-That's what I'm talking about. They love you.
We love you. Welcome back.
-Whew, been a long time, huh?
-I think it's been a while.
-I want to say I have missed you,
but I didn't even remember how long
until the producers called me
and told me it was, like, seven years.
-Because you were nice enough to do Zooms, right?
-Oh, we did Zooms, but it's not the same.
-No, no. This is --
I'm so happy to see you in person. I missed you.
-I know. Do I look better or worse?
-You look better. Are you kidding me? Phenomenal.
You always do. Are you kidding me? Please.
-Been so long!
-I was going to ask you, though, because I know
you lived in New York City for a while.
-Yeah.
-But I don't think that you are great with cold,
I would say.
I don't know why. Am I wrong?
-I mean, why, because I'm Latin and I'm hot-blooded and...
-Yes. -You know, from the Caribbean.
-Yes, all of those.
-Those are the reasons I'm not good with the cold.
-You're not? -No, I have panic attack
when I woke up this morning and I saw the snow.
And I'm like, "We have to cancel
this whole world tour for 'Griselda' because..."
-We'll reschedule. We'll do it next year.
-I don't think I can do it. -Do it in the summer.
Yeah. -But it was okay. I put --
I don't have boots for snow.
-No? -No, I don't.
So I was like, oh, with this, and here we go.
-That's the way you do it. Yeah.
Why do you like New York City?
-I love it. Who doesn't love it, New York City?
I mean, it's the people.
[ Cheering ]
It's the energy.
I think that you have more options with men, also.
[ Cheering ]
I'm single now. -That's right, you're single.
-So in New York, there's more people.
There's not only like actors or, you know,
or directors.
I think there's, like, a bigger --
I'm going to spend more time in New York.
-Really? -Yeah.
[ Cheering ]
-So people are just interested
in just stuff that they're interested in, yeah.
And also it's just great food here in New York, too.
-There's great food for when you go out on dates.
It's better, yes. -Yeah.
You had a party at your house,
and it was a "Modern Family" reunion.
Look at this. -Aww.
[ Cheers and applause ] -It made me so happy.
Some of the most talented people, right there.
Funny, funny human beings.
-Can you believe that
we finished Modern Family in 2020,
and, you know, it was so emotional.
We were all like, "We have to be together a lot.
We cannot just separate."
And then two weeks later, the pandemic hit.
-Wow.
And so we didn't see each other for almost --
it's going to be four years until I did this thing
in my house in November. -Wow.
-Was it emotional? -It was weird.
It was crazy, because we we were together 11 years,
five days a week.
-That's more than your family.
-Yeah, it was hard.
But, you know, we're always on chats,
and the only one that is not really good
because he's very old, is Ed O'Neill, so...
He's not good with them.
What?
-He's not texting?
-He's not good with the texting.
We joke about something
or we say something, and he reacts like,
26 weeks later, it says...
-And then nobody knows what -- -26 weeks?
-Yeah, nobody knows what he's talking about.
-It's like, "Ed, that was last month."
-Yeah, that was last year.
-It was last year actually, yeah.
When you get together and you make each other laugh,
do you ever think like, "Oh, maybe it's time for a reboot?"
-No, it's only been four years.
-How long do you have to wait for a reboot?
-I don't know, but it doesn't seem right.
I feel like they need -- we need a little more time.
Well, but we don't have much time because Ed is old, so...
[ Laughter ]
-You have to do it, like, at least do
a holiday special, maybe. -Yeah, we should.
Yeah, you should produce it.
-Done.
I like your style, yes.
I'm fascinated by your career, by the way,
because I know we talked before on the show.
You started in, like, dental school, right?
-Yes. -And then you became a model,
and then you were a travel show host.
-Yeah.
-Then you were a famous comedic actor,
and now you're a dramatic actor?
-Supposedly.
-No.
You've been working on this for a while.
-Yeah, like, for 15 years.
But it was, like, a lot of things happening.
It was a very, you know, controversial character.
She's a woman.
She was one of the biggest drug dealers
that ever existed in Colombia.
And she was not really well-known.
And I think it was fascinating for me,
because one of the reasons why she was able to get away
with so much was actually because she was a woman,
and they were never thinking that a woman was capable
of doing all the horrific things that she did.
The character is insane.
I mean, it was a woman that was raising
four kids while she was becoming, you know, a monster.
-Yeah, I mean, I know Pablo Escobar.
-You know him? -No, no, no.
No, I never met him. I never met him, never.
He's really bad at texting.
26 weeks later, he gets back to me.
No, but I didn't know her story at all.
-No one, not even in Colombia, you know?
And I grew up in the '80s, in the '70s, the '80s, the '90s,
and it was like, everybody knew who they were.
You know, the United States was looking for them.
I grew up during that time. I know that business.
You know, my brother was part of that business.
He was killed in the '90s.
I was very, like, I know this character.
I think I can do it.
Some actors need to like,
if they're going to play a doctor,
they have to sit in a hospital for a while
or if they're going to play an astronaut,
they hang out with the astronauts.
I didn't have to do anything,
because I lived there, unfortunately,
so I was like, I think I can play her.
So hopefully, people will like it.
-It's beautiful. It's well-directed, by the way.
It's Miami? -It's Miami,
but everything was filmed in Los Angeles.
But I mean, the casting is amazing.
It's mostly Latin American actors,
the best Latin American actors right now.
The director is an amazing director
that I wanted to to work with, Andy Baiz.
And he was my anchor during the filming,
because I had never done anything but Gloria Pritchett.
I don't know anything.
And he taught me how to smoke.
He taught me how to do cocaine. He taught me --
-Alright, alright, hold on, hold on.
He's done a lot --
He's done a lot of great things for you.
-He would go to my house before,
when I was getting ready to play this character,
and we would sit, and he told me all these things, and you know,
it was amazing, because I was 51 years old
and I didn't even know how to, you know,
how to light a cigarette.
I had never done cocaine.
It was amazing. It was a great experience.
[ Laughter ]
-No. No! -Absolutely no.
-The show was. -You're confusing me!
was a great experience.
-No, you're confusing me now with the questions.
-The show was a great experience.
-The experience, yes. -The drugs --
-The cocaine that I did was fake.
-It's not real cocaine. It's fake cocaine.
-Yes, you're an actor. -But I had to pretend.
-The cigarettes are also fake.
Everything was. It's fake.
But the acting was real.
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
-That's the best.
That's the best line ever. I want to show everyone a clip.
The acting is real here.
Sofia Vergara in "Griselda". Take a look at this.
-I already have a supplier, so...
-Yeah.
But you just took out territory.
I think you're gonna need a lot more.
I seem to remember you saying you were all about volume.
Just think about how much more you can make cutting mine.
-You can get more, huh?
'Cause, I mean, you look like..
-Like a housewife covered in blood?
I moved cocaine for 10 years, Medellin to New York,
and you have no idea what I have gone through since.
So to me, this is nothing.
-Yes!
Sofia Vergara, everybody.
Sofia and I are doing something fun after the break.
Stick around.