Speaker 1: Hey there, Fanta Ritos, Welcome back to a brand new
Speaker 1: episode of How Rude Tanner Ritos. Today, we have a
Speaker 1: guest that you all know and love. He played Michelle's
Speaker 1: obnoxious but lovable friend, Aaron Bailey. It's Miko Hughes on
Speaker 1: the podcast today. Now that we're getting into season four
Speaker 1: of Full House, we're finally meeting some of the key
Speaker 1: characters that made such a lasting impression on the show,
Speaker 1: and there's no doubt that Aaron was one of them.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to dig into Miko's time on the
Speaker 1: show and the impact his character had on Michelle's storylines
Speaker 1: and her overall character. So please put your hands together
Speaker 1: for Miko Hughes.
Speaker 2: Bye you guys.
Speaker 3: Long good, How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's what's new? It's been a minute, just yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Know, a few decades, just a couple of decades. Oh my, Hi,
Speaker 3: it's so great to see you.
Speaker 2: It's great to see you too. Thank you for letting
Speaker 2: me go.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, fan Ritos, you're in for a treat
Speaker 3: today because we have Miko Hughes on the podcast with
Speaker 3: us and we are so excited. How long would you
Speaker 3: say it's been? I mean, when was your I.
Speaker 4: Was seven on the last episode I was on it
Speaker 4: was it was I think four to seven something like that.
Speaker 2: So, oh my god, yeah, over thirty years. Wow, we.
Speaker 1: Just started recapping season four and you started in season three.
Speaker 1: So we've just met Aaron, the character of Aaron a
Speaker 1: few episodes, I think it was.
Speaker 3: We met Aaron? Was it at the Was it the
Speaker 3: episode where Michelle lets the bird out?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, right the man.
Speaker 2: Sequentially, are you working your way through it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the pilot and we're working our way.
Speaker 3: We don't remember we watched the show. We you know,
Speaker 3: you know how it is you do it.
Speaker 4: And then because I feel the same way, people will
Speaker 4: like quote things or tell me things and that I
Speaker 4: completely forgot. And yeah, kind of to prepare for this,
Speaker 4: I started watching some I wanted to watch all the episodes,
Speaker 4: but I kind of ran out of time.
Speaker 2: But I did get through like the first couple two
Speaker 2: or three.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's been so much fun to do. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been so much fun to go back and like
Speaker 3: watch all this stuff because, yeah, you I don't remember
Speaker 3: half the stuff I did. And you know, fans have
Speaker 3: watched these shows over and over and over again, and
Speaker 3: we're just like going back and watching them, like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, we did that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's moments too. Yeah, it is like home movies.
Speaker 4: It's a trip.
Speaker 3: It's such a trip. It's such a trip.
Speaker 1: And I have to keep reminding myself you were younger
Speaker 1: than Jody. What because Jody started a full house when
Speaker 1: she was five, and you said.
Speaker 3: You were four.
Speaker 2: First.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you were a lot and you started acting
Speaker 1: so young too, twenty two months.
Speaker 2: Those were the cool older kids.
Speaker 4: I remember, like the few times we would hang out,
Speaker 4: I was like, Oh, they're like the cool older kids.
Speaker 2: They got it all figured out.
Speaker 3: Oh that's only knew. Sure, Yeah, we fooled him. Jody
Speaker 3: told him, Well, I could fool people pretty easily at
Speaker 3: nine years old. It was beyond that. But yeah, you
Speaker 3: started at twenty two months old atie bitty.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What didn't thing was it?
Speaker 3: Was it Shakespeare in the Park? Was that what started with?
Speaker 4: It was after the first three years of training. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: the first year and a half. No, my mom thought
Speaker 4: I was really precocious and cute and took direction well
Speaker 4: and tried to get me an agent, and she worked
Speaker 4: really hard. I guess that was a whole, big, long process.
Speaker 4: But then once I was able to go on a
Speaker 4: few auditions, I got really lucky. I booked a feature
Speaker 4: within the first couple of months and then just tried
Speaker 4: to keep the momentum after that.
Speaker 3: It's incredible. That's that.
Speaker 1: I mean that just it's a testament to your talent
Speaker 1: before you even knew that you had that talent.
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's so impressive.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thank you. I wish I still had it.
Speaker 2: I don't know, please please no.
Speaker 3: But do you remember, like, was it like I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously at twenty two months, probably not, But like when
Speaker 3: you were a kid, do you remember feeling like, oh,
Speaker 3: I enjoy this. This is something that I like, Like
Speaker 3: I enjoy the performance part of it, and I like
Speaker 3: being around all these people. And you know, because there
Speaker 3: are some kids that do it and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: it wasn't my tho.
