Speaker 1: Welcome to part two of our interview with Lori Lachlin.
Speaker 1: You love her, We love her, So let's not waste
Speaker 1: any more time before jumping into part two of this
Speaker 1: amazing interview.
Speaker 2: What were some of the other roles that you did
Speaker 2: that you really loved or that were something different or
Speaker 2: fun that you got to do well.
Speaker 3: Before I did Full House, I did a movie with
Speaker 3: c Thomas Howe and Kelly Preston called Secret Admirer. Oh,
Speaker 3: and it was a big film for Orian Pictures at
Speaker 3: the time, Okay, and it was like a teen romantic
Speaker 3: comedy and it was so much, oh my gosh, so
Speaker 3: much fun. In fact, I think there's an episode of
Speaker 3: Is there an episode of Full House where there's a
Speaker 3: love letter that gets passed around and it's.
Speaker 4: Secret Admirers the Secret Admirer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So that was that came. That idea came to
Speaker 3: Jeff from that movie. I did Secret Admirer, and that's
Speaker 3: how Jeff and that's how Jeff was aware of me
Speaker 3: as an actress because of that movie. He saw that
Speaker 3: movie and he liked that movie. So when they were
Speaker 3: casting the role of Beth, he was like, Oh, can
Speaker 3: we see about that girl? Lorie Lockwood and that that
Speaker 3: sort of and then that's how that little storyline came
Speaker 3: along on Full House because that was the premise of
Speaker 3: Secret Admirer. It was a love letter that actually my
Speaker 3: character wrote and it kind of gets and it gets
Speaker 3: passed all over the place and to the parents of
Speaker 3: the kids, and everybody thinks this everybody somebody else, And
Speaker 3: that was the premise of that story. But that movie
Speaker 3: was so much fun. We shot in Los Angeles. It
Speaker 3: was it see Thomas Howell had just come off of the.
Speaker 4: House that nothing shoots in LA.
Speaker 3: I know. It was great. It was great, Like it
Speaker 3: was when you could shoot in LA and you could
Speaker 3: go like be up on the hills near the Hollywood sign,
Speaker 3: like it was just amazing. It was just amazing, And
Speaker 3: it was such a fun shooting. It was such a
Speaker 3: fun movie, and so I'm really fond of that. I
Speaker 3: also did a movie called The Night Before with Keanu
Speaker 3: Reeves and it was like a little independent film about
Speaker 3: a popular girl in high school who loses a bet
Speaker 3: and has to go to prom with a nerdy guy
Speaker 3: and he picks her up and he's driving to prom,
Speaker 3: but he's got like a what do you call it? Direction?
Speaker 3: I can't think of a name right now.
Speaker 4: My old brains.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like a compass the thing of his car. And
Speaker 3: he also has a gift for me that's got a magnet.
Speaker 3: So when he puts the magnet near the compass, he
Speaker 3: ends up getting going the wrong way and going to
Speaker 3: downtown LA and then he loses me. He wakes up
Speaker 3: in an alleyway, he can't find me, and it turns
Speaker 3: out he's like sold me, like just some trafficker.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I hate when that happens. That's the worst.
Speaker 3: But it was a funny.
Speaker 4: It was a wake up like, oh no, not again, yeah,
Speaker 4: my friend.
Speaker 3: But it was like this funny, quirky black comedy. It
Speaker 3: was really it was. It was fun. And we shot
Speaker 3: downtown Los Angeles at night. In fact, we went to lunch,
Speaker 3: well lunch for one night. We came back and some
Speaker 3: gang had gotten into a fight and somebody had been
Speaker 3: murdered in the alleyway where we were just shooting. Oh
Speaker 3: oh my goodness. Like we were like, yeah, we were
Speaker 3: in the thick of it. But it was fun, Like
Speaker 3: I loved it. It was fun. It was so much fun.
Speaker 4: Keanu Reeves was a nerdy guy.
Speaker 3: He was the nerdy guy. Could he was?
Speaker 2: He was so much we all knew before we knew
Speaker 2: that he.
Speaker 4: Was gonna be.
Speaker 3: He was what a lovely, lovely man.
Speaker 2: I want to meet him so bad, just because I
Speaker 2: hear he's so awesome and nice and lovely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just a dream. He really is so sweet.
Speaker 4: Great to hear.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I didn't know that you auditioned for the Blue
Speaker 1: Lagoon for the role. I eventually went to brook Shields.
Speaker 4: I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Tell me how old were you and what on that audition.
Speaker 3: I don't remember how old I was. I was pretty young,
Speaker 3: maybe thirteen fourteen? Oh wow, yeah, and.
Speaker 4: I got and I yeah, she was like fifteen when
Speaker 4: she did it, right, she.
Speaker 3: Brook is younger than I am. So she was, oh, okay,
Speaker 3: but you know what, you know what like, look, so
Speaker 3: we all have auditions, We get close on things, we
Speaker 3: get offers, we passed, we do whatever you know. For me, Ultimately,
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't think I was. As I
Speaker 3: kept getting further along in the audition process, I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know that. I'm like, I just me emotionally.
