It’s hard to imagine Modern Family’s Claire Dunphy as anyone other than Julie Bowen — but actress Judy Greer has revealed that she was once in the running for the huge role. In conversation with Jesse Tyler Ferguson,

But on a recent episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's podcast Dinner's on Me, Judy Greer revealed that she actually turned down an audition for the role of Claire. "I was like, ‘I think I'm not going to audition for it.

"I was just like, ‘I don’t know if I want to be America’s mom yet,'" she tells Jesse Tyler Ferguson of Julie Bowen's Claire Dunphy