Speaker 4: I didn't really Yeah, yeah, no, I was fortunate. I
Speaker 4: thoroughly enjoyed it throughout the entire entirety. There were times,
Speaker 4: and I think that's true for any kid. You know,
Speaker 4: you have a bad day, you're cranky. There was times
Speaker 4: where it was hard. There was times where I didn't
Speaker 4: want to I kind of had family drama that put
Speaker 4: more pressure on the industry, but the actual work I
Speaker 4: always thoroughly enjoyed. So I mean, could have gone better,
Speaker 4: could have gone worse, but I really don't have any regrets.
Speaker 4: I see, you know a lot of other kids in
Speaker 4: the End of Street that grew up around our time
Speaker 4: that that had it a lot worse. So I'm pretty
Speaker 4: that had a good run.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, we always say that too. Like we were
Speaker 3: very you know, we we managed to not have to
Speaker 3: deal with a lot of the like really toxic stuff
Speaker 3: that is in this business. Sure, you know, on the sets,
Speaker 3: at least on the sets that we worked on, we
Speaker 3: were very very lucky that, like it just it was
Speaker 3: never was. It wasn't a thing. Yeah, Now, you the
Speaker 3: movie that obviously I knew you as as a kid
Speaker 3: was Pet Cemetery because even at like eight nine, like
Speaker 3: I was a huge horror fan, So that was That's
Speaker 3: like probably one of the best known ones is Pet Cemetery.
Speaker 3: And I mean you did Mercury Rising, Spawn, Apollo thirteen,
Speaker 3: and of course Kindergarten Cop which is also probably the
Speaker 3: one that people quote it you all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I was when I was younger I couldn't
Speaker 2: stand it.
Speaker 4: I was tortured by that, and my mom actually felt
Speaker 4: really bad because you know, kids tease and they say
Speaker 4: the line, say the line, and I was a little
Speaker 4: but now you know, with enough time, I look back
Speaker 4: and I love it. It's it's hilarious. But man, there
Speaker 4: was a time where that was that was kind of rough.
Speaker 2: For a while, I.
Speaker 1: Was I was wondering that, Yeah, I didn't know that's
Speaker 1: like at all, So to have a yeah, we can commiserate,
Speaker 1: but it's even worse for you because of the nature
Speaker 1: of that line.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 4: I was canceled a few times for what I did
Speaker 4: when I was five, apparently.
Speaker 3: Right, You're like, yeah, this was thirty years ago. I
Speaker 3: didn't write it.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, Yeah. Every time somebody says that though, I
Speaker 2: gain followers, so I don't know. Whatever.
Speaker 1: Well, it's good you can laugh about it, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: of course. Yeah, permanently scarred from that, that's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's too bad suppressed. It's really special.
Speaker 3: I know. I do have to know that. What was
Speaker 3: your first job at twenty two months old? Like, what
Speaker 3: what did you do? What was it for?
Speaker 4: I think it was a public service announcement, and then
Speaker 4: there was a I think John Deere or something was
Speaker 4: like a lawnmower commercial. Right, I forget the third thing,
Speaker 4: and then it was pet Cemetery. Okay, yeah, and I
Speaker 4: guess I booked the first three things. I went out
Speaker 4: on and the head agent called me and my mom
Speaker 4: into the office and said, you know, where have you
Speaker 4: been all this time? And my mom said, knocking on
Speaker 4: your door for nine months because she was trying to
Speaker 4: get an agent for ages.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, and you were. You were such a bright,
Speaker 3: precocious and you know, you were a kid who looked
Speaker 3: a lot younger than you were. And so you know,
Speaker 3: sure for those of us that are like a little
Speaker 3: smaller for our age or whatever, like when we can
Speaker 3: play two years years older right and there, Yeah, totally,
Speaker 3: it definitely works in your favor. But I mean from
Speaker 3: that moment on, you just you kept going, how did
Speaker 3: you memorize lines? Like when you're that young?
Speaker 1: Like Pet Cemetery, you had to carry a lot in
Speaker 1: that film, and so at that age, like how do
Speaker 1: you memorize did your mom work with you to memorize
Speaker 1: lines or did you just absorb it as a kid?
Speaker 2: Child abuse, you know, you do it again, you were better.
Speaker 4: No, thankfully, it was not anything like that, just repetition,
Speaker 4: you know, I mean, you know the process it was.
Speaker 4: It was playing pretend. I think a lot of times,
Speaker 4: being so young, kids play pretend. It's just at an
Speaker 4: extreme level with adults helping you, and you do it
Speaker 4: over and over and over until it's second nature.
Speaker 2: It's where you don't even think about the lines.
