family'. BOB D'AMICO/ABC

“Going to work every day,” answered Burrell.

“The money,” O’Neill quipped in response.

“Is it too early to talk about a reboot?” asked Ferguson, before joking. “They made me park a mile away from here.”

In 2022, Ferguson confirmed a script was written for a planned spin-off that ABC ultimately scrapped.

"The script's out there and it's very good," he told Entertainment Tonight. "So, you know, who knows? If someone wants to produce it, maybe."

See PEOPLE's full coverage of the 30th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards as they stream live on Netflix.

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