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Ariel Winter & ‘Modern Family’ Cast Joining March For Our Lives With Parkland Students

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Add the cast of Modern Family to the growing number of people advocating for reform of the country’s gun laws.

In a video posted Wednesday by Everytown for Gun Safety, nine stars of the Emmy-winning ABC family comedy — Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Nolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, Ed O’Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Sofia Vergara, and Ariel Winter — expressed support for the students of the Florida high school where 17 people were killed in a shooting last month, and vowed to join them on their crusade for change.

“We send our condolences and support to the students of Parkland — and people everywhere fighting for common-sense gun laws,” the cast says in the video. “Your bravery and resolve in response to this senseless tragedy inspires us and gives us hope, that someday our lawmakers will stop putting the interests of the NRA ahead of what’s best for our children. You’ve shown young people, you’ve shown everyone, that it is not enough to just like posts and retweet. We all have to get all involved, and we all have to register to vote. Too many excuses have been made. Too many lives have been lost. So thank you for taking on this challenge. We stand with you, and we will be right there by your side, as Americans take to the streets on March 24, making their voices heard at the March for Our Lives. On behalf of families everywhere, never again.”

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have organized the March for Our Lives — which will take place in Washington, D.C. — to demand an end to gun-related violence and mass shootings at schools.

Watch the Modern Family cast’s message in the video above:

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Ariel Winter’s New Movie ‘The Last Movie Star’ Sees Her Play The Total Opposite Of Alex Dunphy

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Ariel Winter has grown up before our very eyes thanks to her role as Alex Dunphy on ABC’s hit sitcom Modern Family, a show she booked when she was just 11 years old. But now, she’s ready to show the world that she’s more than just a sitcom star, and fans should get ready for a brand new Ariel Winter in The Last Movie Star, on DIRECTV now and in theaters Mar. 30.

In The Last Movie Star, the actor plays Lil, a tattooed wild child who wears a uniform of booty shorts and crop tops and picks up a temp job working as a 24-hour chauffeur for the past-his-prime movie star Vic Edwards (Burt Reynolds) in Nashville. In other words, the role is the opposite of Winter’s goody-two-shoes television alter ego. In the exclusive clip from The Last Movie Star below, Lil shows up late to pic Vic up from the airport, and it’s safe to say she doesn’t make the best impression on the older star. Over the course of the film, though, Lil and Vic get to know each other better and form an unlikely friendship — hopefully one that no longer requires Vic hitting Lil in the leg with his cane to get her attention.

The movie, previously titled Dog Years, marks Winter’s first live action film in almost three years, and it’s certainly a departure from her sweet Modern Family on screen persona. “I’ve been playing Alex for eight years, and I love her, but I’ve been wanting to transition into more adult roles because I’m an adult now,” the actor said in an interview with Maxim. “I wanted to show that I have a broad skill set.”

That said, it was actually Winter’s prior experience on Modern Family that The Last Movie Star writer-director Adam Rifkin said made her perfect for the role. “We needed somebody who was young enough to be believable in the role, but with enough experience to match wits with Burt,” Rifkin said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Ariel Winter fit the bill perfectly… She and Burt were great at throwing barbs at each other and giving each other sh*t.”