Speaker 4: What I appreciated about Full House too was it was
Speaker 4: it was one of the I did a few TV
Speaker 4: spots that was probably the biggest one. But how much
Speaker 4: of it is like a play? I was never used
Speaker 4: to doing plays. Yeah, it's like a stage play. You
Speaker 4: have you know, you practice all week, it gets tighter
Speaker 4: and tighter and better, the jokes gets punched up, and
Speaker 4: then on Friday you have that energy of the crowd
Speaker 4: and by then it's easy, like the hard work is
Speaker 4: you know, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then Friday.
Speaker 2: It's just fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and people, don't you know people, It's interesting like
Speaker 3: we've we had actors who came from single cam or
Speaker 3: more film world, or least just like single cam television
Speaker 3: sort of more episodic stuff that came onto full or
Speaker 3: fuller house that were great in their area, but when
Speaker 3: they were thrown into that environment sort of live theater
Speaker 3: and you know, and yet sort of not and it
Speaker 3: is it's a huge.
Speaker 2: It's a different format for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you had you know, it's on a single cam.
Speaker 3: It's like everything is smaller and what you know, because
Speaker 3: the camera's here on a sitcom, it's like I need
Speaker 3: to sort of pretend like I'm playing to the back
Speaker 3: of the theater exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's brighter, it's very like in your face.
Speaker 4: It's not a lot of subtlety, for sure.
Speaker 3: Do you remember like any of the stuff of filming
Speaker 3: Pet Cemetery when you were a kid? Like, was it
Speaker 3: because it was a horror movie? I mean, were there
Speaker 3: moments of it that like freaked you out? Or were
Speaker 3: you one of those kids that was like that kind
Speaker 3: of enjoyed that stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it's funny. Pet Cemetery is kind of
Speaker 4: being one of my biggest credits. I remember the least
Speaker 4: about it because I was so young. What I do
Speaker 4: remember are the stories my parents told.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 4: It's been reinforced in my whole life, so they're probably
Speaker 4: like memories of memories. We actually we had a reunion
Speaker 4: just last year.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: We went back to Maine and a bunch of the
Speaker 4: cast we went to like a convention. We went to
Speaker 4: a lot of the locations to take photos and stuff,
Speaker 4: and that was really neat and yeah, it like weirdly
Speaker 4: kind of brought back a vague sense of familiarity. I
Speaker 4: think when I was sixteen we went to we didn't
Speaker 4: get to go this last year's trip, but when I
Speaker 4: was sixteen, we went back to the house that we
Speaker 4: filmed out and the family was really nice, let us
Speaker 4: go in tour, say hello, And it felt like going
Speaker 4: to Grandma's house that I hadn't been to since I
Speaker 4: was very little. I couldn't tell you what was behind
Speaker 4: a door, but as soon as I would walk into
Speaker 4: a room, it was just an overwhelming sense of familiarity.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, yeah, I've been, you know where that is?
Speaker 4: And yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Like you said, the whole
Speaker 4: movies thing Pet Cemetery are like like my baby movies, right, did.
Speaker 1: You understand what, like what your character like with the
Speaker 1: blood and the gore and the death and the coming, like,
Speaker 1: did you understand any of that or were you just like,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to repeat these lines.
Speaker 4: And make it to my understanding. The director, Mary Lambert,
Speaker 4: was very mindful of that during the filming. Most most
Speaker 4: films aren't shot chronologically sequentially. They're shot out of order
Speaker 4: just because of budget and you know, the most efficiently
Speaker 4: of what locations are available and when talent's available, et cetera.
Speaker 4: But that film they shot as chronologically as possible, especially
Speaker 4: from my scenes. So being in a new environment, in
Speaker 4: a strange place, with the lots of people I didn't know,
Speaker 4: I was able to get comfortable and get kind of
Speaker 4: a sense of family.
Speaker 2: We were there with them every day.
Speaker 4: Because the beginning of the movie is very you know,
Speaker 4: it's just a family, it's establishing everything.
Speaker 2: There's nothing weird going on.
Speaker 4: So then later in the film when there was some
Speaker 4: he your asks of a small child, it was comfortable.
Speaker 4: I knew everyone, it was safe, and I think so
Speaker 4: I have a lot of my performance credit due to
Speaker 4: Mary Lambert, the director, because she she took that care
Speaker 4: and was that mindful about it, knowing that that was
Speaker 4: going to be the case, that she'd get a better
Speaker 4: better performance that way.
Speaker 3: Well, and it's I mean, we've talked about how many
Speaker 3: people don't have directors or producers or people that really
Speaker 3: work well with kids. It's not you know, there are
Speaker 3: directors and people who have never worked with kids before
Speaker 3: and they all of a sudden get thrown into a
Speaker 3: movie and they're like, I don't I can't talk to
Speaker 3: you like an adult. So it is nice when you
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wonder being a female director if that was like
Speaker 4: an insight that she held on to more probably than.