Speaker 3: I just didn't run the content for me, not that
Speaker 3: it was any big deal. But at the time when
Speaker 3: you're little and you're like, oh I whatever, I just
Speaker 3: felt oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, god yeah, when you're thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, you're like.
Speaker 3: When everything's meant to be the ways, man, like, that's
Speaker 3: her role. I always believe it. Your name is on it,
Speaker 3: it's you know what I mean, it goes to the
Speaker 3: person it's supposed to go to. Totally.
Speaker 4: And maybe you know what, maybe she auditioned with Todd.
Speaker 3: She might maybe Todd said, you know, Todd.
Speaker 2: Was like, you know, I auditioned with people and then
Speaker 2: they get movies and I don't. And his last audition
Speaker 2: was with you and then and they went and on
Speaker 2: Blue Lagoon. And well, when I.
Speaker 3: Started modeling, I Brooke was one of the people I
Speaker 3: first met and modeled with when we were kids.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, yeah, yeah in New York.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And she's such a nice what a nice person.
Speaker 3: She's such a lovely just a lovely girl. I mean,
Speaker 3: just a really nice woman.
Speaker 1: That's great to hear.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I did you know?
Speaker 4: Weren't you also in was it Rad?
Speaker 3: Rad?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: My goodness, so Rad is a movie I did that.
Speaker 3: Hal Needham, who was a stuntman, used to work with
Speaker 3: Burt Reynolds a lot. We did this movie called Rad
Speaker 3: and it was a very sweet film and then Hal
Speaker 3: got his hands on it and kind of smokey and
Speaker 3: the bandit like you remember them were just smoking the
Speaker 3: band and he kind of like infused some of that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff into it. Yeah. Yeah, And when I
Speaker 3: got to work in Calgary, I thought, and I really
Speaker 3: liked Hal a lot. He was He's a really nice man.
Speaker 3: But I thought, oh man, this movie it got so cheesy.
Speaker 3: It got really cheesy, and I thought, well, maybe it'll
Speaker 3: just it'll come and go, like it'll come and go,
Speaker 3: and it's got the craziest cult following to this place.
Speaker 4: I have more young one of those. So weird to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they love that movie Rad. But Hal was
Speaker 3: so funny, such a sweet man. But I remember the
Speaker 3: lead actor, what was his name, Bill Allen, I think
Speaker 3: was the lead. And Hal was so funny. He loved
Speaker 3: Burt Reynolds, like, he had this incredible relationship with Burt
Speaker 3: Reynolds and did the smoking in the bandit movies with them,
Speaker 3: and he'd come up and this was his direction. Sometimes
Speaker 3: he'd say to Bill Allen, remember that line that Burt
Speaker 3: said in smoking in the bandit like this same line
Speaker 3: like that. I thought, that's the craziest direction.
Speaker 4: Was like know that other movie, just do that movie say.
Speaker 3: The line like its okay, that was weird direction. But
Speaker 3: Hal is fun like he was. He was just a
Speaker 3: good old cowboy. So I have to say, like, I
Speaker 3: can't really recall having too many bad experiences. I feel
Speaker 3: lucky that way, you know, in my career, or or
Speaker 3: sometimes I think if things were going awry on set,
Speaker 3: I was just oblivious. I don't know. I've always just
Speaker 3: loved what I was doing and always found the joy
Speaker 3: in it and always had a good time and always
Speaker 3: felt blessed to be working with really nice people. So
Speaker 3: I'm happy to say, like all of those memories are
Speaker 3: good ones.
Speaker 2: Good yeah, And that's you know, I always like to
Speaker 2: be able to tell those stories too, because you know,
Speaker 2: we so often hear about all of the bad things.
Speaker 2: But I always say, like our experience particularly on full
Speaker 2: House and Fuller House and all of that, but I
Speaker 2: do think even a lot of us in this business
Speaker 2: had relatively good experiences overall and loved what we did.
Speaker 2: And you know, with full House, the majority of you know,
Speaker 2: our time for eight years I mean that was, like
Speaker 2: you said, it was sort of unprecedented in how well
Speaker 2: we got along and how much we loved being together.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad it was. I'm glad it was a
Speaker 3: good experience for you guys to because we did all,
Speaker 3: like I always felt, we were all everybody behind the
Speaker 3: camera in front of the camera were there to make sure, yes,
Speaker 3: obviously to do our jobs, but also to make sure
Speaker 3: that you guys were okay, that you were well taken
Speaker 3: care of. You know, your parents were always around. I
Speaker 3: think that was so important. They were always included. So
Speaker 3: I'm glad that because you obviously we were hearing a
Speaker 3: different side of the whole Nickelodeon thing right now, which
Speaker 3: is very heartbreaking and really sad. Right, no child should
Speaker 3: ever experience the horrors, and we.
Speaker 2: We were just so you know, fortunate, and like I
Speaker 2: just look at I'm like, I just got to grow
Speaker 2: up with this really big, awesome family that like that
Speaker 2: loved me and that we had fun and like performed
Speaker 2: and acted silly together and traveled occasionally and did all
Speaker 2: kinds of fun stuff, and like it was, Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was an amazing experience. Oh my god, so many laughs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I always wondered, like, did you have any input on
Speaker 2: Becky as a character, like who she was or how
Speaker 2: she was with Jesse or with the kids, or was
Speaker 2: was that kind of already they already had an idea
Speaker 2: of who Becky was going to be.
