Julie Bowen’s Kids Have ‘No Interest in Being Actors’

Julie Bowen doesn’t anticipate her youngsters to comply with in her Hollywood footsteps any time quickly. Nevertheless, she did lately work with them on a special project.

The Modern Family actress partnered with Hyundai for a social media collection highlighting teen driver security. As a mother of three teenage boys, Oliver, John and Gustav, the message of the marketing campaign was crucial for Julie, 54.

“I don’t know if Hyundai truly knew that I drive a Hyundai. … I like my automobile very a lot. They could have reached out organically understanding that, and that I even have three teen sons who’re all on the learning-to-drive age,” she instructed First for Women in an interview printed on Sunday, October 27.

“Once they requested to accomplice with me, additionally they requested to accomplice with my sons,” she revealed. “My youngsters don’t have any curiosity by any means in being actors, however they thought it was cool that they’d get to find out about this automobile. It was actually enjoyable to do a mission with them as a result of they aren’t going to be actors, however they bought to be in my world a bit of bit in a spot the place it was about their world. It was a superb crossover.”

Julie shares her youngsters with ex-husband Scott Philips, whom she divorced in 2018.

“I’m actually grateful for youths who’re protected and defensive drivers,” the Blissful Gilmore star shared with the outlet. “I inform my youngsters on a regular basis, ‘Each particular person on the highway is drunk! They’re all drunk they usually’re all on their telephones, each final considered one of them!’ So it’s a must to depend on your expertise and your instruments.”

Quite a lot of the feedback on her social media marketing campaign video identified how a lot Julie is rather like her Trendy Household character, Claire Dunphy, in actual life. One factor that’s for sure about her relationships along with her youngsters, is that Julie approaches parenting with a humorousness like Claire.

“I at all times thought, ‘I’m on a TV present that’s a comedy and other people assume I’m humorous, so absolutely my youngsters will assume I’m humorous,’ however no,” she confessed. “Typically I really feel such as you want a humorousness extra for your self. There are occasions after I really feel like I’m trying round the home for the digicam, for somebody to take a look at and go, ‘Are you kidding me? Is that this actually taking place?’ like Claire was in a position to do in Trendy Household. In actual life, in the event you simply roll your eyes at them, that doesn’t go nicely.”

Julie went on to clarify that she tries to “modulate” her tone so she will “be loud and remind myself to chuckle on the issues that they assume are humorous even after I don’t assume they’re.”

“And it’s a must to have a humorousness after they’re on a three-day streak of not washing dishes,” the mother of three continued. “I’ve additionally taken to photographing their socks and underwear in all of the locations I discover them round the home, as a result of that makes me chuckle, versus yelling at them.”