Modern Family: Scoop on Matthew Broderick's role in season 4 from E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos

Here's some scoop on Modern Family from Kristin Dos Santos' Spoiler Chat Daily for Tuesday 9/25/12.

Kyle: Love that Matthew Broderick is coming to Modern Family. Tell me more!
Fun fact: even though most celebrities are dying to cameo on TV's most celebrated show, creator Steven Levitan tells us that they were the ones who approached Broderick with the role, and not the other way around. "He didn't come to us. He's a very good friend of one of our writers, so it was a natural occurrence. Especially because we had Nathan Lane, we knew we had to have Matthew," he says. As for the rumor that Broderick will be playing a part in the accidental gay date that Phil goes on, Levitan only offered up this coy reply: "He is playing a friend of Phil's. A very special friend. That's all I'm saying!"

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