“They really kept a solid ground underneath me,” Rico, 27, told ABC News in a 2016 interview. “And they kept me down to earth.”
In fact, when he goes back home, he insisted that he doesn’t get any star treatment.
“When [I’m] acting, I’m putting on a character,” Rico continued, “but when I’m home I’m Rico—Rico that still has to take out the trash, do my chores around the house and then do schooling and stuff like that so I really credit my mom and dad.”
And as for his Modern Family costars, they also treat him like one of their own.
“We are so thankful to be working together,” Rico told CBS News in 2016. “It’s such a fantastic cast and I know I can speak for everyone and say we love working with each other.”
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