Speaker 3: No, And I think this happens a lot in television.
Speaker 3: I think you come on and then you start playing
Speaker 3: the role, and I think the writers watch and they go, like,
Speaker 3: I remember Lenny Rips, one of our writers, said.
Speaker 4: To me, we have Lenny on a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I love Lenny anyway. I remember Lenny said to me,
Speaker 3: we figured out, Laurie that you were kind of had
Speaker 3: a good Yeah, you were good at sarcasm, like your comedy.
Speaker 3: A lot of your comedy came out of these sarcastic
Speaker 3: one liners. And once they kind of realize that, then
Speaker 3: they would sort of write to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think they look at you and then they find
Speaker 3: your strengths and they write to what they think are
Speaker 3: your comedic straits and yeah, and you know, and I
Speaker 3: think that's how that's so. It's so I think it's
Speaker 3: what you're you're putting into it and how you're interpreting
Speaker 3: the role. And I think then if you're you've got
Speaker 3: a good set of writers, they're watching you going, oh,
Speaker 3: she's really good here, let's write more of that for her.
Speaker 3: That's funny, you know, or these heartwarming scenes like that,
Speaker 3: you know, like they nailed that, like she and John
Speaker 3: have that. Or the chemistry between me and John. I
Speaker 3: think that we had a lot of chemistry and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: let's run with that, you know. So so I think
Speaker 3: it's a combination of both. I think it's what you bring.
Speaker 3: But I think in television, especially when you you don't
Speaker 3: always know what the long term journey is going to be, right,
Speaker 3: like you're figuring it out. Writers are figuring it out
Speaker 3: from season to season because you're watching your actors and
Speaker 3: how they perform. It helps inform you as to maybe
Speaker 3: where a story can go and the strengths of what
Speaker 3: you know that actor can play to.
Speaker 2: It's really I love thinking about that sort of collaboration
Speaker 2: of you know.
Speaker 3: But I think was always very collaborative, like we would
Speaker 3: have our it really was, and uh after work and
Speaker 3: you know, if we all had input. I remember like
Speaker 3: if if the guys were unhappy about something, or if Bob,
Speaker 3: you know, sometimes Bob was like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 3: going you would get mad because I'm always cleaning so much.
Speaker 3: I'm always cleaning so much. And then like you know,
Speaker 3: Jeff would try to right, I'll back some, we'll take
Speaker 3: some of that down, Bob. Well, we won't make you
Speaker 3: so neurotic about cleaning, you know, just but he was
Speaker 3: open to listening and going, okay, I can adjust that
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 2: Jeff was deaf, definitely, I would say an anomaly in
Speaker 2: most showrunners in that he was very open to listening
Speaker 2: to his actors and other people, and he was like, oh,
Speaker 2: let's talk about it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: There was he had no ego about it.
Speaker 2: He was willing, no, none, No, he really didn't. And
Speaker 2: he was like, all right, that's fine. You don't like it,
Speaker 2: you know. And and when we went back into fuller,
Speaker 2: you know, we kind of learned that as adults too.
Speaker 2: If we'd be like, oh that sucks, he was like,
Speaker 2: all right, cool, well don't do it, you know, like
Speaker 2: he just didn't take it personally, and like that also
Speaker 2: set the tone for everyone. You weren't like on pins
Speaker 2: and needles, you felt like, oh, we can all work.
Speaker 3: And that's not always the case, because we've all known
Speaker 3: the stories about the showrunners and the writers that really
Speaker 3: rule with an iron fist store. You can't say you
Speaker 3: can't be off by one word. You've got to like
Speaker 3: be letter perfect and you know, and it's we've all
Speaker 3: heard those stories, but you don't have any input. You
Speaker 3: have you know whatever. Right, So Jeff is really and
Speaker 3: you're right, he was the top, right, he's our show runner,
Speaker 3: so he sets the tone for the whole show, you
Speaker 3: know it always, And that's how that worked. The person
Speaker 3: at the top is the one that, like you said,
Speaker 3: can make it a really hellish experience or a really
Speaker 3: beautiful experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, was he was always great. Like I remember
Speaker 1: one time I was doing a bit and it wasn't working,
Speaker 1: so they rewrote it. I just kept trying to make
Speaker 1: this bit work, and he came over to me and
Speaker 1: he was like, is there any way you can make
Speaker 1: this work? And I'm like, no, it's so far out there.
Speaker 1: I don't remember specifics. But he's like, Okay, well, then
Speaker 1: it's a writing problem. It's not an actor problem, it's
Speaker 1: a writing problem. And so he went back and they
Speaker 1: scrapped that whole bit from the scene so he was
Speaker 1: very protective of his actors and.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that so much. Now, Yeah, there was no berating.
Speaker 2: There was never like, oh why can't He was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: let's figure out how we make it work best.
Speaker 4: And that's I think it's interesting.
