Sofía Vergara Reveals the One Thing She Was Nervous About When Filming Her First-Ever Sex Scene

When Sofía Vergara signed up to star in Griselda on Netflix, many aspects of the role were daunting. After all, the role was not only her first dramatic role in Hollywood but it’s based on a real-life drug lord who committed some nasty crimes in her day. But, all that aside, it seems another part of filming was especially intimidating for Vergara.

When asked if there was ever a moment she felt out of her depth during filming at a Netflix FYSEE event this week, Vergara answered without any hesitation. “The sex scene,” she answered, per The Sun.

“I don’t think I’ve ever done like a sex scene,” Vergara reflected, adding that she’d never had to do any steamy scenes with Ed O’Neil in Modern Family.

Why was she nervous, you may ask? “I’m 50!” she said. “I mean, when I was 30, I wouldn’t have worried. I think I was worried that I was going to look horrific.”

“I was like, ‘Where are they shooting me? The cellulite? From the side,” she remembered. “Uh, I’m vain I guess. That one kept me awake I think.”

Unfortunately, the sex scene was just one of the many things keeping Vergara up at night during filming.

“I’ve only done Modern Family, really, so I didn’t know what I was walking into,” Vergara told fellow A-list actresses in a recent roundtable interview for The Hollywood Reporter. “And when I arrived, I realized this is different, and it’s hard when you have to cry and kill and choke and snort cocaine and drink alcohol. And I’d never in my life touched a cigarette. Never. I had to learn and to learn at 50 years old to smoke and you’re going to be in every single scene smoking.”