THE ONE WITH DRAMA Sofia Vergara says Jennifer Aniston helped with Griselda role – but another star guided her to ‘act out the bad stuff’

The actress opened up about taking on her most challenging project to date

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SOFIA Vergara has revealed an unlikely friendship with actress Jennifer Aniston who helped her perfect her part in Griselda.

The star, 51, won rave reviews for her role as “The Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries.

But she was nervous about making the switch from comedy to drama after years on Modern Family.

Speaking at a Netflix FYSEE event in Los Angeles, Sofia said, “I don’t want to say that I have things that are similar with [Griselda], but there [are], because I [am] a woman, Colombian mother, single mother, an immigrant.”

“There were many similarities. And so I kind of understood that. But it was so much work to get the whole project going,” Sofia explained.

“The last three months before shooting, I was like, ‘How am I going to do this? I need to find some

“I knew there was no way that I was going to learn how to act in three months.

“So I was like, at least somebody to help me understand every scene because of the English. Sometimes I have a lot of problems.

“And so I thought, ‘What actors that I love have been doing comedy and are now doing drama?’

“So I found the person that helped… Jennifer Aniston.”