Speaker 2: Maybe otherwise.
Speaker 4: In the industry too, Like kids and kids and animals
Speaker 4: are the hardest to work with, they say so, yes,
Speaker 4: it's an added challenge.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, we like to do both on our show.
Speaker 3: Aaron was kind of kind of an obnoxious little kid.
Speaker 3: I mean, not personal, but he was. It's kind of
Speaker 3: like an obnoxious, annoying little kid, Like, Yeah, was it
Speaker 3: fun to play like that kind of annoying tattle tailey
Speaker 3: sort of?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I think that was the most spitfire character
Speaker 4: I really played at that age that I can think of,
Speaker 4: and it was fun. I think there was a little
Speaker 4: bit of me in there, as there always is, you know,
Speaker 4: in roles, but of yourself. But I think it was
Speaker 4: it was dialed up to eleven. It was the sarcasm
Speaker 4: and the attitude just of myself.
Speaker 2: But what if it was on steroids essentially? Right? Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was fun. It was a blast.
Speaker 4: You know, Full House is such a wholesome show that
Speaker 4: getting to be kind of a thorn in everyone's side
Speaker 4: was the unique and fun experience, right, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, what was there anybody that you really bonded with?
Speaker 3: On the show, like, do you remember any of your
Speaker 3: full House episodes? Because you did twelve of them? You
Speaker 3: were quite concurring guest, was it see?
Speaker 4: I was trying to look it up when I was
Speaker 4: watching it getting ready for this. I thought it was nine,
Speaker 4: so twelve. I got a it's somewhere in there, and
Speaker 4: I think I was reading the Wikipedia actually last night, apparently,
Speaker 4: because I really don't remember hardly anything. There's there's I
Speaker 4: think a couple episodes where I'm like referenced, but not
Speaker 4: in there's like a line or something that might be
Speaker 4: counting like the character.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I remember it was really fun. It was
Speaker 4: it was great. Everyone was was very nice and we
Speaker 4: had a good time. I do remember being a little
Speaker 4: like you guys were a family. You were there every week,
Speaker 4: and I wasn't there every often.
Speaker 2: Maybe more comfortable in the later episodes, the early ones.
Speaker 4: I was so little. I think I was too too
Speaker 4: young to know to be shy. But like I said,
Speaker 4: you were the cool kids. I just wanted to be like,
Speaker 4: you know, liked, and I felt welcomed. And I do
Speaker 4: have a very specific memory of you, Jody, that we
Speaker 4: were play saying POGs I don't remember what day it was.
Speaker 4: It was offset POGs, if anybody remembers, was a terrible,
Speaker 4: horrible game, the stupidest game.
Speaker 2: It was a trend and like it.
Speaker 3: Was, it was just like like little little cardboard discs
Speaker 3: started childhood gambling. Yeah, it was like you had to
Speaker 3: like flip them. Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was kind of like Jack's. I feel like Jack's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like an old twenties version.
Speaker 2: It was like the nineties version of but.
Speaker 3: I feel like kids were betting money on POGs. That
Speaker 3: was why they would get banned at schools because it.
Speaker 2: Was like I remember, because you stole all my POGs
Speaker 2: sor you didn't. Honestly, you didn't steal them. You won them,
Speaker 2: but you were older and more skilled. I think we
Speaker 2: were playing.
Speaker 3: I don't child.
Speaker 4: A child yourself, so that's fair. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you kept them, if it was just for the game.
Speaker 4: I just remember playing and you were consistently beating us.
Speaker 4: I was like, how what is she doing? Different?
Speaker 3: Like I don't even remember how to play other than
Speaker 3: you just throw things at it.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, I think you hit it with like a plastic.
Speaker 3: There was like a plastic one over.
Speaker 2: It was the slammer and you'd have to flip it over.
Speaker 3: It's sort of like there's like a Korean game that's
Speaker 3: like that, isn't it again, I'm not going to ruin
Speaker 3: the pronunciation of it, but it's the one that they
Speaker 3: play in squid game with the paper and you throw
Speaker 3: it and you have to flip the other person similar similar,
Speaker 3: so I guess it. Yeah, it's sort of a similar
Speaker 3: concept or whatever. But I'm so sorry I stole your POGs. Wow,
Speaker 3: I do remember running POGs. And then do you remember
Speaker 3: that card game Spit which there was went by a
Speaker 3: couple of different names, but it was basically like you
Speaker 3: had a half a deck and you'd flip it over
Speaker 3: and you had to go one above or one below
Speaker 3: with the cards and then you can only and you
Speaker 3: had to use one hand. And yeah, that was that
Speaker 3: was another one, super fast. Ye love that game.
