Speaker 1: Hey, Fanorto's welcome back to How Rude Tanaritos. Today we
Speaker 1: have a very special guest on the podcast. She played
Speaker 1: such a formative role in our childhood as she was
Speaker 1: our studio teacher for all eight seasons on Full House.
Speaker 1: She was also the magic behind Michelle's cute catchphrases and reactions.
Speaker 1: If you've ever wondered how did they get Michelle to
Speaker 1: do that, well, today you are going to hear the
Speaker 1: answers to that and many other questions. I think it's
Speaker 1: safe to say that Full House would not be the
Speaker 1: show we all know in love without her.
Speaker 2: Please welcome to the pod.
Speaker 3: Adria later Hi, Adria, hid Hi, how are you?
Speaker 2: What a gift this is?
Speaker 1: As soon as you agreed to do this, I messaged
Speaker 1: Jody immediately. I was all choked up, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what a gift that we get to share Adria with
Speaker 1: all of our listeners and catch up and share all
Speaker 1: these memories from our Full House days.
Speaker 4: Great memories. Probably you know, I've been in the business
Speaker 4: over forty five years. I was retired for a while.
Speaker 4: I'm Sami retired, but full House is the standout, most
Speaker 4: incredible experience I had in my entire career watch.
Speaker 3: They Get to Grow Up.
Speaker 4: You know you were, yeah, Babe, Jody, I think you
Speaker 4: were five going out or you were six five.
Speaker 3: I just turned five.
Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, you were in kindergarten and I think after
Speaker 4: a very short time they skipped you into first grade because.
Speaker 3: You Yeah, I think I did. I did a total
Speaker 3: of like two or three days in kindergarten, and they
Speaker 3: were like, you should probably go into first grade. But
Speaker 3: I'd started the show right at the same time I
Speaker 3: started school, so I like never had a you know,
Speaker 3: quote unquote fully normal school experience.
Speaker 4: Right, I remember. But you used to read the scripts
Speaker 4: old in our script readings on Monday m h and
Speaker 4: at five years old, you knew not only your part,
Speaker 4: but you were reading everybody else's lines. I mean's incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sort of the That sort of seems to
Speaker 3: be the going comment is that I knew and you know,
Speaker 3: look how I turned out. I don't even know what
Speaker 3: I'm doing these days. Now.
Speaker 4: Did you come onto the show right from the very
Speaker 4: beginning or was it a couple of episodes in I
Speaker 4: forget when we started with you.
Speaker 1: My first episode was episode three of season one. It
Speaker 1: was the back to school, first day of kindergarten for
Speaker 1: Stephanie and the first day of I guess it was
Speaker 1: fifth grade for DJ and Kimmy. So that was I
Speaker 1: was there from almost the very beginning.
Speaker 4: And did you know from the very first episode that
Speaker 4: this was going to be an ongoing part for you
Speaker 4: or was it going to be reoccurring? How to know?
Speaker 3: No, it was.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be just a one time appearance
Speaker 1: and then it turned into like eight years in my
Speaker 1: entire life basically, so well, we had none of us
Speaker 1: had any idea the phenomenon that house will become.
Speaker 2: We had no clue that first season.
Speaker 3: No, so are you. I know our audience would love
Speaker 3: to hear a little bit of like your background and
Speaker 3: about what you know studio teachers do? I mean, so
Speaker 3: many of our fans out there have heard us mention you.
Speaker 3: You know, you know our studio teacher Adria Later and
Speaker 3: she worked with the babies, And how did you start
Speaker 3: in this business? What I mean, I've I've bragged about
Speaker 3: you and been like you worked on like et and
Speaker 3: all this really little stuff because you you are so
Speaker 3: well known in this business for being an incredible studio teacher.
Speaker 3: But you know on sets, it's not just about being
Speaker 3: a teacher. It's also about being the welfare worker and
Speaker 3: making sure that the kids are taking care of getting
Speaker 3: their breaks, all this stuff, and you know you have
Speaker 3: to be the one to jump in and go no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: we're done. The kid needs you know, that's it. Their
Speaker 3: time is up. They are turning into a pumpkin and
Speaker 3: need to go. But I would just love to hear
Speaker 3: how you got into this and sort of your your
Speaker 3: adventures up until full House, and then you know, of
Speaker 3: course why we were the best. We'd love to hear
Speaker 3: that best.
