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Steve Levitan And Christopher Lloyd created the character Gloria with Sofia Vergara in mind.

Vergara revealed, “They had meetings with me at the beginning and they would ask me things, because the character has a lot of similarities with my real life. I am an immigrant in this country, I have an accent, I’m Colombian, I have a child from a previous marriage. So it was created around me.”

Sofia Vergara once called out the show’s writers for making her character too Mexican.

Vergara told TIME, “I went to the writers and said, ‘We wouldn’t do this, Colombians don’t dress like that. I cannot blame the writers. You write what you know, and you cannot tell an American writer to write about some other culture and expect that it will be as natural as writing about an American person.”

Levitan referred to it as a “wonderful device,” saying, “The documentary form itself is such a wonderful device to get to the heart of a story, cut to the chase of what a character is thinking. You don’t have to work in funky, awkward exposition. You cut to it, and you are right there.”

The creator referred to the documentary format as a ‘Wonderful Device’