Speaker 2: That was cool. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did we did we share a school room?
Speaker 1: Did you go to school with us or with the
Speaker 1: younger kids?
Speaker 4: I think there might have been a younger kids school room.
Speaker 4: I know I played with the Super Mutant Kids Club.
Speaker 4: We had the Karate episode. It was a lot of
Speaker 4: Michelle's friends. It was Betty and yes, Blake Ewing and
Speaker 4: the whole gang, right. I remember hanging with them them primarily.
Speaker 4: I know we we encountered each other a bit. We
Speaker 4: might have been in the same school.
Speaker 3: Room, but I think they had I think, yeah, I
Speaker 3: think they had their own because it was like five
Speaker 3: years a little. They weren't quite an elementary school yet. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh,
Speaker 3: how funny.
Speaker 4: I actually have another funny story.
Speaker 2: You worked on a.
Speaker 4: Film on Second Cozy Christmas in Yes, so I day
Speaker 4: played on that. I do camera work nowadays, and I
Speaker 4: was on the very last day and I wanted. I
Speaker 4: was trying to find a moment to talk to you.
Speaker 4: It was like really busy, and every time I was
Speaker 4: like we were in the same area, I was gonna
Speaker 4: be like, hey, funny story, what's up?
Speaker 2: And I never got a change.
Speaker 4: And I feel bad that I didn't now because I
Speaker 4: was like, yeah.
Speaker 3: But please, I was like, I won't shut up, so
Speaker 3: just cut me off.
Speaker 2: I was at the right moment. It was like all day.
Speaker 4: If I was in Utah, it might have been I
Speaker 4: think it was.
Speaker 2: It might have been a day in l A.
Speaker 4: You might have shot the most of it in Utah.
Speaker 3: Yes, because I was are we shooting with Vivica?
Speaker 2: That sounds very possible.
Speaker 3: I think we were shooting with Via Fox.
Speaker 2: She played in it. That's right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like the last two days we'd shot
Speaker 3: everything else in Utah when we came out here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, buddy.
Speaker 4: My buddy did most of the shoot and he couldn't
Speaker 4: do the last day and he's like, hey, can you
Speaker 4: do this day?
Speaker 2: So if I would have.
Speaker 4: Been on the entirety of it, we would have had
Speaker 4: plenty of time. I would have found my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but still I feel I feel about your very
Speaker 3: super small yeah, kind of cool. So that Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: funny how you just you know these it's when you've
Speaker 3: been in the business this long, even when you're still
Speaker 3: like in it but not maybe in front of the camera,
Speaker 3: likes seeing like the people over and over in weird ways,
Speaker 3: and like thirty years later you're like, oh my god, you're.
Speaker 4: You know, you started industry, but kind of a small
Speaker 4: industry in a way.
Speaker 3: For sure, for sure. So oh, so you do camera
Speaker 3: work now or where you were at the time, Is
Speaker 3: that what you sort of moved into? Are you doing
Speaker 3: more behind the camera stuff or is.
Speaker 4: That my blanket term is filmmaker because I wear a
Speaker 4: lot of different hats depends on the project.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you feel that too, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I've been doing a digital image technician a lot,
Speaker 4: so yeah, that's what I was on that day.
Speaker 3: Oh awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Would you ever go in front of the camera again?
Speaker 1: Would you want to act? Or you're just kind of
Speaker 1: done with that?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I took a long break where I was not in
Speaker 4: to it for many years. I kinda I don't know
Speaker 4: if you guys went through this, but like I wanted
Speaker 4: to find myself because I grew up in that and
Speaker 4: you never it's a great opportunity, and it's so many
Speaker 4: I'm so thankful because so many people don't get opportunities
Speaker 4: like that. But when you know nothing else, you have
Speaker 4: this sense of I felt very mature in many ways
Speaker 4: and very immature in other ways because you never see
Speaker 4: kind of that other side of it. And I was homeschooled.
Speaker 4: I didn't have like a full social life. Maybe it
Speaker 4: was a little sheltered. So for a long time and
Speaker 4: because of like family drama, I was just a little
Speaker 4: soured on it. But now it's been a long circle comeback.
Speaker 4: I've dabbled and done a few things, and there's potentially
Speaker 4: a project. You know, you don't want to count chickens
Speaker 4: before they have, but this year that I'm that I'm
Speaker 4: kind of hopeful for. Most recently, I did a short film.
