Sarah Hyland is opening up, and revealing that she almost didn’t get the role of Haley Dunphy on Modern Family.
The 32-year-old actress and current host of Love Island USA says she was once told she was too old for the part!
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During an interview with Buzzfeed, Sarah revealed that she was almost turned away because she was older than the character’s age.
“Originally, they didn’t want to see me for Modern Family because I was 18 and Haley’s character was 15. They were like, ‘She’s too old,’” she recalled. “And at the time, my agent’s assistant fought for me to get in the room. She was like, ‘She doesn’t look 18 years old, I promise you! She looks very, very young!’”
Sarah went on to reveal that they didn’t even put her on tape for the first reading.
“I went in and they pre-read me for the cast — like, they didn’t put my audition on the tape — and then he brought in the casting director,” she says. “The casting director, Jeff [Greenberg], had me read and then he was like, ‘Okay, now do it again, and now I’ll put it on tape.’ They just were very much like, ‘She’s too old. She’s 18.’”
As fans know, Sarah ended up playing the character for all 11 seasons of the hit ABC series.
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