Speaker 4: I actually was a school teacher by profession and substituting
Speaker 4: at the time because I had a little boy. And
Speaker 4: I found out that they used teachers in Hollywood, and
Speaker 4: I called the phone number that hired teachers at the time,
Speaker 4: and they told me there were no openings. I asked
Speaker 4: for an application. They wouldn't give me one. They said,
Speaker 4: call back. We don't give applications out we have too
Speaker 4: many calls every day. So about two weeks later, I
Speaker 4: got dressed in a business suit and I went down
Speaker 4: to the Board of Education into the office that handled
Speaker 4: studio teachers without an appointment and I asked to speak
Speaker 4: the head of the department, and he came out and said,
Speaker 4: you're here without an appointment. I said, I'm happy to
Speaker 4: sit here as long as it takes for you know,
Speaker 4: when you have the time to speak to me, I
Speaker 4: would like to speak to you about studio teaching. And
Speaker 4: he said, come into my office and we talked, and
Speaker 4: I told him about my credentials and my experience teaching,
Speaker 4: and he said, all right, I'm going to give you
Speaker 4: an application and we definitely will call you. You fill it
Speaker 4: out right here in the office and we'll call you.
Speaker 4: And about two weeks later, the first call came in
Speaker 4: and it was for The Bad News Bears with Walter
Speaker 4: matth Awen tatimonial, where I assigned on a seniority basis.
Speaker 4: But that time nobody wanted to work with ten little
Speaker 4: boys out in Granada Hills in the middle of the
Speaker 4: summer on a film. I got that film. Then I
Speaker 4: did Bad News Bears two. I was asked to do
Speaker 4: Bad News Bears three, and my career sort of took off.
Speaker 4: Shortly after that, I got a phone call from my
Speaker 4: office saying, there's a there's a director who normally does
Speaker 4: his films out of state. But they're going to do
Speaker 4: a movie here in Los Angeles, you need to keep
Speaker 4: a very low profile. He's not particularly interested in working
Speaker 4: with studio teachers. So the assignment was for a film
Speaker 4: called nineteen forty one, starring John Belucci and Dan Aproyd,
Speaker 4: directed by Steven Spielberg. On that film, I had three
Speaker 4: little boys. I was on that film for twelve weeks,
Speaker 4: I think, and at the end of the film I
Speaker 4: used to bring the little boys hot chocolate. We were
Speaker 4: shooting out the beach for I think four weeks. We
Speaker 4: were out there every late afternoon into early evening, and
Speaker 4: I'd bring the little guy's hot chocolate. And one day
Speaker 4: I brought hot chocolate unto the set and Stephen was
Speaker 4: talking to these little guys and he said, oh, are
Speaker 4: you one of the moms, And I said, no, I'm
Speaker 4: your studio teacher. He said, would you bring me hot
Speaker 4: chocolate too? When you bring them hot chocolate. I said,
Speaker 4: I'm happy to bring your chocolate. And at the end
Speaker 4: of the film he said, if I ever do movies
Speaker 4: again with children, I'm going to call you. And about
Speaker 4: a year later I got a call from the production
Speaker 4: office that Steven was doing a movie which turned out.
Speaker 3: To be et Wow.
Speaker 4: So then we really took off from there, did a
Speaker 4: lot of features, and I ended up on Full House
Speaker 4: because Barbara Cameron had called me. I had done a
Speaker 4: commercial with Candae and she wanted someone to do the
Speaker 4: pilot for Full House, and I said, I'll do the pilot,
Speaker 4: but I really don't do television because I sort of
Speaker 4: you either work on TV or you work in the
Speaker 4: future film world. And I was writing for films, and
Speaker 4: I said, I'll do the pilot, but we'll find you
Speaker 4: someone else. So if this show were to go, well,
Speaker 4: the rest is history. With all of you guys, the
Speaker 4: show went, and I stayed with it for the eight
Speaker 4: years that you were on the air.
Speaker 3: I remember you talking about working with Steven Spielberg. I
Speaker 3: remember when they shot Hook on Sony that you would
Speaker 3: bring the Lost Boys over and we would get to
Speaker 3: go to set and somewhere. I had a gold toabloon
Speaker 3: from that chip. I don't have it anymore.
Speaker 4: I have one.
Speaker 3: You have, all of course you do, but I yeah,
Speaker 3: I had one, and I and I don't know where
Speaker 3: it went, but I had stuck it in my pocket.