Speaker 4: It was a fan film. So I've been doing a
Speaker 4: lot of conventions for horror movies because of this. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and the other big horror movie I did was What's
Speaker 4: Craven's New Nightmare? It was number seven in the Nightmare
Speaker 4: on Elm Street series. Yep, okay, and somebody approached me
Speaker 4: to do a fan film kind of reprising the character,
Speaker 4: and I was I was a little iffy. I thought, okay,
Speaker 4: you know, i'd read a script if the script is good.
Speaker 4: And it was actually really clever if you were going
Speaker 4: to bring the character back. It really did the story,
Speaker 4: you know, it honored it well. And and I thought, yeah,
Speaker 4: why not. I haven't done this in a while. It's
Speaker 4: kind of it feels like on my own terms, and
Speaker 4: it's something a role I really would want to do.
Speaker 4: So that that went really well. It came out. It's
Speaker 4: on YouTube right now. It's called Dylan's New Nightmare. It's
Speaker 4: kind of a leaves the door open for more. We're
Speaker 4: kind of uh, but the fans really seem.
Speaker 2: To like it.
Speaker 4: It did get demonetized on YouTube because it's horror, and
Speaker 4: I think there's like a moment it's not even real.
Speaker 4: It's a you know, a fake sequence, but there's self harm.
Speaker 4: So it organic growth. But initially it was it was
Speaker 4: like flying when it first came out, So it's niche
Speaker 4: within the scene, but like horror, I don't know how
Speaker 4: much crossover with Full House, and I keep saying with.
Speaker 3: That we need with the Full House horror crossover, I
Speaker 3: mean it would be, yeah, the calls coming from inside
Speaker 3: the house, but there's nineteen people that live there, so
Speaker 3: good luck figuring out who it is.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Clue, Yeah, it's a clue. Yeah, we got people added
Speaker 3: to basement, you know. Just well if and now if
Speaker 3: we if we decide to go that route, we will
Speaker 3: definitely be calling you Miiko, and we will hope.
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Speaker 4: I think Aaron would be the obvious choice because he's
Speaker 4: a jerk. But but it should be a twist.
Speaker 3: But it's it's a twist. I think it's I think
Speaker 3: Yankee doodle boy. I think I think you brings out
Speaker 3: to be Yeah, I like that, Yeah, he just just
Speaker 3: Yankee doodles. I'm right to that's it. Hell yeah, what
Speaker 3: are the horror cons?
Speaker 1: Like Jody and I have done the nineties con and
Speaker 1: she's in the Christmas con, but what are horror.
Speaker 4: Try to reach out a little too nineties. I feel
Speaker 4: like might be a good fit.
Speaker 2: That'd be a for.
Speaker 3: Sure, totally.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're they're great. Everyone's super nice. It's it's like
Speaker 4: any subculture.
Speaker 2: They have their little niche things about it.
Speaker 4: It's it's similar to other horror cons, but with its
Speaker 4: own little flavor, and it's a blast.
Speaker 2: I'm very thankful.
Speaker 4: It's it's cool to like meet all the people that
Speaker 4: have seen what we've done and make friends and uh yeah,
Speaker 4: it's been that's a really special thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We love doing the conventions. I know we always have
Speaker 3: a really fun time. And I actually did the Christmas
Speaker 3: one where people were talking a lot about a cozy
Speaker 3: Christmas in so yeah.
Speaker 4: I think I have a friend in the convention scene
Speaker 4: who was working that who was in LA and I
Speaker 4: swung by at the end of one of the last days.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was the same one or
Speaker 2: the same you.
Speaker 3: I think this one was a New Jersey Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: there was one like the fifth one. They have one
Speaker 3: in La too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, far far from. It's like Halloween and horror.
Speaker 3: Right, Halloween, horror Christmas? Yeah, I know. And the irony
Speaker 3: is is that I'm way more of a horror fan
Speaker 3: than than any of the like nice Christmas stuff. Any
Speaker 3: of the stuff that I do is totally not what
Speaker 3: I watch.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, it's funny. I don't even watch that
Speaker 4: much TV. And then, yeah, it seems to work out
Speaker 4: that way sometimes when when you work in the industry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to watch the thing.
Speaker 2: Have you seen the substance as a horror fan?
Speaker 3: Not yet, but I want, but I want to. I
Speaker 3: heard it one of the best ones I heard. It's
Speaker 3: really really great. Yeah, it's best going in blind.
Speaker 4: I feel like people have been posting some like spoilers
Speaker 4: of okay character stuff at the end, so try to
Speaker 4: try to if you go in, the more blind, the
Speaker 4: better I think.
Speaker 1: Got it.
Speaker 3: I did see those Farra.
Speaker 2: Two that it was. I'm hoping to see it.