Speaker 2: People don't always hear how different it can be when
Speaker 2: you have someone who's really supportive, like kind of in
Speaker 2: charge of running the show.
Speaker 4: You hear so often about the people that are.
Speaker 2: Screaming, and never you know the sets are miserable to
Speaker 2: work on, and you're like, but there are those people
Speaker 2: too that also make it really pleasant and make you
Speaker 2: love your job and love to be creative.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think you know, the experience and that
Speaker 3: we all had and the love that we all had
Speaker 3: for each other on the show. I always believe besides
Speaker 3: the show being a good show and a funny show,
Speaker 3: I think the chemistry that we all had as a
Speaker 3: cast and the good time that we were having was
Speaker 3: really palpable. If you watch the show, you can feel it.
Speaker 3: And I think it's one of the reasons it became
Speaker 3: such a successful show because people said, Oh, I want
Speaker 3: to spend time with this family, I want to be
Speaker 3: part of this family. I'd like a family like this.
Speaker 3: I want to be part of this group.
Speaker 4: And I think I've always not the same thing.
Speaker 2: And I think it's why people wanted to see what
Speaker 2: happened to us thirty years later, because they knew we
Speaker 2: all still had a reallylationship and oh my gosh, we
Speaker 2: want to see more of that. Like I mean, we
Speaker 2: would post a picture on Instagram and people would lose there,
Speaker 2: you guys still hang out. And it was before full
Speaker 2: House Fuller came back, and I was like, yeah, we do,
Speaker 2: and there was such an investment in the relationships and
Speaker 2: it was so.
Speaker 4: Palpable.
Speaker 2: I mean even watch rewatching these shows and seeing the
Speaker 2: evolution of the you know, like John's relationship with Ashley
Speaker 2: Mary Kate, you can see it on like the girls
Speaker 2: kind of warming up to him and you know, and
Speaker 2: like these relationships really developing, and it is It's part
Speaker 2: of what makes the show so fun to watch.
Speaker 3: It's funny. I remember when Fuller House was announced that
Speaker 3: it was coming was coming back or you know, coming
Speaker 3: on there was was it a trailer they released, you
Speaker 3: guys and it was on YouTube or it hit YouTube,
Speaker 3: and I believe so yeah, and it got so many
Speaker 3: millions of views, and so my girls grew up watching
Speaker 3: like the Disney Channel Hannah on Tana, and I never
Speaker 3: really put full House on for them, And in fact,
Speaker 3: if they stumbled on full House, they didn't they didn't
Speaker 3: even want to watch it. Maybe it was weird for them.
Speaker 3: I don't know. They were just like and I'm like,
Speaker 3: do you want to watch that show? And they would
Speaker 3: be like, no, we want to watch Hannah Montana. I'm like, okay, thanks, kids, but.
Speaker 4: Right support exactly.
Speaker 3: But when the trailer for Fuller House came out and
Speaker 3: it got so many millions of views, I'll never forget
Speaker 3: Olivia called me up and she goes, oh my god, Mom,
Speaker 3: I didn't I'd never realize, like what a big show
Speaker 3: this was. Like, my kids had no idea. They were
Speaker 3: blown away by the response to Fuller House and that
Speaker 3: we were all reuniting for Fuller House. They were absolutely
Speaker 3: just flabbergasted. I couldn't believe. Like that, kids, they couldn't believe.
Speaker 3: And even I think even for us, weren't you a
Speaker 3: little like, well, I know we were a hit show,
Speaker 3: but my goodness, the reception for Fuller House was off
Speaker 3: the charts.
Speaker 2: Always I've always felt that way about the show though,
Speaker 2: Like I would go do appearances and people would show
Speaker 2: up and you're like, wow, so you're all watching the show,
Speaker 2: just all oh wow. A lot of it never felt
Speaker 2: quite like it sunk in just how impactful this was.
Speaker 2: But now forty some odd years into it, I know
Speaker 2: it's amazing. You're like, oh my gosh, we have so much.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like a cultural touchstone in a lot
Speaker 2: of ways, not only in this country, even I know.
Speaker 1: A lot of Italy because Full House was filmed before
Speaker 1: social media, so we couldn't feel like we had Nielsen ratings.
Speaker 1: So we knew that the show was popular, but we
Speaker 1: didn't have the influx of views and light right and
Speaker 1: comment God, thank God, yes, so happy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you imagine thankfully, and you could go out.
Speaker 3: I do remember, though, when I would go out with John,
Speaker 3: like sometimes John and I would we would pal around off,
Speaker 3: you know, when we were outside of work too. We'd
Speaker 3: go shopping, we'd go to malls, we do it. And
Speaker 3: I remember a couple of times is being in a
Speaker 3: mall with John and coming past like a group of
Speaker 3: girls and.
Speaker 4: You just knew. You were like, we're gonna the screaming.
Speaker 3: We're screaming. The craziness, the screaming when girls saw him
Speaker 3: was unbelievable. Wow, because I was used to people would reckon,
Speaker 3: Like people would come up to me and be like, oh, Hi,
Speaker 3: are you on that show or were you on that
Speaker 3: soap up? Or are you like normal, like Hi, nice
Speaker 3: to see you, or I watched you. No, not with him,
Speaker 3: these girls would get so crazy they'd be like screaming,
Speaker 3: blood curdling. I couldn't like control themselves. He was. He
Speaker 3: was a big heart drop, he really was.
