Nolan Gould is grateful that he obtained the chance to painting Luke Dunphy on Modern Family for 11 seasons, however he admitted childhood stardom got here with some drawbacks.
Nolan, 25, appeared on an episode of former costar Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast to speak about his rise to fame. He defined that he had “by no means been to highschool a day in my life” as a consequence of touchdown the position at such a younger age.
He did make clear that he as soon as took a public talking class at a group faculty, however his final dream was to attend movie faculty. Nonetheless, after getting accepted into movie faculty, Trendy Household continued its success on ABC and obtained picked up for 2 extra seasons. Nolan needed to defer the provide twice. Ultimately, he was informed he was going to should reapply to the college.
“At that time, I used to be like, 21, and had a chip on my shoulder,” he confessed. “I used to be like, I’m not going to reapply to movie faculty and so identical to by no means went. … It closed a number of doorways to the form of ‘conventional way of life.’ … I discover it laborious to bond with folks in regards to the issues that everybody went via like, what was highschool like?”
Nolan began appearing when he was 5 and was homeschooled earlier than making his Trendy Household debut at age 10. He was 21 when the show ended in 2020 after 11 seasons.
“I simply had a lot time to sit down and take into consideration my life and the way a number of it was form of determined for me in a approach,” he mentioned of his mindset after the present ended.
In the end, Nolan determined to backpack and spend time outside after filming the present’s closing season.
“You study as a baby actor what to be and tips on how to behave, and this isn’t nearly Trendy Household, I believe we had an unimaginable set,” the New York native mentioned. “When you had been going to be a child rising up within the trade, that was the set to be on, however you get off and also you begin to unlearn all of this stuff, like, hopefully if you happen to undergo this course of [you] study who you might be.”
However ultimately, Nolan made it clear that he wouldn’t change a factor about his time on Trendy Household.
“So I don’t know. I’m pleased with the place I’m at now and I’m so glad I obtained to be part of the present,” he mentioned. “I wouldn’t change that.”
He did admit that if he had youngsters sooner or later, he most likely wouldn’t allow them to turn into youngster actors.
“I most likely wouldn’t let my children do it,” Nolan mentioned. “Though no disgrace to individuals who do, proper, as a result of I’ve clearly discovered a number of pleasure and love via it, and it opened up a number of actually unimaginable doorways, and likewise closed a number of significant ones.”