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Jesse Tyler Ferguson Says Unemployment Paid ‘More’ Than Off-Broadway Gigs


Jesse Tyler Ferguson reflected on the start of his career as an actor and struggling to get paid

I got my equity card pretty easily [when] I did Shakespeare in the Park,” Ferguson, 49, told Kathy Bates during the Tuesday, January 14, episode of his “ Dinner’s on Me ” podcast, which was taped before the Los Angeles wildfires broke out last week. Jesse Tyler Ferguson has nothing but love for his Modern Family costars — even if his TV daughter, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, sometimes leaves him on read. “We both call each other this, but it started off as ‘Baby boy,’” Ferguson, 49, exclusively reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly, referring to his husband, Justin Mikita.

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