“They sent me out on comedy auditions,” she recalled toAndy RichteronThe Three Questions.
“I couldn’t do them,” she said.
I go, ‘What?’
Julie Bowen on ‘Modern Family’.Eric McCandless via Getty
They’re like, ‘Not technically.'"
The actress was baffled by the comparison: “I said, ‘She just won like five Emmys.’
They’re like, ‘Yes.
Julie Bowen falling down on ‘Modern Family’.Evans Ward/ABC via Getty
So she’s funny in a different way.
She’s not three-jokes-a-page funny.
And yet she is wildly funny.
give a shot to be Helen Hunt.'”
I fell down a lot."
Bowen thought she fared better on comedy-drama hybrids likeEd, on which she starred from 2000 to 2004.
“Edwas during when dramedy was a thing,” she said.
“There was likeAlly McBealat the time.
And all things could exist at once.
That was a long time ago.”
“I didn’t think I gotModern Familybecause I was so pregnant,” she recalled.
And I was like, ‘I’ve got a shot at that one.'"
She initially prioritized the other sitcom pilot because she needed job security.
“I’m never going to getModern Family.
You guys keep calling me in and staring at my big giant stomach,” she remembered thinking.
“So I said, ‘I need the job.’
Like you need the job that’s going to pay the bills, that’s got legs.”
Listen to the full conversation between Bowen and Richter above.