Speaker 3: But I mean just so many memories. But you, from
Speaker 3: the very beginning, Adriot were like a pivotal role in
Speaker 3: our growing up. And you know, you you were like
Speaker 3: one of the moms. You absolutely looked out for us.
Speaker 3: And like you know, the story of how you got
Speaker 3: in on studio teaching, I'm like, of course you did,
Speaker 3: because Adria doesn't take no for an answer like that.
Speaker 3: That is one thing. And we like you made sure
Speaker 3: that the kids well being was always a priority. And
Speaker 3: you know we had a great set and producers and
Speaker 3: all of that too, but you know, schedules are demanding
Speaker 3: and things, and you know, and everybody will just kind
Speaker 3: of go, ah, well it's fine, we can you know,
Speaker 3: push that, but it was like, nope, this is it.
Speaker 3: And and you, you just like your presence there was
Speaker 3: so important to us. I remember field trips which we
Speaker 3: didn't get to go on. You know, as kids working
Speaker 3: on a TV show, you miss all of the quote
Speaker 3: unquote normal kind of kids stuff of field trips and
Speaker 3: you know, movies and you know, classroom pets and stuff.
Speaker 3: But we had, we had fish, we had oh gosh,
Speaker 3: I mean just so many cool things that you always
Speaker 3: made sure happened for us.
Speaker 4: Do you remember that we took a field trip to
Speaker 4: hers Castle and you got stung by a bee.
Speaker 3: I do, oh oh, do I remember it. It instilled
Speaker 3: in me a lifelong fear. But what I've eventually learned
Speaker 3: in my adult life is I was stung by a
Speaker 3: yellow jacket, which is a wasp. So it was the
Speaker 3: I was putting all of this on bees. My whole
Speaker 3: bees are lovely bees. I have no qualms with them,
Speaker 3: so anyway, but I remember getting stung on the palm
Speaker 3: and Barbara Cameron was like, we need to get mud,
Speaker 3: and we were like what, and she like, scoops from
Speaker 3: some mud I believe from like the parking lot or
Speaker 3: something like. We just poured some water, made some mud
Speaker 3: and slapped it on my hand because she was like,
Speaker 3: it'll help pull the toxins out. And then we had
Speaker 3: to go find like an urgent care or something. But
Speaker 3: I do I remember going to hers Castle. I went
Speaker 3: there recently the last few years with my husband, and
Speaker 3: I hadn't been since we had been, and I like,
Speaker 3: so many memories came flooding back of that trip, and
Speaker 3: I think we were probably wearing our full house sweaters,
Speaker 3: were we not? Or was that?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: That was the that was the San Diego Zoo trip.
Speaker 4: We had some we had some wonderful, wonderful trips and
Speaker 4: able to go on location as well. We did a
Speaker 4: location one time in Hawaii. Yeah, and then we were
Speaker 4: we were at Disney World in we didn't yeah there.
Speaker 3: I remember doing I remember I think, uh was Laura
Speaker 3: Gary with us at the time or was it Elise,
Speaker 3: But I think we had had brought on a couple
Speaker 3: of other teachers too, because we now had like a
Speaker 3: high school and a middle school or a you know,
Speaker 3: different credentials. But I remember doing every like afternoon at
Speaker 3: our hotel in Disney World, we'd be like shooting or
Speaker 3: doing whatever, and then we would have to have our
Speaker 3: school hours and we'd be in like the little lounge
Speaker 3: on the you know, the whatever concierge floor, and they'd
Speaker 3: be serving hot chocolate chip cookies and all, you know,
Speaker 3: and it was like, cool, We're going to study and
Speaker 3: like get some hot cookies. It was. It was great,
Speaker 3: but I think I was pretty I was heartbroken over
Speaker 3: going to Disney World because it was the same week
Speaker 3: as my sixth grade science camp and I had to
Speaker 3: miss my sixth grade science camp trip, which was the
Speaker 3: thing that like everyone looked forward to, and it was
Speaker 3: and I just remember my mom being like, one day
Speaker 3: you will realize that you got the better option, you know.
Speaker 3: But it was like that normal sea and so you know,
Speaker 3: that sense of like doing what all the other kids did.
Speaker 3: So getting to go on these field trips and like
Speaker 3: I mean even going to Alvera Street, you know for
Speaker 3: like back to Spanish, Yeah, to practice Spanish, you know,
Speaker 3: like stuff like that was just it was so important
Speaker 3: to us. And you know, pretty soon you started working
Speaker 3: with Ashley and Mary Kate. I mean you were there
Speaker 3: as sort of the baby wrangler. Had you had you
Speaker 3: had prior experience in wrangling babies, No, I mean other
Speaker 3: than your own, only my own, other than Matt, only
Speaker 3: my own.
