“I look like a ventriloquist is operating my voice.
I do not look like I’m speaking.
Jesse Tyler Fergusonis remembering his terrible experience re-recording dialogue for aModern Familyepisode after suffering a nasty vocal cord injury.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson on ‘Modern Family’.Gilles Mingasson/ABC
We had flown in guest stars for it.
Gilles Mingasson/ABC
He ended up telling producers that he would be unable to speak until he was fully healed.
I was so mad.
Like, I had tears welling up my eyes.
In the end, the producers agreed and shot the episode without Ferguson making a sound.
I mouthed my lines on a microphone later.
It was terrible,” he said.
“I see that every once in a while that episode pops up and I can fully…
I look like a ventriloquist is operating my voice.
I do not look like I’m speaking.
I went a whole week without talking and it drove me crazy, it was torture.
Listen to Ferguson recall the incident in the clip above.
