Modern Family‘s Nolan Gould may play dim-witted Luke Dunphy on the hit ABC sitcom, but in real life the 12-year-old Columbus, Ga., native is a boy genius and a member of Mensa!
To become a member of the prestigious high-IQ society, you have to score within the upper 2 percent of the general population on an approved intelligence test.
Nolan reveals he did it when he was just 4 years old!
A reporter recently asked the curly-haired home-schooled ninth-grader: “Luke acts a little dumb sometimes. Is that difficult to play?”
Gould replied with a laugh: “Dumb is not really a hard thing to do.”
Then, more seriously, he revealed: “I’m a member of Mensa, so sometimes dumb is a hard thing to play.
“I do like to play Luke because he’s pretty different from myself. “Luke gets to do all kinds of crazy fun stuff like run into a screen door.”
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