Actress Sofia Vergara plays the voluptuous Gloria Delgado-Prichett on ABC’s hit comedy “Modern Family” — a role that was based on, well, her.
The stark similarities to the character she plays on TV and the real life she leads are almost astounding and fun to watch — both are lively Colombian women with thick accents, are divorced and have a son from a previous marriage.
“Every time that I get a script … I’m like, ‘So, how am I gonna play this?’” Vergara said in an interview with “Nightline” anchor Cynthia McFadden. “I always think of my — about my mother and my aunt, and I guess that’s how I try to play [Gloria], because I try to play her like a real Latin woman. … So I think it does have a lot of myself.”
Not to mention that Vergara — and Gloria — are loud, funny and perfectly sexy women who can turn more than a few heads.
“I always felt like I look, you know, with extra boob than normal women, with extra butt,” she said. “I always have, you know, make-up and the hair, and I love big jewelry, so I feel like that.”
Vergara admits, again much like her character, that she has a “hot temper,” one that can “scare” the men if they haven’t gotten to know her yet.
“I can turn around and scream and get angry, but I turn around and I forget about it,” she said. “So it’s, like, one second that I get angry or fiery, and then I forget. Once they know me, they’re like, ‘Oh, she’s fine.’”
