Jesse Tyler Ferguson: ‘I still can’t believe Modern Family was so successful, with that division of power’

The sitcom star speaks to Louis Chilton about playing Truman Capote on stage, losing out on community theatre roles to a teenage Neil Patrick Harris, and the behind-the-scenes schism during the making of ‘Modern Family’

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