Speaker 1: He must have loved that.
Speaker 2: Yes and no, though, can you imagine, like I always
Speaker 2: feel like just you walk in somewhere and people start screaming.
Speaker 4: I mean it's not you know, it's a lot.
Speaker 3: The first time I was with him and it happened,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, yeah startling, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, a group of thirteen year old, fourteen,
Speaker 2: fifteen year old girls just screaming at you.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's high pitched, very screaming.
Speaker 3: But you're right. I'm glad we didn't have social media
Speaker 3: back then. I'm glad we didn't have paparazzi that are
Speaker 3: around now. I'm glad we could have some sort of
Speaker 3: like a normal life off camera and be on camera,
Speaker 3: and it was Yeah, I long for those days. It
Speaker 3: feels like such a crazy free for all. Now I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't like, oh, just well can be it can
Speaker 3: be beautiful, and it can be toxic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just I hate the internet so general is a
Speaker 4: blanket statement. I'm with you same s.
Speaker 2: You've now gone on and you're producing, and you've done
Speaker 2: so much post Full House with One Calls the Heart
Speaker 2: and all of your Hallmark movies. Yeah, I mean, what's
Speaker 2: that been like to get to kind of move into
Speaker 2: the producing and do it?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: You know, my one show that I'm really proud of,
Speaker 3: which was for the WB when the WB was around,
Speaker 3: was a show called Summerland.
Speaker 4: I remember that show. I watched that.
Speaker 3: I was great, Yeah, that I created and that was
Speaker 3: you know, it was like it was my germ of
Speaker 3: an idea. And then Stephen Tolkien, like you know, wrote
Speaker 3: the script and was the creator and but but it
Speaker 3: was my germ of an idea, like I had. I
Speaker 3: had a meeting over at the WB and they asked
Speaker 3: for the meeting. I had done another pilot for a
Speaker 3: series that didn't get picked up, but as they were
Speaker 3: trying to shop around, when this one network passed on it,
Speaker 3: the production company took it and tried to shop it
Speaker 3: to other networks. And so the WB saw the pilot
Speaker 3: and they were like, we're not going to pick up
Speaker 3: the pilot, but we'd like to meet with her. So
Speaker 3: I went in and they said, yeah, my ma called up,
Speaker 3: like you have a general meeting. They just want to
Speaker 3: meet with you. And I thought, you know, I know
Speaker 3: how these meetings go. You walk in and they say, well,
Speaker 3: we'd like to be in business with you. Do you
Speaker 3: have any ideas about what do you got? Yeah? What
Speaker 3: what would you like to do? So I thought, let
Speaker 3: me just come up with some germ of an idea.
Speaker 3: So when I got to the meeting and they said, well,
Speaker 3: do you have any ideas? I said, well, I do
Speaker 3: have this one idea about a woman who was living
Speaker 3: this great single life in California and her sister and
Speaker 3: her brother in law are killed in an accident tragically,
Speaker 3: and she inherits her sister's three kids and that you know,
Speaker 3: so I guess and they and they were just like, oh, well,
Speaker 3: we've been wanting to do like some form of that
Speaker 3: idea of you know, surrogate family whatever, and then we
Speaker 3: were kind of off and running developed that but and
Speaker 3: it was it was a long time getting it off
Speaker 3: the ground and getting it to like but I just
Speaker 3: remember it was I really loved the process of like
Speaker 3: literally from the ground up to when we went to
Speaker 3: our sound stage and they were building the sets and
Speaker 3: I walked on and I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: like this is really cool, Like this germ of an
Speaker 3: idea came out of my brain and now I've created
Speaker 3: jobs people, and like it was. It was really it
Speaker 3: was really cool. And then unfortunately we were got caught
Speaker 3: in the middle of like the WV was going under.
Speaker 3: We got switched from one president of the network to
Speaker 3: the other. And then quite often what happens is when
Speaker 3: a new guy comes in, they're like they tried to
Speaker 3: scrap all the old guy shows, and we got kind
Speaker 3: of just caught in the crossfire. But out of the gate,
Speaker 3: it was a successful show. It did really well. But
Speaker 3: I was really proud of that, Like I really and
Speaker 3: I'm still proud of that, even though we only lasted
Speaker 3: two seasons. I was really I was just happy to
Speaker 3: have that experience and that and that process and then
Speaker 3: working for you're doing One Calls the Heart was wonderful,
Speaker 3: and and then now doing a little bit of stuff
Speaker 3: for you know, I came up with an idea of
Speaker 3: this past year did a Christmas movie for Great American Family,
Speaker 3: but it was really based on There's a wonderful writer,
Speaker 3: Alfonso Moreno, that I met when I was doing One
Speaker 3: Calls the Heart, and I call him up and I
Speaker 3: was like, Alfonso, I'd like to come up with a
Speaker 3: Christmas movie that's meaningful to me. And I've been doing
Speaker 3: all this work at Project Angel Food, which feeds critically
Speaker 3: ill people and started years ago. Mary and Williamson started
Speaker 3: Projucated Food years ago when when AIDS was.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was a huge, it was huge, and it amazing.