Speaker 4: And when I came onto Full House, all of your producers,
Speaker 4: Jeff Franklin and all his writing staff, all his producers
Speaker 4: were for the most part single guys. I don't even
Speaker 4: we had any females on the writing staff at that time.
Speaker 3: Probably not. It was the lady. It was the eighties.
Speaker 4: It was at the pilot. They were eight months old.
Speaker 4: And so Jeff or one of the producers, came to
Speaker 4: me and said, so can you get him to crawl
Speaker 4: across the floor over there and pick that up. I said,
Speaker 4: they don't crawl yet much, so they don't. They don't
Speaker 4: crawl so all during.
Speaker 3: Yours and I love when Jeff would be like, so,
Speaker 3: that's not going to happen. You're right, No, no it's
Speaker 3: not Jeff, I love you, but no, it's not happening.
Speaker 4: Working as an advisor, you know, to these guys, being
Speaker 4: a mom and being a mom a young child, I
Speaker 4: was able to tell them little things. One of the
Speaker 4: things that came up the fact that the Tanners were
Speaker 4: in a house with their father because the mom passed away,
Speaker 4: and that was uncle Jesse and their friend Joey. I
Speaker 4: went to Jeff Franklin one time and I said, you
Speaker 4: know what's interesting about this dynamic is I'm divorced. I
Speaker 4: have a little boy and he was playing out in
Speaker 4: the street with all of his friends, and a couple
Speaker 4: of his friends were teasing him. They said, well, you
Speaker 4: know what, you don't have a mom that lives in
Speaker 4: your house. You only have I'm sorry, you don't have
Speaker 4: a dad that lives in your house. You only have
Speaker 4: a mom. And I told my son at the time,
Speaker 4: I know, but you have an uncle Todd who lives
Speaker 4: with us, because my brother, after college, moved into my
Speaker 4: house and lived with me for a couple of years
Speaker 4: while he saved up money to buy his own place.
Speaker 4: So he was kind of like he was the coach
Speaker 4: of the block. He took care of all the kids
Speaker 4: out there. After work, he would go out and play
Speaker 4: with him. So I told Jeff that, you know, Matt
Speaker 4: was criticized because he didn't have a dad in the house,
Speaker 4: And I said, and so they wrote that into a script.
Speaker 4: I think one of you came home from school, you know,
Speaker 4: someone had teased you and the remark was, well, you
Speaker 4: may not have a mom in your house, but you
Speaker 4: have an uncle Jesse, and you have a Joey and
Speaker 4: Star luckier than anybody else that goes to your school.
Speaker 4: And so there were things in my life that I
Speaker 4: was able to point out to Jeff. The same thing
Speaker 4: with when Mary, Kate and Ashley. When Michelle was going
Speaker 4: to go from a crib to a big girl bed,
Speaker 4: I said, well, when I moved my son, I put
Speaker 4: pillows all around the side of his bed because I
Speaker 4: was so afraid he was.
Speaker 3: Gonna Oh yeah, it's such a huge thing. You're like,
Speaker 3: you're so little, you can't be in a big It's
Speaker 3: the same thing when they start driving, You're like, you're
Speaker 3: still a baby. You can't even sleep in a big
Speaker 3: girl bed.
Speaker 4: So that, you know, So I was able to just
Speaker 4: take experiences from my own life and point them out
Speaker 4: to the producers, and they were able to incorporate some
Speaker 4: of those ideas into your show.
Speaker 3: Jeff talked about that we had Jeff on the show
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, which was so much fun,
Speaker 3: and he really talked about how full house like, how
Speaker 3: he would talk to us, the kids and our moms
Speaker 3: and you like, because he said he was like, I
Speaker 3: knew I didn't I had no kids, I had no experience.