Speaker 3: I saw it twice actually, because I went with my
Speaker 3: husband and the kids and be the first time, and
Speaker 3: then Zoe couldn't make it that night, so she wanted
Speaker 3: to see it, so we went like a couple days later.
Speaker 3: I actually liked it better the second time, I think
Speaker 3: because the first time I went into it with like expectations,
Speaker 3: expectations of what and I've been reading so much stuff
Speaker 3: that people are like, it's terrifying, it's and I was like,
Speaker 3: I was expecting like a horror horror movie, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, And it was like atmospheric or definitely,
Speaker 3: And then once I watched it like that, I was like,
Speaker 3: oh no, I actually like the It's shot beautifully and
Speaker 3: the story and the lightning and all that, you know.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it was very good.
Speaker 2: So it's no, Yeah, I can't wait. I'm sure I'll
Speaker 2: be seeing it pretty soon.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, the I'm sure that the Again, our crossover
Speaker 3: audience is huge between that, you know, the horror and
Speaker 3: the full house.
Speaker 1: Sure do you get recognized more for horror stuff or
Speaker 1: full House or something something difference.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's totally random, and it is kind of fun
Speaker 4: being I look very different and the beard. I can
Speaker 4: be kind of incognito when I when I feel like
Speaker 4: in La everyone knows on one that's in.
Speaker 2: The industry, so we're a little jaded. It's not that
Speaker 2: big a deal.
Speaker 4: I did get recognized actually, kind of recently, which is
Speaker 4: always surprises me because as an adult, I feel like
Speaker 4: it look so different.
Speaker 2: But uh yeah, I think it's a healthy balance.
Speaker 4: I like being able to lead a somewhat normal life
Speaker 4: and then on the occasions it does happen and.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, that's that's really cool, thank you, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, nice, nice. Yeah. So now it's you were in
Speaker 3: the business as a kid and then you kind of
Speaker 3: stepped out away from it and you're still like connected
Speaker 3: to it. But if you could give one piece of
Speaker 3: advice to like young actors out there, and obviously you
Speaker 3: were a very very young actor, but like, what would
Speaker 3: what would it be as somebody who has been in it,
Speaker 3: who has walked away from it, who is tangentially still
Speaker 3: sort of related to it, Like what would be your
Speaker 3: biggest piece of advice to young people coming into it?
Speaker 4: Man, there's so many aspects to it. That's a great question.
Speaker 4: I wish I had like a solid answer in the holstery. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean is if you're passionate about it, if you
Speaker 4: enjoy it. Only do it if you enjoy it, and
Speaker 4: if you're willing to put the work in, because, like anything,
Speaker 4: the more you learn about it, the more you learn
Speaker 4: there is to know about it. The well goes deep
Speaker 4: and sometimes it's a lot of the work behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: That's the real job. So if you're prepared for that
Speaker 4: and you can you know, navigate and adapt to that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: find find your passion, find your niche, niche, find what
Speaker 4: other people like that you do that you enjoy, which
Speaker 4: I'm also kind of dabbling in now. I'm late to
Speaker 4: the party, but I'm kind of looking into like streaming
Speaker 4: and stuff. So Okay, this is advice I've been giving myself. Right,
Speaker 4: Hopefully it works for me. Maybe it'll work for you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's kind of where my head's at.
Speaker 3: Nice, Okay, good well, Michoel. It has been so awesome
Speaker 3: to have you on the show. I'm just it's been
Speaker 3: so much fun to, like anytime have everybody, like all
Speaker 3: of these old characters come back and see people that
Speaker 3: we haven't seen for thirty years. Although I feel like
Speaker 3: an asshole because I have seen you in the last
Speaker 3: thirty years, but I didn't even know it.
Speaker 2: We were busy.
Speaker 3: That's true, because I will be I would never in
Speaker 3: a million years have recognized you. I would know your
Speaker 3: name in an instant, but I would never like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, it's Miko.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys probably get recognized all the time because
Speaker 4: you look very similar.
Speaker 3: That's that's probably I basically just took the head of
Speaker 3: my nine year old self and like placed it on
Speaker 3: an adult person. Yeah, it's harder.
Speaker 1: It's harder for us to hide, to blend into normal
Speaker 1: atmospheres because when I throw.
Speaker 3: My beard out, though, it really does I get to
Speaker 3: be much more incognitio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is actually just bell Crow.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, you're actually quick question how was COVID? Did
Speaker 4: you guys like was that a relief to not get
Speaker 4: recognized so much with the masks and like or did
Speaker 4: you get recognized just as much?
Speaker 1: I like, I liked wearing masks, but I still got
Speaker 1: recognized with a mask and like that, and yeah, it's
Speaker 1: kind of in the grocery store, I'm just like.