Speaker 3: And thankfully we have now you know, HIV medication, yay.
Speaker 3: But the organization has lasted and so it feeds great.
Speaker 3: So I went to Alfonso and I said, like, I'd
Speaker 3: love to you know, here's my experience of Project Agel Food.
Speaker 3: Like I went there, they really like extended an olive
Speaker 3: branch to me, my friend Brad Bessie. I went there,
Speaker 3: fell in love with everyone, fell in love with the
Speaker 3: work that they were doing, and when it was time
Speaker 3: for me, like when I met all those required community
Speaker 3: service hours, I was like, well, I really don't want
Speaker 3: to leave here, like I love it here, and they
Speaker 3: were like, well, we love you, we love for you
Speaker 3: to stay here. And you realize in that moment of
Speaker 3: like you go to do something, you go to do
Speaker 3: charity work, and you think, of course you feel good
Speaker 3: because you're giving back and you're helping people, but what
Speaker 3: you what you The epiphany I had was this is
Speaker 3: as much as I'm helping, they're helping me even more,
Speaker 3: Like this is helping me even more. Like it just
Speaker 3: feeds your soul in a way where you're like, wow,
Speaker 3: this has been more helpful to me. You guys have
Speaker 3: been more helpful than me than I've been to you.
Speaker 3: And so we came up with this idea for a
Speaker 3: Christmas Blessing, which is a Christmas movie that Aaron Great
Speaker 3: American Family lashed this past year, and I was really
Speaker 3: proud of it because it had such a special meaning
Speaker 3: to me because of the work that I was doing
Speaker 3: at Project Angel Food. So it's fun to be able
Speaker 3: to take your life experience, you know, and things that
Speaker 3: are meaningful and see get and get you know, a
Speaker 3: writer on board and see it come to fruition and
Speaker 3: you know, turn out a heartfelt story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the process of creation and getting to you know,
Speaker 2: kind of watch it come to life and all of
Speaker 2: its various steps from beginning to end. As I mean,
Speaker 2: it's really fulfilling.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and it's fine, and I still love to
Speaker 3: be there and it's just amazing. It's just it's just amazing.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you know, and I feel lucky. I'm got
Speaker 3: some other good projects that are good coming up, and
Speaker 3: I feel really very blessed and lucky about that. And
Speaker 3: I was really had a lot of fun working on
Speaker 3: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Like I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, I just so it was really really I love.
Speaker 4: I just love that show.
Speaker 1: How did that come about? And how did they approach you?
Speaker 3: Like, tell us you know what seemed to be Larry
Speaker 3: and Jeff Schaeffer called my manager and they said, listen,
Speaker 3: we have this idea for Laurie, and we get it.
Speaker 3: If she doesn't want to do it, our feelings won't
Speaker 3: be hurt. Like, but this is our thought you know,
Speaker 3: this is our thought process for the storyline. And my
Speaker 3: manager called me up and she's like, I got a
Speaker 3: phone call from from Jeff and Larry David and this
Speaker 3: is their idea. And when they pitched the idea to me,
Speaker 3: I just couldn't stop laughing. I was like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is so funny, and I thought, you know it's and
Speaker 3: I thought, you know what, I'm game. I'm game to
Speaker 3: make fun of myself. I'm game to like you know whatever.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean, like you have to like life.
Speaker 2: Is life once you can do that, and nobody could
Speaker 2: You're like make fun of myself?
Speaker 4: Who can you can say anything?
Speaker 3: Yeah? So and I really genuinely thought it's really funny,
Speaker 3: Like what a funny idea. So I was like, I'm
Speaker 3: totally game. I'm told, but I didn't know everything that
Speaker 3: because they don't there's no script, right, you go there
Speaker 3: and they just tell you when you like, they gave
Speaker 3: me the rough outline of what the plot would be,
Speaker 3: but I didn't know the specifics and anything. And when
Speaker 3: I got there and they pulled up that orange Porsche, like,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, could you guys, could you see me
Speaker 3: driving an orange Porsche? But then when they pulled up
Speaker 3: the orange Porsche with the handicapped sticker this is your car,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh no, okay, we're really going
Speaker 3: for it.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah yeah, So but I laughed.
Speaker 3: I thought the whole thing was so funny and and
Speaker 3: I love their process. I love their process of they
Speaker 3: don't even rehearse you. They were you're gonna start here,
Speaker 3: You're going to walk here. This is a general idea
Speaker 3: of what the scene is. If you can slip this
Speaker 3: line in, great go And.
Speaker 4: That was that was how we did Hollywood Darlings. Was
Speaker 4: all so much wow.
Speaker 3: Like the first time you do it, you're you're like,
Speaker 3: oh and terrifying.
Speaker 2: You're like on the edge, like I don't know, and
Speaker 2: it's the most you get through it.
