Julie Bowen really doesn’t want you to see her do a table-read.
Which is going to be a problem.
The “Modern Family” star is good enough on camera to have won two Emmy awards, but without the opportunity to use her physical skills, she says she falls apart.
“I still can’t tell a joke,” Bowen confessed Tuesday at TheWrap’s fourth annual Media Leadership Conference, TheGrill. “I get very anxious doing straight comedy, and I hate table reads with the passion of a thousand burning suns.”
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Unfortunately for Bowen, she’ll be subject to that searing agony next month, which she learned onstage at the Beverly Hills Montage.