Speaker 3: He's like, so I knew I could write, you know,
Speaker 3: these guys that had no experience raising kids. He's like,
Speaker 3: but I did, you know writing for the kids. I
Speaker 3: wanted to know what kids were really like. He was like,
Speaker 3: I hadn't really you know, hung out with kids since
Speaker 3: I was one, and so I but it's so cool
Speaker 3: because we do see so much of all of our
Speaker 3: own experiences and influences and life incidents and things that
Speaker 3: Jeff and these producers really listened to and they were like,
Speaker 3: what's it like? And you know, you or our moms
Speaker 3: or we would be like, oh, you know, it's it's
Speaker 3: like this, this is what's going on in our school life,
Speaker 3: or this is you know, what we're into, and it
Speaker 3: became part of the show. And it was like, rarely,
Speaker 3: I think, do you truly rarely do you have producers
Speaker 3: on a show who listen to the kids and their
Speaker 3: families and the studio teachers as much as they did
Speaker 3: on Full House. Absolutely, really, absolutely, it's really really rare.
Speaker 3: Usually the kids are like the side dish or they're
Speaker 3: just kind of expected to do whatever and go along.
Speaker 3: But it was really it was a give and take
Speaker 3: about how did they make the kids the best versions
Speaker 3: of themselves on set and how could they support us
Speaker 3: being normal kids?
Speaker 4: Offset right, It was such an incredible experience, and you
Speaker 4: know the fact that we had your three moms, I
Speaker 4: mean Andrea with your mom, Sherry and Janice and Barbara,
Speaker 4: it's an extraordinary combination that all magically came together and
Speaker 4: made Full Housewood. It was you know, I really I
Speaker 4: think the moms had a big part, yeah, in making
Speaker 4: that all come together so beautifully. And one of the
Speaker 4: things I noticed I remember about the show compared to
Speaker 4: one thousand other projects that I've worked on in my
Speaker 4: forty some odd years, when we would do a rehearsal
Speaker 4: and then you know, they say cut and it was
Speaker 4: like a break. Like the guys wouldn't just pop off
Speaker 4: to their dressing rooms. They would stay on the set.
Speaker 4: They would talk to you little ones, Yeah, play with you.
Speaker 4: I remember John Stamos very wisely, it would sit in
Speaker 4: a chair rather than going off to his dressing room
Speaker 4: and say give me one of the twins, because he
Speaker 4: wanted to create some kind of connection with the little ones.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, he set that up I think from
Speaker 4: the beginning with you and Candace and Andrea. But yeah,
Speaker 4: working with a nine month old, a ten month old,
Speaker 4: it takes work.
Speaker 3: It's a lot and getting them comfortable with like, hey,
Speaker 3: these are people that you you know that you have
Speaker 3: to look like on camera that you're not screaming and
Speaker 3: like who are these strangers?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: What I do From the very beginning, I told all
Speaker 4: of you, including the producers, that when Mary, Kate and
Speaker 4: Ashley were little, I was going to have them learn
Speaker 4: you learn your names by your character names, not your
Speaker 4: real name, because I wanted them to think of Uncle
Speaker 4: Jesse was willing Uncle jas See, and Danny was close
Speaker 4: enough to Daddy that if they said that that word.
Speaker 4: And so I taught them your character names, not your
Speaker 4: real names. And I think, well they were about three
Speaker 4: years old. Mary Kate came up to me one day,
Speaker 4: sort of in a little side secret, and she said,
Speaker 4: I know Uncle Jesse's real name.
Speaker 3: She said, of course, Mary Kate did. That seems like
Speaker 3: a very Mary Kate thing. I know something.
Speaker 4: Oh, you're right, that's his real name. But for years,
Speaker 4: for the first two three years of Full House, we
Speaker 4: referred to all of you guys by your character names.
Speaker 3: I think we did that on Fuller too, with Dashel
Speaker 3: and Fox. I mean, you kind of have to when
Speaker 3: they're little, because you can't be like, Okay, during this
Speaker 3: period of time, I need you to call me by
Speaker 3: this name, and then when they're not doing it, you
Speaker 3: can call it like that. No, that's right, get that
Speaker 3: with a baby. So but yeah, I remember when they
Speaker 3: kind of found out too, they.
Speaker 1: Were like wait them, they were finally let in on
Speaker 1: the secret.
Speaker 4: It was so interesting for that to go on as
Speaker 4: many years as it did, because you don't see it
Speaker 4: so much with adults, but with children, you see such
Speaker 4: a change in development, you know. I mean, I mean
Speaker 4: you went from five years old plus, you know, I
Speaker 4: mean you were like a teenager of preteens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was thirteen when it ended.