Speaker 4: You're like, ah that was weird and awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And then I just was like, this is fantastic. Can
Speaker 3: we just like I want to work like this all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right now memorizing you're like, just get to go,
Speaker 2: just go.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it was really fun. So yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Have to say the most Larry David moment though, that
Speaker 2: I when I saw I remember seeing him.
Speaker 4: It was that was it Bob's memorial at Jeff's house.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I was driving down the hill because everyone
Speaker 2: was waiting, and I was like, my social anxiety is out.
Speaker 2: I have to this is too much, right, and we're
Speaker 2: heading down the hill, and up the hill is walking
Speaker 2: Larry David from like streets streets back because he didn't
Speaker 2: want to wait in the line, and he's just walking
Speaker 2: up the hill by himself, and all I could hear
Speaker 2: was the curb your enthusiasm.
Speaker 4: And he because he just looked like why am I
Speaker 4: doing this?
Speaker 2: This is And I was like, I can bet he's
Speaker 2: gonna walk in there, walking about thirty feet, say hello,
Speaker 2: and walk back out exactly.
Speaker 4: And they were like, exactly what he did, right.
Speaker 2: That's that's yeah, he got them here but turned around.
Speaker 4: Well it took him forty five minutes to walk up
Speaker 4: the hill.
Speaker 3: That was unbelievable, all those cars up to Jeff. So
Speaker 3: I just goes to show you how loved Bob was,
Speaker 3: you know, that was that was an incredible outpouring from everywhere.
Speaker 3: You know, it was just amazing. He would have loved that.
Speaker 1: Do you still go to Bob's final resting place? I
Speaker 1: know you and I met there one day. Bob's Do
Speaker 1: you still visit.
Speaker 3: One of my my route for Project Dange of food
Speaker 3: when I make my deliveries is right near the cemetery.
Speaker 3: So quite often what I do is I'll do the
Speaker 3: deliveries and then I'll stop and get flowers and I'll
Speaker 3: go up and I'll put them on the grave.
Speaker 1: So it's so healing. It's so peaceful up there and
Speaker 1: quite awest.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it's it's I.
Speaker 4: Mean, if it was loud, Bob, you know, if it
Speaker 4: was loud, be surprised. Oh that's true, right, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's very peaceful, and there's something oddly comforting, like his
Speaker 3: family is there, so he's close by his mom and
Speaker 3: his dad and his sister. But that he's so close
Speaker 3: to Warner Brothers where we shot the show, it's kind
Speaker 3: of oddly comforting. It's it's weird.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, do you.
Speaker 1: Remember where you were when you heard the news that
Speaker 1: Bob passed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. I was playing golf. It was a
Speaker 3: Sunday and I was with Moss and we just came
Speaker 3: off the golf course and I had my phone in
Speaker 3: my bag because I obviously didn't have it on the
Speaker 3: golf course, I had it. I took my phone out
Speaker 3: of my bag and I had I probably had twenty
Speaker 3: five miss phone calls. As I'm looking at my phone,
Speaker 3: I have twenty five misphone calls from John. I have
Speaker 3: like fifteen miss phone calls from Dave. I think I
Speaker 3: have a few misphone calls or whatever from Candice. And
Speaker 3: as I'm looking at my phone and I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 3: that's not good. I just all these misphone calls. I
Speaker 3: couldn't imagine what was going on. My phone rang in
Speaker 3: my hand and it was Jody. Oh, and I answered
Speaker 3: that it was Jody. Yeah, do you remember Jody? And
Speaker 3: I and I answered the phone and.
Speaker 4: I answered the phone, and you were like, what's wrong?
Speaker 3: What? Yeah? And she goes, it's Bob and I'm like
Speaker 3: what what? She goes, No, He's gone, and I just
Speaker 3: I just I just fell to my knees and I
Speaker 3: just remember like Moss trying to pick me up and
Speaker 3: get me out to the car to the parking lot,
Speaker 3: and it was just I still can't believe it. I
Speaker 3: still can't believe it. It's still is hard to believe.
Speaker 3: And then I remember I got I called John right
Speaker 3: away after I hung up with Jody, and I just
Speaker 3: remember we made a plan. We went to Bob's that night,
Speaker 3: I guess you guys were all there. Its ad Bob
Speaker 3: and Kelly's and yeah, it.
Speaker 1: Was just it was a surreal week.
Speaker 3: It's just it still is, you know, and it's such
Speaker 3: a loss, and you still somehow think like, oh, it's
Speaker 3: maybe he'll come back. You know, it's just so weird,
Speaker 3: like it's just hard, it's hard to believe. But he
Speaker 3: was great and what a good man, and three beautiful daughters,
Speaker 3: and and you know, his first wife Sherry, such a
Speaker 3: lovely person, and then Kelly is just amazing. And yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, and I'm glad that Bob, even though their
Speaker 3: time was short, I'm glad he found Kelly because he
Speaker 3: waited a long time to find Kelly, you know, and
Speaker 3: have that kind of love, which is so I'm glad
Speaker 3: he had it for a little while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I always say I think Bob went out at the.
Speaker 2: Absolute peak of what he was, his of everything. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he got off stage, he had an amazing show. He
Speaker 2: posted about how great it went. He absolutely loved it.
Speaker 2: He was in love with Kelly, his girls were good.
