Why Frances Anderson Stepped Away From Acting After Modern Family

“I’ve been told I’m a 30-year-old in a kid’s body,” Jeremy Maguire told E! News in an exclusive 2024 interview. “I’ve been told I’m an old soul. Which, I do think that of myself, too.”

Born in 2011—two years before the series made its debut on ABC—he joined the fam in 2015 as Joe Pritchett, Gloria and husband Jay Pritchett’s son. “When you’re growing up and there’s a camera in front of your face, sometimes you don’t wrap your head around the fact that these aren’t your actual family,” he explained to E!. “And that’s just really hard, especially for me because, you know, I love everybody. After Modern ended, I was so sad ’cause only life I’ve ever known.”

He rebounded quickly, however, appearing in all 12 episodes of Disney’s Turner & Hooch reboot in 2021. And should the right part not come his way, he’s ready to write it himself. “It’s very therapeutic,” he said. “I’ve done poems or stories, or little treatments for scripts I thought would be fun to maybe work on in the future.”