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Jesse Tyler Ferguson got his fair share of parenting lessons playing Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family — his character had a baby in season one and a tween by the time the series ended 11 years later. He thinks about them frequently now that he and his husband Justin Mikita are dads to Beckett, 5, and Sullivan, 3, making Father’s Day a special celebration, even if the kids are too young to really understand it.
“I have to sort of sell it like it’s my birthday, but it’s not my birthday,” he says. “Then they want to know if they can have an extra day in the year that’s not their birthday, like a kid’s day.”
Ferguson’s ideal Father’s Day is laidback: being surrounded by loved ones, sharing good food and spending time outside together. He’ll get some of that this year, but he’s splitting his time between home and the theater. Ferguson’s run as King Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar just started at The London Palladium, and his family traveled to Europe with him. “It’s like a family vacation, but I’m working — I love doing theater though, so it doesn’t really feel like work when I’m doing it,” he says.