Speaker 2: Get you know, Audrey was going to be getting there,
Speaker 2: like it just it was like just the time of and.
Speaker 3: He was excited for his new show foruring the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was we all know that there
Speaker 2: would have been so much more fun and success after.
Speaker 2: But yeah, at the same time, like what a blessing
Speaker 2: to be Like, man, life is great and that's it.
Speaker 3: To have that joy, Yeah, I agree to have that joy.
Speaker 3: And there was there was so much more that he
Speaker 3: did obviously want to do. And his girls, you know,
Speaker 3: I my heart always like his his girls. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: know that's a big loss for all of us, but
Speaker 3: especially for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's been so nice to hear the outpouring of support.
Speaker 1: I mean, it helps personally with our own grief to
Speaker 1: hear just how much people loved him all over the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: famous people, a lot of famous people. Like the personal stories,
Speaker 1: the big stories. It's just it's so wonderful. And that's
Speaker 1: the one silver lining in all of this, is getting
Speaker 1: to hear all the wonderful stories about Bob.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's and it really was, like, I mean,
Speaker 3: I knew he was loved, but boy, the outpouring was
Speaker 3: just overwhelming.
Speaker 2: He's so mad he didn't get to see himself on
Speaker 2: all those magazines.
Speaker 3: You always kept saying, well, now how am I going
Speaker 3: to top that, I'm like, I.
Speaker 2: Don't We're gonna have to shoot him out of the cannon,
Speaker 2: like yeah, you know, just just really go for it,
Speaker 2: even you know, drap him in. Sorry, John, this is
Speaker 2: how it's.
Speaker 4: Going, you know what.
Speaker 2: I know how he wants to go make him into
Speaker 2: fireworks that go off at Disneyland and there watch the
Speaker 2: fireworks show and then we just we shoot him out
Speaker 2: of the cannon.
Speaker 4: And we love you. And that's yeah. People are either
Speaker 4: laughing or like something's wrong with you.
Speaker 1: That's you get it from boll so yes.
Speaker 2: But that's I absolutely loved getting to talk to you today.
Speaker 4: It's been so great.
Speaker 2: You were such a huge influence on us as kids
Speaker 2: and as young women, and you you were that maternal
Speaker 2: influence in the in the Tanner household that really you
Speaker 2: brought so much to not only the character and our characters,
Speaker 2: but really just to the dynamic of the show and
Speaker 2: of the people and of the cast.
Speaker 4: And it wouldn't have been the same without you.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you. Well you know how I feel about you, guys.
Speaker 3: I love you girls to the moon and back. I
Speaker 3: really do. And I always feel so blessed for the
Speaker 3: time I had with all of you, and I'm so
Speaker 3: glad to be on your podcast today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so glad you were here today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. We just love you so much and
Speaker 1: I appreciate you and love you every single day. And
Speaker 1: it's so great to get to catch up and ask
Speaker 1: you questions we've never asked you before and get to
Speaker 1: know you a little bit better. Very special.
Speaker 3: Anytime. I'll come back anytime, awesome.
Speaker 2: We'll tell tell the family Hello, tell the girls high High.
Speaker 2: I'll be planning a costume party for the next.
Speaker 4: Time I see him.
Speaker 2: Mandatory, mandatory costumes. Except he's the only one. I'm going
Speaker 2: to make it the only one.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we just absolutely love you, Laurie. So thank
Speaker 4: you so much for being on the show. I really
Speaker 4: appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Anytime.
Speaker 4: By her niece, Tata, that was. That was so lovely.
Speaker 1: It was so great, so great to see her and
Speaker 1: catch up. And she's just such a great, lovely, wonderful,
Speaker 1: beautiful sweet like I have no bad things to say
Speaker 1: about her ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was and I love like hearing how she
Speaker 2: got I didn't realize she was so young.
Speaker 4: Yeah when she got into the business. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 4: realize that's like a preteen teenager. She was.
Speaker 1: She was like a child actor too at fifteen, right A, yeah.
Speaker 4: Exactly, I mean you know technically she was, she was,
Speaker 4: she was.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so.
Speaker 4: Glad she was on the show. What a great fun interview.
Speaker 2: Fans, cast and crew will all agree that Full House
Speaker 2: would definitely not be the same with Aunt Becky. Can
Speaker 2: you imagine what we would have had to deal with
Speaker 2: with Jesse. He would have been out a hand, just
Speaker 2: completely adding the horror. But Laurie is truly one of
Speaker 2: a kind and we feel so lucky to have had
Speaker 2: the chance to talk to her about a show that
Speaker 2: is so near and dear to our hearts and that
Speaker 2: she was such a big, huge part of. So a
Speaker 2: big thank you to Laurie for joining us today, and
Speaker 2: thank you for joining us as well and listening.
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Speaker 2: I'm already psyching myself out. I'm going to try and
Speaker 2: do it without the bracelet.
Speaker 4: You're sweating, I'm sweating. Remember, everybody, the world is small,
Speaker 4: but the house is full.
Speaker 1: Wow, you're off book or off bracelet?
Speaker 4: I should off bracelet, bracelet.
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