Speaker 4: Andrea was, you know, graduating high school, and Campus was
Speaker 4: graduating as well. It's just you see such a change
Speaker 4: in development of a human being. You're on a show
Speaker 4: like that for that length of time with children.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, Jeff talked about, you know, we were
Speaker 3: one of the first shows to like raise a baby
Speaker 3: on television and to not in between seasons, you know,
Speaker 3: jump the kid from you know, an infant to all
Speaker 3: of a sudden, there are toddler. You know, we really
Speaker 3: we just followed.
Speaker 4: We stayed with them.
Speaker 3: We stayed with them, We stayed with the kids, and
Speaker 3: I you know, that was such We were such a
Speaker 3: big part of the show. It was such a family
Speaker 3: oriented show about the kids storylines and the adul storylines
Speaker 3: and everything that like you really got to watch these
Speaker 3: kids grow up. I mean, it's so crazy going back
Speaker 3: and watching these early episodes, just how little we were.
Speaker 4: Yes, I remember I would decide which of Mary Kate
Speaker 4: or Ashley would do a particular scene and then I
Speaker 4: usually flip them every other scene. And Mary Kate came
Speaker 4: to you one day and she said, how come Ashley
Speaker 4: gets to do all the cookie scenes and the cake
Speaker 4: scenes and I don't think of who's eating the cookie or.
Speaker 3: The cake in the scene.
Speaker 4: And she said, Ashley gets every one of those. I said, well,
Speaker 4: you need to go to Jeff and tell him to
Speaker 4: write you a scene that has something to do with eating,
Speaker 4: and I will make sure I put you in it.
Speaker 4: Sure enough, he wrote an ice cream scene for her
Speaker 4: that was fantastic, but she wanted an eating scene just
Speaker 4: like her sister Ashley.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how was it like learning sort of their temperament?
Speaker 3: And you know, I know one of the things we
Speaker 3: had John on the show too, and one of the
Speaker 3: things we talked about with him was when he, you know,
Speaker 3: replaced the Olsens in the first season. Was like, I
Speaker 3: don't know. We had like different babies for a couple
Speaker 3: of days and then we were like, never mind, I
Speaker 3: have do you remember that?
Speaker 4: No? In fact, I recently saw Jeff. Jeff and I
Speaker 4: had lunch together a week ago, and I told him
Speaker 4: I have no memory of ever switching out those twins
Speaker 4: because you didn't cry, did we do you remember?
Speaker 3: I do, I remember, because I remember they they were
Speaker 3: like similar looking babies, but they didn't. They just didn't.
Speaker 3: They weren't as like cute and you know, exp whatever,
Speaker 3: and we went back to the Olsons. But I remember,
Speaker 3: I don't think we didn't shoot an episode with them.
Speaker 3: We didn't. It was maybe like a day or two
Speaker 3: of rehearsal that like right in the beginning of the
Speaker 3: first few episodes that we brought them in, and then
Speaker 3: we were like, nah, I think kind of, it's just
Speaker 3: good with what we got.
Speaker 4: And you know, it's interesting. I was reminding Jeff that
Speaker 4: first season, Ashley did not work for the first three
Speaker 4: quarters of season one. Every time, yeah, we dressed them
Speaker 4: both exactly alike so that we could use them both,
Speaker 4: and every time I reached for her to take her
Speaker 4: on stage, she cried, she wouldn't go. So Mary Kate
Speaker 4: did almost the entire first season of Full House. And
Speaker 4: there was one night, I must say, three quarters away
Speaker 4: into the season. They showed up on a Friday night
Speaker 4: and Mary Kate had an eye infection. Her eye was
Speaker 4: completely swollen shut. Jarnie said I'm so sorry, and she
Speaker 4: has an eye infection, I said, and it was tape night, right.
Speaker 3: Look, there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 4: Said Ashley, tonight is your night. I took Ashley from
Speaker 4: the dressing room into the school room wardrobe, brought the
Speaker 4: clothes into the school room. We dressed Ashley in there.
Speaker 4: I carried her out under the set. I put her
Speaker 4: on the couch in the living room. And then and
Speaker 4: there was a scene where Danny was calling around for
Speaker 4: a babysitter, and so he's on the phone sitting on
Speaker 4: the couch, actually sitting there with a little toy phone
Speaker 4: in us.
Speaker 3: Yes, I remember this scene. Yeah, we watched this episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so he's talking to her and she's just
Speaker 4: holding the phone and he looks at he says, what
Speaker 4: do you think I can't seem to find a babysitter,
Speaker 4: And she just takes the phone and she hangs it up,
Speaker 4: and he had lived and said.
