{"id":289184,"date":"2020-03-09T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1129283"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T14:07:39","slug":"ed-oneill-thought-julie-bowen-would-have-to-be-sedated-after-modern-family-finished-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ed-oneill-thought-julie-bowen-would-have-to-be-sedated-after-modern-family-finished-filming\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed O&#8217;Neill Thought Julie Bowen Would Have to be Sedated After Modern Family Finished Filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202029\/rs_1024x683-200309070332-1024-ed-ellen-ch-030920.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Ed O'Neill\" alt=\"Ed O'Neill\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"683\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Michael Rozman\/Warner Bros. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.816831683168\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"22.752475247525\">\n<p>Well, well, well. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/julie_bowen\">Julie Bowen<\/a><\/strong> said one thing, then did the other when it came time to say farewell to <em>Modern Family<\/em>. While on <em>The Ellen DeGeneres Show<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1119631\/why-julie-bowen-plans-to-skip-modern-family-s-final-cry-fest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bowen previously said<\/a> she did her fair share of crying and didn&#8217;t plan to stick around for the last day of shooting cry fest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve definitely done the walking around and saying to people, \u2018I love you, working together has been amazing, but come that last day I&#8217;m out of here. I&#8217;m going to be gone. I&#8217;m not hanging out for the crying fest.&#8217; Because I imagine it&#8217;s going to be like a big amoeba of weeping, just sort of people hugging and crying. I can&#8217;t do it,&#8221; Bowen said.<\/p>\n<p>But she did, according to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ed_oneill\">Ed O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/strong>, Bowen&#8217;s TV dad on <em>Modern Family<\/em>. When asked who was the most emotional on the day they wrapped their 11-season run, O&#8217;Neill quickly named Bowen.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.703883495146\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.4174757281553\">\n<p>&#8220;Well, I&#8217;d have to say Julie, Julie Bowen. I thought she was going to have to be sedated and carried out,&#8221; he told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ellen_degeneres\">Ellen DeGeneres<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;Everybody was having their moments and I&#8217;m going, \u2018Let&#8217;s get it done.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"37.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"15\">\n<p>When others pointed out how unemotional he was, O\u2019Neill said, \u201cFour months from now I\u2019ll be getting a massage, I\u2019ll burst into tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill previously spent 11 seasons as Al Bundy on <em>Married\u2026With Children<\/em> and there couldn&#8217;t be more if a difference with the end of that show and <em>Modern Family<\/em>. <em>Married\u2026With Children<\/em> was canceled between seasons, so the cast wasn&#8217;t there to say goodbye to each other. In fact, O&#8217;Neill said he found out <em>Married\u2026With Children<\/em> was over while leaving a bed and breakfast in Ohio. A newlywed couple approached him and said they loved his show, but they were &#8220;so sorry about it, though.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>A confused O&#8217;Neill asked what they meant, and they told him the cancellation news was all over the radio. &#8220;I&#8217;d rather hear it from you,&#8221; he said he told them.<\/p>\n<p>By the time he heard from the network, he said it was six weeks later and they apologized for dropping the ball in communications.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"10\">\n<p>What&#8217;s next for O&#8217;Neill? &#8220;I&#8217;m going to finish this water and then\u2026Honestly, Ellen, I&#8217;ve never made a plan in my life. I&#8217;ll just go along and see what happens. I&#8217;m happy that we got the job done and it was a wonderful job,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Modern Family<\/em> airs Wednesdays, 9 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch E!&#8217;s <i>Modern Family<\/i> marathon Sunday, March 22 starting at 12 noon to relive the biggest moments from the past 11 years! The <i>Modern Family<\/i> series finale airs Wednesday, Apr. 8 at 9 p.m. on ABC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1129283\/ed-o-neill-thought-julie-bowen-would-have-to-be-sedated-after-modern-family-finished-filming?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Rozman\/Warner Bros. Well, well, well. Julie Bowen said one thing, then did the other when it came time to say farewell to Modern Family. While on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Bowen previously said she did her fair share of crying and didn&#8217;t plan to stick around for the last day of shooting cry fest. 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