Speaker 3: How do you And then yeah, to take pictures and
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is weird.
Speaker 5: I will part.
Speaker 3: I definitely like was surprised at how many people would
Speaker 3: just recognize you. But it's also I think, like you
Speaker 3: open your mouth and then that's that kind of happenway too.
Speaker 3: There's a lot the voice and I would say that
Speaker 3: like it had sort of probably tapered off a little bit,
Speaker 3: and then we did fuller and so then it was
Speaker 3: like now now we're back as the way we look now,
Speaker 3: so then it got definitely true. I think got more
Speaker 3: people recognizing us. Sure, yeah, the masks were the masks
Speaker 3: were nice for a little while. Yeah right, that's right,
Speaker 3: that's our disguise code masks exactly. I just actually wear
Speaker 3: a full mask of Andrea's head when I go out.
Speaker 3: It's just like like those weird Nixon masks. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 3: and I just like her. And then yeah, sign my
Speaker 3: name on an autograph.
Speaker 2: I do, I do.
Speaker 3: You've You've been committing a lot of crimes, so I'm
Speaker 3: looking for you waiting for it wasn't me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for men on the show today.
Speaker 2: Migo.
Speaker 3: We absolutely here. It was really really cool and love
Speaker 3: to hear that you're like still in the business and
Speaker 3: loving it and a filmmaker. And yeah, we we can't
Speaker 3: seem to peel ourselves away from it either, So I
Speaker 3: think it's true. It's true, really is. Well, thank you
Speaker 3: so much, Miko. We loved having you on the show.
Speaker 3: Really appreciate it and hopeful thanks to see you soon. Why,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Oh my gosh, what a great guy,
Speaker 3: so great. I cannot believe that he worked a day
Speaker 3: on a movie and didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: Well, I could see because it is chaotic. You're trying
Speaker 1: to cram a bunch of scenes into the last day.
Speaker 3: That day was a little hectic because it was I
Speaker 3: think it was the only day that we could get
Speaker 3: Vivika Fox her schedule, so I had like a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff to shoot in a short amount of time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that that's understandable that he But still, what is
Speaker 3: Mako so excited? But you know what I will say
Speaker 3: to like, actually, I respect for you know, he was
Speaker 3: like and this is not the time or the play.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: He professional, but very professional. But I'm not. So that's
Speaker 3: what I don't. Yeah, don't don't hold yourself to a
Speaker 3: higher professional standard than I do. So, yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 1: So you don't think you would have recognized it, because
Speaker 1: I the eye recognized him at all. His eyes like
Speaker 1: look the same to me, but the beard and everything. No,
Speaker 1: I would walk past him. I did, then I would have.
Speaker 3: I did not even just walk past on the street.
Speaker 3: Was in the vicinity for all day and I've had
Speaker 3: no idea, So yeah, there's me being observant. But no,
Speaker 3: I just like he wow, so what a.
Speaker 1: Great Yeah he's he's what a great guy, just such
Speaker 1: not affected at all by acting at the starting acting
Speaker 1: at the age of twenty two months. Yeah, like a
Speaker 1: lot of that, Like he was mentioning like how much
Speaker 1: of that is really your choice?
Speaker 3: When I was gonna say, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're
Speaker 3: I don't know of acting at twenty two months, you're
Speaker 3: just being You're just.
Speaker 1: Being cute or funny or horrific whatever whatever the scene called,
Speaker 1: whatever it calls for.
Speaker 3: The PSA was for, Oh should I should have been
Speaker 3: like what was the public service? What were you announcing
Speaker 3: to the public? Yeah, what service were you providing them?
Speaker 3: Right at twenty two months? Like what could.
Speaker 2: Possibly was it?
Speaker 3: Like a you know, was it like what was he educated?
Speaker 3: Like mothers driving or something, you know, on a little
Speaker 3: baby in the car and they're like, don't drink a
Speaker 3: drive or whatever it is. But yeah, but that was
Speaker 3: that was really fun And yeah, I never would have
Speaker 3: never would have recognized him in a bazillion years.
Speaker 1: Oh he's he's great, he's fantas so happy for him.
Speaker 3: On our show. I know, right, we're getting into uh
Speaker 3: some of Michelle's crew, her people. Yeah, and we've got
Speaker 3: a lot more to Blake Ewing. I know it would
Speaker 3: be great to get Journey Smollett, but I don't know
Speaker 3: that she'll I don't she's pretty famous now, well doesn't
Speaker 3: her to ask doesn't. Yeah, she's super talented and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I really love watching her. Yeah, We've got all kinds
Speaker 3: of people. But this was so much fun. I loved it.
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