--- title: Sophia Vergara on Jimmy Kimmel Live description: Sophia Vergara talks about watching Modern Family costar Ed ONeill on Married With Children in Colombia canonical: https://time.com/4034691/sophia-vergara-jimmy-kimmel-live-modern-family/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-15T15:07:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:44.197Z og:title: Sophia Vergara on Jimmy Kimmel Live og:description: Sophia Vergara talks about watching Modern Family costar Ed ONeill on Married With Children in Colombia og:url: https://time.com/4034691/sophia-vergara-jimmy-kimmel-live-modern-family/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sophia Vergara on Jimmy Kimmel Live twitter:description: Sophia Vergara talks about watching Modern Family costar Ed ONeill on Married With Children in Colombia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Sophia Vergara Explain Why She Once Found Ed O'Neill 'Very Sexy'  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 15, 2015 3:07 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 15, 2015 3:07 PM UTC On _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ Monday night, actress Sophia Vergara told the comedian that when she was growing up in Colombia she would watch _Modern Family_ co-star Ed O’Neill play Al Bundy on the sitcom _Married With Children._ She said she always thought he spoke Spanish — “he had a very sexy Antonio Banderas voice” — before she realized the show was dubbed for a non-American audience. A photo flashed across the screen during the segment that showed O’Neill reprising his role as Al Bundy and Vergara dressing like Peg Bundy as part of a shoot for _The_ _Hollywood Reporter_‘s upcoming list of “Hollywood’s 100 Favorite TV Shows” (due out September 25). _Modern Family_ returns for its seventh season on September 23. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4034691/sophia-vergara-jimmy-kimmel-live-modern-family/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4034691/sophia-vergara-jimmy-kimmel-live-modern-family/"},"headline":"Watch Sophia Vergara Explain Why She Once Found Ed O'Neill 'Very Sexy'","datePublished":"2015-09-15T15:07:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:44.197Z","description":"The Modern Family star was interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday night","url":"https://time.com/4034691/sophia-vergara-jimmy-kimmel-live-modern-family/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4034691/sophia-vergara-jimmy-kimmel-live-modern-family/","name":"Watch Sophia Vergara Explain Why She Once Found Ed O'Neill 'Very Sexy'"}}]}] ```