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Jesse Tyler Ferguson is getting candid about the "responsibility" he felt to the LGBTQ community while starring in 'Modern Family.' The actor, who played Mitchell for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020, recently shared on his 'Dinner's on Me' podcast that he believed there was "no way to please" everyone when it came to his role on the ABC sitcom.

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00:00Jesse Tyler Ferguson is getting candid about the responsibility he felt to the LGBTQ community

00:05while starring in Modern Family. The actor who played Mitchell for 11 seasons from 2009 to 2020

00:12recently shared on his Dinners on Me podcast that he believed there was no way to please everyone

00:18when it came to his role on the ABC sitcom. I was in the trenches fighting for marriage equality

00:23and I felt so lucky to be part of a pop culture touchstone that was also part of that same issue.

00:28He admitted to also feeling a responsibility from the LGBTQ community when I was given a role like

00:34the one I had on Modern Family to get it right and to do it with care and precision. He added,

00:39it was tricky for me because I had to tune out that noise of a community wanting me to do it

00:43correctly and preciously and you know my desire to do it with nuance and levels and layers and also

00:48poignancy. I just felt like there was no way to please both camps. Ferguson said he's finally

00:53letting go of the pressure he once felt. I'm now in a place where I'm as an actor being given a

00:58role where I'm attracted to the messiness of that character. I'm attracted to their flaws.

01:02Like that's what makes it interesting and honestly that's what makes the audience

01:05interested in watching me. He noted, I felt like, you know, at least in the first few seasons of

01:10Modern Family being put on a pedestal in a way as far as like, okay, this is a gay couple that's

01:15on network television on a huge show. They better get this right. For more on this interview,

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