'Making ends meet': Jesse Tyler Ferguson reveals he met Jane Krakowski when he was a barista at Starbucks

Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson has revealed the rather "unusual" way he first met fellow actor and 30 Rock star, Jane Krakowski.

Krakowski appeared on Ferguson's Dinner's On Me podcast this week when he revealed that well before he was famous, he worked as a barista at a Starbucks in New York City.

He said Krakowski once recognised him when he waited by the stage door with fans after one of her Broadway shows and they soon worked out that she knew him from his time working at Starbucks.

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Reflecting on how it made him feel at the time, Ferguson, 48, said Krakowski, 55, made him feel "so seen".

"You come in and you see me, and you say, 'This is where I know you from?'" he explained.

"You know, every actor understands you do what you need to do to, like, make ends meet. I felt so seen by you because I was like, 'I don't wanna be a barista forever.' I'm not bemoaning that at all.

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"Like, it's what I was doing at the time, and I was, you know, making ends meet. But I had such high dreams and hopes for myself... So having you ask me how things was going was really powerful."

He added: "And I feel like that was one of the first times that I thought the Broadway community is actually a community of people, it doesn't matter where you are on that journey, it's just a wonderful group of people."

Krakowski added about recognising him all those years ago: "I remember coming in, and every morning, I'd order my coffee."

"And I guess just at the backstage of the theatre, I knew I knew you because it's such a familiar person that you get to know every single morning... and then to put it into context that you're an actor too."

She added: "It's an usual relationship we have based on that."

Ferguson worked in theatre in New York before landing role a TV role.

But most fans would recognise him for his role on ABC's sitcom Modern Family which he starred on from 2009 to 2020.

The cast are so close, Ferguson even officiated Sarah Hyland's wedding to Wells Adams.

"I was like, 'Well, no pressure, this is my first time, and then it's going to be a wedding, and it's going to be in Vogue magazine, and there's also going to be paparazzi shots of me from a helicopter, officiating, no pressure'," he told ET.

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