Speaker 3: You just hung up on your phone.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 4: From there, so that was Ashley's first scene, was that
Speaker 4: tell scene. And she worked from then on that.
Speaker 2: You can't write that. You can't write that stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, it's either the baby performs or she doesn't.
Speaker 2: You cannot script it.
Speaker 3: No, And there's so many cute little moments. Now now
Speaker 3: that we're in season two, we've kind of realized the
Speaker 3: pattern of like the cold opens or the teasers that
Speaker 3: are very Michelle focused. They're you know, always about some
Speaker 3: cute little thing that Michelle is doing or whatever. And
Speaker 3: that was you know, there's so many fun moments of
Speaker 3: them kind of ad libbing or making a face or
Speaker 3: doing something that was totally unexpected that made for some
Speaker 3: really cute moments.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you the two of you have
Speaker 4: access to any of those out take reels.
Speaker 3: Oh, the gag reels, Yes, we.
Speaker 4: Need to watch. They're so funny to watch.
Speaker 3: Oh, those are the best. The gag reels are hilarious.
Speaker 3: I mean, did you I'm sure you did feel ridiculous
Speaker 3: with your puppets and your bracelets and your and you're
Speaker 3: you know, crawling around on the floor and having to
Speaker 3: do i mean all manner of things you know, off
Speaker 3: camera to get the babies to react.
Speaker 2: Tell us your tricks of how you'd get them to perform.
Speaker 2: What are your secrets?
Speaker 4: Well, I was just making it up as I went along,
Speaker 4: you know, I to get their attention at that time.
Speaker 4: I didn't have like a bag of baby Wrangler toys
Speaker 4: or things. I mean I pulled my bracelets off my arms, and.
Speaker 3: I remember you would shake those, you always had bracelet asks.
Speaker 4: Then they would crawl to me, and then I did
Speaker 4: a lot of people thought I was giving them candy.
Speaker 4: I had little pieces of dried fruit, dried apric oh yeah,
Speaker 4: Cherry's little minscule cut up pieces, and I had them
Speaker 4: in a pocket and I would use those, you know,
Speaker 4: to give them almost like you know, like a reward,
Speaker 4: you know. And they knew that I had the fruit,
Speaker 4: which they loved.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh, I remember they'd come searching for it
Speaker 3: and start digging through your pockets.
Speaker 4: As some of you, as did the guys occasionally do
Speaker 4: you have any fruit? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Adria always had snacks. You're like, hey, can I
Speaker 3: have something? I mean, you know, it started with the
Speaker 3: hot chocolate being and you just continued with the snacks,
Speaker 3: right like any good, like any good mom.
Speaker 4: No, it was great. You know, it's funny you were
Speaker 4: talking about the welfare worker part of my job. In
Speaker 4: addition teaching the academics to children on set, I'm there
Speaker 4: to watch over their welfare and their well being. And
Speaker 4: Bob Saggot, you know, who was a delightful, loving, incredible man,
Speaker 4: but as a me, you know, the potty mouth.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, yeah.
Speaker 4: Oftentimes on the set would say things and how do
Speaker 4: you reprimmend? Bob? I mean, it was all get and jest.
Speaker 4: He wasn't really right trying to be as horrible as
Speaker 4: he was sometimes with the thing. Remember one time saying
Speaker 4: to him, Bob, I'm going to send you to your
Speaker 4: room if you don't clean up your conversation right now,
Speaker 4: like this in front of the children. But you know,
Speaker 4: I mean he would just forget. He'd be, you know,
Speaker 4: off with the guys. You know, they're talking, and you
Speaker 4: little ones were always around. So I tried to watch
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 3: I definitely fell into that trap and became Bob on
Speaker 3: Fuller where I would just be making a stupid joke
Speaker 3: or saying something and I'd be like, oh, hi, how
Speaker 3: are you children?
Speaker 4: You did Fuller House for how many years? Five?
Speaker 3: Five seasons?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was great that you were able to
Speaker 4: come together like that after full House and produce another
Speaker 4: show like that that just kind of in the hearts
Speaker 4: of America. I mean, your great fan base.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really it really was. It was so much
Speaker 3: fun getting to come back and do it and on
Speaker 3: the same stage and everything. You know, we have so
Speaker 3: many memories, I mean, the the old the our wardrobe room,
Speaker 3: our upstairs wardrobe room on Fuller was our old school
Speaker 3: room that Andrey and I shared, and yeah, just all
Speaker 3: the all those memories. I mean, it was just it
Speaker 3: was just crazy and good.
