The place’s Haley? It’s a query that many Fashionable Household followers have been asking in the course of the closing season of the ABC sitcom, because the character, portrayed by Sarah Hyland, has had a lot much less display time than standard throughout season 11.
Her absence got here as a shock and disappointment to Hyland, 29, she shared with Cosmopolitan journal, noting she needs viewers noticed the character “personal her badassery within the style world—turning into a badass stylist or model mogul or something like that.”
Final 12 months, on the season 10 finale, Haley gave delivery to twins, Poppy and George. She and husband Dylan Marshall (Reid Ewing) have briefly appeared within the closing episodes, together with their battle to determine be mother and father, however their story traces have fallen into the background.
Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy on ABC’s “Fashionable Household.” ABC/Bonnie Osborne
“There are such a lot of wonderful moms who’re additionally onerous employees and excel at their jobs and kill it daily in each features,” the New York native stated. “That may have been a very cool factor to see, particularly from somebody like Haley.”
In January, the Soiled Dancing star tweeted concerning the lack of display time.
“Why has Haley been lacking from so many episodes of Fashionable Household this season?” one fan requested the actress. She retweeted the query and replied, “Apparently I’ve been busy with the twins.”
As for what’s subsequent, she’s not letting the downtime get her frightened.
“The factor as an actor, is it’s like, ‘Will I’ve a job tomorrow?’” she stated within the interview. “With Fashionable Household ending, it’s like, ‘Oh, nice. I’m by no means going to work once more. I’m going to should promote all the pieces and dwell out of a shoebox.’”
In January, the four-time SAG Award winner revealed to Us Weekly and different reporters that Haley has “modified essentially the most” in the course of the sequence.
“She’s grown. She’s at all times had a coronary heart of gold and loves her household tremendously, however identical to each teenage lady, concurrently hates them abruptly,” Hyland stated on the time. “You’ve seen her make errors and come clean with errors after which make those self same errors once more. However I’m actually pleased with the way in which that she has grown, and there have been some conditions the place she has been pressured to develop much more so. Each new mom goes via what Haley’s going via, particularly when you may have twins.”
The Fashionable Household finale airs on ABC Wednesday, April 8, at 9 p.m. ET.
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