Nolan Gould Sings Shawn Mendes & Talks Modern Family's Ending

What's going on guys? Hanging with me right now. I have Nolan Gould and it's early in the morning guys. It's real early. We're in San Diego. This is so cool.

This is awesome. I can't believe you guys have an actual like Young Hollywood bus.

I know. We're just the coolest, right? It's super inconspicuous. Um,

Thanks. That's what we were going for. There's just tons of people looking in on us right now. Do you feel exposed?

I, I do feel exposed. I feel like we've seen you like everywhere. We saw you at um, at set. Modern Family. Yes. Yeah.

It's such a nice feeling like when you want to go to work or like you when I don't work for a week and I'm just like, "Man, I want to get back."

E3? At E3. Come on, Batman, you want some? Uh oh. When we went to set with you, you sang Shawn Mendes.

Oh, yeah. Love it when you go crazy, baby. There's nothing holding me back.

You broke our YouTube I think because everyone just loved it so much. I just wanted to congratulate you on that. It was great. Is this is this your is this your way of hinting that you want me to sing Shawn Mendes again?

I mean, if it'll wake you up and you're there It is in my blood. Okay. I can't Yeah, I can't hit the full set of those. My voice just cracked. I want another chance. Wait. It is in my blood. All right, this is just getting worse. This is going to go viral but for the wrong reasons.

For the best reasons though. Well, Comic Con, we do have to talk about that. You've been here now five Comic Cons. Is that right? This is your fifth?

Yeah, five five or six years. That's crazy. Yeah.

So what's like your favorite thing now? You've seen so much of it. Is there anything that kind of stands out to you now?

I've kind of found like I don't know, really cool and like unique, like walking around um in between the booths. I see like the same artists every year. And then so I come back and like check up and see like how their art's doing and like how it's progressed. So, I don't know, it's kind of cool. You like form um connections over Comic Con like by going to Comic Con for so many years. That's so cool. Yeah, for sure. Um, I also I I got into comic books this year. As like as an as an adult, yeah.

Oh, that's cool though. I didn't realize Comic Con actually had comic books. Yeah. So, what which one are you reading? Any one in particular?

Um, yeah, I'm reading like, all right, they're not technically comic books. They're graphic novels.

Okay.

Sounds a little cooler. Yeah. Um, graphic novels I'm reading, uh, Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan. And also his other series, Saga.

Awesome. Yeah. Very cool. Well, I do want to talk to you about Modern Family because so many emotions. Final season's about to air. What's going on through your head and your heart? Tell the fans.

It's going to be the end of an era. I think, for sure. Yeah. I'd say so. And I don't know what like literally I pictured Modern Family ending and then I just see me for the next eight months crying in my room.

Aw, so sad.

Playing Shawn Mendes, In My Blood. It's a good time to cry to. Yeah. Good song to cry to. Yeah. Um, But yeah, you know, I mean, I I love I love Modern Family. I love um, my TV family and getting to work there every day is just an ultimate blessing. But I am excited for the uh, ability to go and work on other things and kind of um, spread my wings, so to say, as an actor and show everyone what else I can do.

Yeah, for sure. Do you have like one favorite memory or maybe scene out of Modern Family, from like start to finish?

If it's just a scene where Phil Dunphy comes running in and he's screaming about something completely silly like how like the vending machine has a super old candy bar that was discontinued like 20 years ago, because that's how old our motel is. Uh huh. And I mean like I just think Ty is so funny that I legit can never make eye contact with him during the entire scene. So you'll see us acting together but like my eyeline is slightly off and his eyeline is slightly off because like if we knew if we made eye contact with each other, we would just break.

Really?

Yeah. And it just reminds me of what every day and every scene of Modern Family is like.

That's so fun. It's such a fun show. I I think everyone's going to miss it once it finally comes to that final end. Yeah. And speaking of your fans, I'm sure you guys have been recognized out so many times or there's fun fan experiences. Is there like one really funny story of a fan like running up to you in the streets or anything like that?

I've been having a lot of fun with people who recognize me, but they're wrong about where they think I'm from.

Oh, really?

Or they they get some detail wrong. Like I had someone came come up yesterday and asked me if I was Nathaniel Gold.

Nathaniel.

To which I replied, "No." And I wasn't lying. Right. I'm not Nathaniel Gold. I had someone um, she's like, "Oh my God, it's him." She runs up and she's like, "You're from Wizards of Waverly Place." And I just yelled, "No."

No. And I walked away. You walked away? Oh no. I think she'll never know how close she was. Yeah. All right. Well, maybe now she will if she ever watches this interview. Oh Nolan, thank you so much. You're always a pleasure. Hope to still do things with you, you know, after Modern Fam. Keep us posted on what you're up to.

Of course. I'll see you at the next nerdy event, whatever it is.

Whatever it is, yeah.