VIDEO: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Talks Keeping His 'Modern Family' Character Fresh & More

In Variety's new series "Actors on Actors" presented by Autograph Collection "Episodes" star Matt LeBlanc and "Modern Family" star Jesse Tyler Ferguson, now appearing in Shakespeare in the Park, discuss their successful television careers and offer advice.

Asked how he keeps his "Modern Family" character fresh, Tyler Ferguson comments, "I feel that with these characters, I always feel, you sort of fall into a pattern and you fall into stereotypes and there is, I think, a part of the audience that doesn't want to see you be something else, and doesn't want to see you change too much and grow too much. They tune in to see a very specific thing. They don't want you to reinvent the wheel."

He continues, "So I feel keeping it fresh really falls onto the backs of the writers and coming up with great storylines. And I think they've done a pretty fantastic job, actually. This past season we didn't have any over-arching theme. We didn't have a wedding, we didn't have babies coming. It was just life as usual. And I feel like that almost reset the show in a way. It brought it back to a show about families. It doesn't have to be super crazy and it's just finding the comedy within the everyday situation."

Watch the interview in full below!

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