Speaker 1: We should probably we should probably mention that by law,
Speaker 1: children on films or TV are required to do three
Speaker 1: hours of schooling a day, which doesn't sound.
Speaker 2: Like a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna until you really.
Speaker 1: Realize, well, we had full time jobs too, so you
Speaker 1: have to fit in tetris in the school hours, the
Speaker 1: three hours into the normal work day, which is kind
Speaker 1: of challenging at times on those tape days to find
Speaker 1: those three hours.
Speaker 4: And even though it doesn't sound like a lot of time,
Speaker 4: three hours, you basically had one to one instruction I think,
Speaker 4: I know. In the beginning, yeah, I had the three
Speaker 4: of you, you and Candace and the two of you
Speaker 4: in Candas. But then as you got older and as
Speaker 4: I became busier with Mary, Kate and Ashley coaching them,
Speaker 4: you know, we brought in other teachers on the set,
Speaker 4: and so a lot of a lot of you, especially
Speaker 4: in your teen years, ended up with one on one instruction.
Speaker 4: So even though three hours is a small amount of time,
Speaker 4: you get that concentrated one on one. Oh it was great,
Speaker 4: no messing around, no lost time. You know, it was
Speaker 4: focus opportunity.
Speaker 3: I remember always, I remember always getting in trouble for
Speaker 3: uh talking because that was just what I did. But
Speaker 3: also tipping my chair back. I remember sitting in the
Speaker 3: school room and you'd be like, Jody, stopped tipping your
Speaker 3: like either you or at least stop tipping your chair back,
Speaker 3: and I would keep doing it and keep doing it
Speaker 3: until I fell, because that's just what kids do. But
Speaker 3: I remember, I do remember vividly being like can you
Speaker 3: would you stop? You're gonna hit your head. No, I'm fine,
Speaker 3: I'm fine. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: The fun things that could do.
Speaker 4: Amaze me is how you girls could learn your lines,
Speaker 4: do all of your school work, get all of your
Speaker 4: work done, get the extraordinary grades in your courses that
Speaker 4: you did, and still remember your lines. Like when I
Speaker 4: tried to coach Mary, Kate and Ashley with their lines,
Speaker 4: I could not do it without a script in my hand.
Speaker 4: I could not memorize their lines. And I remember I
Speaker 4: used to wear reading glasses and so they were you.
Speaker 3: Know, yes, I remember your glass. You had the little chain,
Speaker 3: always a gorgeous let.
Speaker 4: Up on my yet and then they were sideways on
Speaker 4: my head. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, your hair would be all over and your up.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But I could not do a show without having
Speaker 4: a script in my hand. And I just blown away
Speaker 4: by the fact that you, the two of you are
Speaker 4: and canvas as well, you know, were able to memorize
Speaker 4: your lines, do all of your school work, hit your
Speaker 4: marks where you needed to stand. I just do all
Speaker 4: you know, do all of that in your life. I
Speaker 4: I'm pretty blown away by budies.
Speaker 1: I think it's easier as a kid. We're like sponges,
Speaker 1: just absorbing information. It's like learning a new language. It's
Speaker 1: easier when you're younger because you just you don't have
Speaker 1: all the adult responsibilities floating around.
Speaker 2: In your head.
Speaker 3: You just so okay, yeah, I'm not worried about Rent.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm like, hey, sure I can remember this line.
Speaker 3: We absolutely loved having Adria on as a guest. What
Speaker 3: a wonderful interview. And I just I have all those
Speaker 3: wan Chausi's hearing her behind the scenes stories just incredible
Speaker 3: and as always with our full house crew, there was
Speaker 3: so much to talk about that we had to break
Speaker 3: this interview up into two parts, So join us for
Speaker 3: part two, airing this Friday, and in the meantime, if
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Speaker 3: great things. So we love having you as guests. Fan
Speaker 3: of Rito's, You're amazing. We'll see you next time for
Speaker 3: part two of this interview. And remember the world is small,
Speaker 3: but the house is full.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have to come up with a new tagline
Speaker 2: for you to mess up.
Speaker 3: No, I had to make Adria proud, she said, I
Speaker 3: was so good at knowing my line. If I blew
Speaker 3: it now, you'd be letting her down.