Throughout Modern Family’s 11-season run, the cast had been through a lot together, both personally and professionally. Even five years after the sitcom ended, they are all still close and holding Modern Family reunions from time to time. While it's clear they all look back on this experience fondly, not everything they went through on set was great, which was made clear as Jesse Tyler Ferguson reflected on the Modern Family cast being with Nathan Lane when news of Robin Williams’ death broke.
Ferguson’s latest guest on his Dinner’s On Me podcast was Josh Hutcherson, and at one point, the two got to talking about Robin Williams, whom The Hunger Games actor worked with on RV. Williams’ death in 2014 took the world by surprise, and Ferguson explained that he found out about it during one of Nathan Lane’s many appearances on Modern Family as Pepper Saltzman. Now, famously, Lane had worked with Williams on an iconic movie; however, the Mitchell actor completely forgot about it when they learned of his death:
