Speaker 1: Hey, fan Ritos, Welcome to how Rude Tanner Ritos. We
Speaker 1: are so excited to announce today's interview. We were so
Speaker 1: relieved when her character first appeared in season two to
Speaker 1: tame Uncle Jesse the Womanizer. She was a much needed
Speaker 1: presence both on and off stage, and the fans have
Speaker 1: been eagerly waiting for this conversation with the beloved aunt Becky.
Speaker 1: We cannot wait to catch up with our sweet and
Speaker 1: beautiful friend, Laurie Lachlan.
Speaker 2: Hy Lourie, I haven't talked to you guys in a while.
Speaker 2: How are you guys?
Speaker 3: Doing good?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: Great?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: When was the last time we saw each other? Was
Speaker 1: it John's fifty?
Speaker 2: It was John sixty?
Speaker 1: Yeah sixty aging him? Yeah, John's sixtieth. Okay, that was
Speaker 1: a fun part where.
Speaker 4: We were all dressed, where we were all dressed in
Speaker 4: the sixties attire.
Speaker 3: Yes, well that LORI did you? I don't think. I
Speaker 3: don't think Lauri dressed up.
Speaker 4: I don't think Laurie did, because there's no way most did.
Speaker 2: Whenever I tell him Moss costume, He's like, no, I'm
Speaker 2: not no costume.
Speaker 3: Well was the same way He's like, costume, I'm not
Speaker 3: going yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so no, I don't think we did dress up.
Speaker 2: I think we just we went. It was fun nice, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh it was. It was very fun. Had a good time. Dave,
Speaker 3: it was I think you, me Andrea, Dave was Scott there.
Speaker 2: Scott was there, Yep, Scott was there.
Speaker 3: I think Canvas was working. Yeah, but I think I
Speaker 3: think it was everybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the gang was there. Yeah. Yeah. How are your
Speaker 2: How are your kids? How's everyone's kids doing? How are
Speaker 2: the kiddies good? Your girls are?
Speaker 3: Zoe is turning sixteen?
Speaker 2: No, eight days, my goodness. My recommendation is get her
Speaker 2: a driving instructor.
Speaker 4: Do not try to Oh yeah, yeah yeah she I
Speaker 4: signed up through Triple A. I mean, I actually am
Speaker 4: pretty calm though. Like I'm in We're driving around the
Speaker 4: neighborhood the other day and I posted a little picture
Speaker 4: of it. And it was weird because I'm sitting in
Speaker 4: the car and I like posted a picture and I'm like,
Speaker 4: you know, she's practicing her stops and goes in a
Speaker 4: neighborhood and I all of a sudden this moment and
Speaker 4: I was like, this feels weirdly normal, and that's weird.
Speaker 3: Like it was the fact that it felt normal. Was weird,
Speaker 3: but yeah, she and then b is going to high
Speaker 3: school next year.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: It just it's yeah, goodh crazy.
Speaker 2: And how's your gang doing, Andrea, They're good, They're great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Felicity's turning seventeen next week. The girls have almost
Speaker 1: the same birthday.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So she's been driving for a few months now. She
Speaker 1: already had her first accident, so that.
Speaker 3: Was very stressful. Yeah, it was just a little fender bender.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a major accident, and it was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, thank goodness. But yeah, she so now she
Speaker 1: doesn't want to drive anymore because she's nervous, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I get back up on that horse. You gotta just yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, exposure therapy.
Speaker 3: Just do it right.
Speaker 4: She could do what I did where I got my
Speaker 4: first speeding ticket and backed into someone all in a
Speaker 4: span of twenty minutes for the first time.
Speaker 3: Just give it, do it all, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: get it all over.
Speaker 2: Did you back into the cop I.
Speaker 3: Know, faithfully, I think that would have been.
Speaker 4: That would have been probably I probably still wouldn't be driving,
Speaker 4: but no, I was. I got the speeding ticket and
Speaker 4: then I was so flustered on my way to the
Speaker 4: bank that I would get in the bank and as
Speaker 4: I'm backing out, I.
Speaker 3: Just don't look that through.
Speaker 4: I bowled that way the days before backup cameras, and
Speaker 4: I back into some ladies car and I just burst
Speaker 4: into tears.
Speaker 3: I was like seventeen.
Speaker 4: It was my first like week at college, and I
Speaker 4: was just like, I can't do it.
Speaker 2: I know it's stressful, it's stressful. I think my first
Speaker 2: my first accident was when I was I was a teenager.
Speaker 2: My first accident was a low pole at the gas station.
Speaker 2: So thankfully nobody else was involved, but I backed up
Speaker 2: and I just didn't It was low, I couldn't see it,
Speaker 2: and I just took out like the backside of my car.
Speaker 3: Oh I did. I did that one parking, but only
Speaker 3: a few months later. Really actually after the ticket.
Speaker 4: And the other backup, isn't it. I also backed into
Speaker 4: a pool. All of my incidents have really been in reverse.
Speaker 3: But yeah, back and then took off because I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what's just happening.
Speaker 1: Just for backup cameras. You really needed the backup cameras
Speaker 1: in the in the nineties.
Speaker 4: Even with that, I'm it's still a panic anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 4: enough of my terrible driving.
Speaker 2: How's your family, Laurie good? Everybody? Goods are great. The
Speaker 2: girls are doing really well. Bella is trying her hand
Speaker 2: at acting, although it's a tough time to be an actor.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of work happening right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, breach.
Speaker 2: And she also she also started this really cool little company.
Speaker 2: She took up knitting and she really likes it. She's
Speaker 2: quite good at it. So she started this company and
Speaker 2: it's called the Bitch Knits. Cool. And the name came
Speaker 2: about because Olivia was teasing her and said, oh, and
Speaker 2: she was sitting and knitting. She's like, ah, the Bitch Knits,
Speaker 2: and I was like, that have a funny name for
Speaker 2: a company. And so she's been Yeah, so she's been
Speaker 2: home like a grandma, like knitting and then selling it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so she's doing well. She's doing that. And then Livi's
Speaker 2: is doing her YouTube channel still and awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah I did show a while back. It was great.
Speaker 3: It was really fun.
Speaker 1: Well, we've been talking a lot about these early seasons
Speaker 1: of Full House.
Speaker 3: We're in season two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ok, in season.
Speaker 1: Two, so Becky has arrived and so thank god, thank god,
Speaker 1: you came on the show.
Speaker 2: I came on what second was I second episode? Second season?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Second episode, second season? Yeah, and we.
Speaker 1: Were relieved because Jesse's just been this man horror for
Speaker 1: that entire first season.
Speaker 4: I gotta tell you, man, women watching in front of
Speaker 4: the children have been watching these first season and episodes
Speaker 4: and we're just like.
Speaker 3: Family Becky getting well, where's family show? What is he doing?
Speaker 3: But also we're like, when does Becky get here?
Speaker 4: And what does uncle Jesse become not a not an
Speaker 4: idiot like we did, Like what does it become like
Speaker 4: less of of his dad and more of like an actual,
Speaker 4: like decent, non misogynistic him in and uh it's around
Speaker 4: when you arrived.
Speaker 2: Thank good, So thanks for that. Yeah really, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4: Just he would make out with people in the living
Speaker 4: room in front of everybody. Tell me it's nobody had boundaries, no,
Speaker 4: not a launderies?
Speaker 2: How is that for you? Guys? When you were little,
Speaker 2: like on those episodes watching all that, or did you
Speaker 2: like it was it? Did you like what? It was?
Speaker 2: Just normal?
Speaker 3: Like whatever?
Speaker 4: I mean, if you've ever done I mean we were kids,
Speaker 4: so we hadn't, but like, if you've ever done a
Speaker 4: screen kiss, or been around a screen kiss you know,
Speaker 4: it is probably the least passionate, Oh yeah, exciting thing
Speaker 4: to witness. It's so awkward, and so I think, like
Speaker 4: you just kind.
Speaker 3: Of get the vibes as a kid, You're like, this
Speaker 3: is this is weird.
Speaker 4: I'm probably also judging, like why am I here while
Speaker 4: they're doing this?
Speaker 2: Because you're five.
Speaker 1: I have to bring up this story. I'm jumping ahead,
Speaker 1: but I have Speaking of screen kisses, I have to
Speaker 1: bring this up because Laura, I've been wanting to ask
Speaker 1: you this forever. Do you remember when this is probably
Speaker 1: season seven, when DJ and Steve broke up on a
Speaker 1: mountain and I had to have a screen kiss with
Speaker 1: whoever was my boyfriend at the time, and he was
Speaker 1: this like.
Speaker 3: Weird weird kid, like super weird.
Speaker 2: I was not.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to kiss him in rehearsal. I didn't
Speaker 1: even really want to kiss him during when the cameras
Speaker 1: were rolling. But anyways, I remember you, like everyone was
Speaker 1: very supportive on the set, and I remember you went
Speaker 1: to the guy and you were like, if you slipper
Speaker 1: the tongue, you're gonna have to answer.
Speaker 3: To me, dokie.
Speaker 1: Do you remember saying this to this guy.
Speaker 2: He was so because I think I remember you were
Speaker 2: so nervous and you were worried. Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 3: I was unhinged. I was so worried.
Speaker 2: So that sounds totally like something that. Yeah, that I
Speaker 2: that I would do for sure. I always was always
Speaker 2: so protective of all of you guys, you know. And
Speaker 2: I remember when Can just had her first kiss on
Speaker 2: screen and I don't even know, maybe that was her
Speaker 2: first kiss in life, and I think.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, most of us we were like, yeah, it was,
Speaker 4: it was the same, but it was yeah, I don't
Speaker 4: count it though.
Speaker 2: No you can't.
Speaker 3: You can't sing your grandma.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And she came to me and she said, do
Speaker 2: I keep my eyes open or closed? Do? We had
Speaker 2: like a little conversation about that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, but I like to keep my eyes open just
Speaker 4: to make it weird, make it weird and intimidate people.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, just open their eyes suddenly you're staring
Speaker 3: at them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: It was so great to have a female presence on
Speaker 1: the set, you know, with John, Bob and Dave fool
Speaker 1: it around all the time, like thank god you were there.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's so funny when when I came on.
Speaker 2: I was only supposed to do six episodes, that was
Speaker 2: what I was contracted for, but I knew when I
Speaker 2: got there, I just felt like I belonged there. And
Speaker 2: I remember the show was hadn't really hit its stride yet.
Speaker 2: And I remember I called my mother and I said,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm only supposed to be here for six episodes,
Speaker 2: but I have a feeling if this show makes it
Speaker 2: and it goes the distance, I'm going to be on
Speaker 2: it for the duration. Like I just had this weird
Speaker 2: feeling because I just felt like I was like this
Speaker 2: missing link to the puzzle, like this missing piece. And
Speaker 2: I remember the first speaking of the guys the first
Speaker 2: week that I was the first episode I shot. At
Speaker 2: the end of the week, my stomach, like Saturday morning,
Speaker 2: I woke up and I might stomach hurt, like it
Speaker 2: really hurt, like I had done a thousand, you know,
Speaker 2: sit ups, and I realized it was laughing. I realized
Speaker 2: like I had laughed so hard that week that I
Speaker 2: used muscles in my stomach I'd never used before. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's how funny, That's how funny those guys were. I
Speaker 2: mean they were wildly you know, inappropriate and politically and
Speaker 2: correct in all the best ways possible. Like they were
Speaker 2: so funny. I think about this stuff, especially in the
Speaker 2: morning when you guys were in school.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, see you you got the full experience.
Speaker 4: We got them the kid you got them yeah, oh
Speaker 4: oh boy, did you no? But we were, you know,
Speaker 4: sort of off being still having like kid time. But
Speaker 4: you were there and got to be in in it
Speaker 4: with the guys when.
Speaker 3: They were just off the rails, and it was so ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It was wild. They were so funny, nothing was off limits.
Speaker 2: Anything came out of their mouth like you I couldn't
Speaker 2: even repeat. I often used to think, it's too bad
Speaker 2: somebody isn't red these rehearsals because they were so funny.
Speaker 2: Although who knows, maybe we'd show them now. We'd get
Speaker 2: canceled in thirty seconds, like you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like it's just right.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It might have been better for everyone if they weren't,
Speaker 4: you know exactly.
Speaker 2: Times are so different now. But we had so much fun.
Speaker 2: We had so many laughs, and those guys were just
Speaker 2: off the chain. And then everyone would be like, kids
Speaker 2: are coming on the set, kids are coming on the set.
Speaker 2: Is rehrs, like guys like you gotta calm down, you
Speaker 2: gotta settle down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but of course Bob, you know Bob, and Bob
Speaker 4: to settled down was not that was.
Speaker 2: Like the opposite, like he would do the opposite game,
Speaker 2: like Okay, I'm gonna really go off the rails, and
Speaker 2: then we would all get in trouble and we would
Speaker 2: have to stay like basically after school, after you guys
Speaker 2: were left for the day and we had to go
Speaker 2: into the notes meeting. But a lot of times it
Speaker 2: was we had to stay after because we had to
Speaker 2: be reprimanded for Bob's bad behavior. And I would always
Speaker 2: be sitting there going like why am I here?
Speaker 3: I thought into this.
Speaker 2: Collateral, but Jeff frank Jeff Franklin didn't want to like
Speaker 2: single any of us out, so it was kind of
Speaker 2: general like okay, elective punishment, yeah, exactly when the kids
Speaker 2: are here and I'm like, oh man, and then we
Speaker 2: just go and the next day would be the same
Speaker 2: thing and.
Speaker 3: Be the same thing.
Speaker 2: There was no making do it all over again. Now.
Speaker 4: You talked about only being there for the first for
Speaker 4: six episodes. When you first came on, originally you were
Speaker 4: just going to be Danny's co host and and like
Speaker 4: go on one date with him or something. That was
Speaker 4: what I heard, like go on a date with him,
Speaker 4: realize it wasn't going to work out, and then you
Speaker 4: guys just work together, but you there was no like.
Speaker 2: But somewhere, but somewhere in the casting process, they must
Speaker 2: have thought of John and I being together there because
Speaker 2: I had to when I went into audition and I
Speaker 2: came back and I had the audition for Tom Miller
Speaker 2: and Bob Boyette, I had to do a chemistry read
Speaker 2: with John, not I never met Bob till I actually
Speaker 2: got on the show. So somewhere in there they were
Speaker 2: thinking about John and I together. So yeah, at some point,
Speaker 2: but I think.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that was like the initial
Speaker 4: thing was how to bring you in, and then they
Speaker 4: were like, wait, we think she's much better with Jesse
Speaker 4: or maybe they maybe everyone was just like we need
Speaker 4: to do something about this Jesse character.
Speaker 3: He needs some help.
Speaker 2: But they were like her, Yeah, but I was supposed
Speaker 2: to come on and be Bob's co host, and I
Speaker 2: think there was like a little bit of talk like
Speaker 2: maybe we went on a date that then that never
Speaker 2: came to fruition. It just became I came on because
Speaker 2: the first episode I remember was when John walks in
Speaker 2: the house and and I say, oh, you must be
Speaker 2: Danny's brother in law Jesse. And he's like, oh, like
Speaker 2: what did he say about me? And I know he's
Speaker 2: that he had a brother in law named Jesse like that.
Speaker 2: Like that was like the very like so there was
Speaker 2: like a they are like out of the gate. They
Speaker 2: wrote like a little kind of.
Speaker 4: We loved those moments though, By the way, those are
Speaker 4: some of our favorite Becky moments that we've seen because
Speaker 4: we're like, yes, put him in his place, that's him,
Speaker 4: thank you, thank you, Like no, we're not talking about you.
Speaker 3: It's not all about you, sir. Like you just happen
Speaker 3: to be here, you know what.
Speaker 4: I mean, Like he just I'm like, go off, Becky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was it was fun and that show
Speaker 2: was such a blessing. You know. I have such gratitude
Speaker 2: for all the years that I was on that show
Speaker 2: and all the family that we became and the good
Speaker 2: times and in you know, you'd have to pinch yourself
Speaker 2: and say, I'm getting paid to come here, like it
Speaker 2: was just it was amazing. It was just amazing. And
Speaker 2: I don't know, I mean, I have other friends that
Speaker 2: have worked on television series for you know, quite some time.
Speaker 2: I just don't know of any cast that came together
Speaker 2: like our cast, did, you know. It's just the chemistry,
Speaker 2: the formula was so perfect, and there was such true love,
Speaker 2: you know, that we all had for one another, you know.
Speaker 2: And I wonder sometimes is the fact that you guys
Speaker 2: were so little that it because there were little kids involved,
Speaker 2: it really felt like a family, you know, and we
Speaker 2: as adults and we weren't that old ourselves. We were
Speaker 2: in our twenties, but we were like just so protective
Speaker 2: of you guys, and you know, it was just it
Speaker 2: was just an all around wonderful experience.
Speaker 4: It was you know, we always say it too like
Speaker 4: it you guys were still young and in your twenties,
Speaker 4: but you guys were all family people like you all
Speaker 4: were warm, loving, carrying people in your real life, and
Speaker 4: so it was like this combination of people that were
Speaker 4: all you know that when there were the kids were there,
Speaker 4: of course, it just you naturally gravitated towards caretaking instead
Speaker 4: of being like, oh kids, know, there was not anybody
Speaker 4: in the cast that was like I hate kids.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody loved everyone.
Speaker 4: Yea, everybody loved kids, either wanted them, eventually had them,
Speaker 4: or like you know, it just was a real family environment.
Speaker 4: And that's not always the case in a group of actors.
Speaker 4: There's oftentimes people were like, that's not family life avor me,
Speaker 4: And that was definitely not our cast.
Speaker 3: And I think also because the kids had.
Speaker 4: Such prominent storylines, like the adults and the kids really
Speaker 4: interacted a lot more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, on our show, It's true. And you guys
Speaker 2: were all I was always amazed at how talented all
Speaker 2: of you, You and Candice and Andrea, Like, you guys
Speaker 2: were just so so funny, so spot on. You could
Speaker 2: bring the comedy, you could bring the heartfelt moments, like
Speaker 2: it was impressive to watch truly, you know, it was
Speaker 2: such a joy to watch you guys, to work with
Speaker 2: you guys, you know, it was just it was wonderful.
Speaker 2: You guys were great, still are. And then when you
Speaker 2: came back and did Fuller House, it was amazing, just
Speaker 2: amazing all of you, your comedy chops, everything right there,
Speaker 2: falling right back into line.
Speaker 3: It was really fun.
Speaker 2: Thanks Lori, Oh my god, I love you.
Speaker 3: We'll pay you later. Okayay, yeah, yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: rks for that.
Speaker 2: I'll give you my good mother.
Speaker 4: I would love to hear, though, how you got started
Speaker 4: in the business. I mean, one of the things that
Speaker 4: we've been having fun doing on the show is asking
Speaker 4: all the questions that we didn't know the answers to
Speaker 4: because we were kids, or that, you know, things we
Speaker 4: didn't get to know about all of the people on
Speaker 4: our show. And I know you were fifteen when you've
Speaker 4: got your first role.
Speaker 2: I was fifteen when I got a part on a
Speaker 2: soap opera. But how I started in the industry was
Speaker 2: I was eleven years old and I started out modeling,
Speaker 2: and it was and nobody in my family was in
Speaker 2: the entertainment industry. My father worked for the New York
Speaker 2: Telephone Company and my mother was a housewife. But when
Speaker 2: I was a kid, I was I always said I
Speaker 2: wanted to be an actress. And I think it was
Speaker 2: one of those things like, oh, you want to be
Speaker 2: an astronaut, you want to be whatever, you know, like biology, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, you're going to be an actress whatever. And
Speaker 2: then she had a friend that was taking her girls
Speaker 2: in and I grew up in New York. I was
Speaker 2: on Long Island, about an hour outside New York City,
Speaker 2: and my mother's good friends and I'm taking my daughters
Speaker 2: into a modeling agency they had, like at that time,
Speaker 2: it was just an open call. You brought some snapshots
Speaker 2: in to see if you were photogenic. And she said,
Speaker 2: I know, Laurie's always asking you if you know she
Speaker 2: wants to be an actress, and can I you know,
Speaker 2: do you want to go with us? Like, let's go
Speaker 2: and meet this agent. So my mom was like, well, okay,
Speaker 2: and so we went and the modeling agent. The woman,
Speaker 2: her name was Marge McDermott. She owned her own agency,
Speaker 2: and she took me on the spot. She looked at
Speaker 2: my photos and she said she said to the other
Speaker 2: my mom's good friend's daughter, She's like, no, you're I'm
Speaker 2: not going to take you guys. I don't know if
Speaker 2: they were kind of a little bit older or whatever,
Speaker 2: but I was the youngest one. And she said, but
Speaker 2: I'll take you and handed my mom like a contract.
Speaker 2: We walked out and my mom I think my mom
Speaker 2: was because I think my mom thought, oh, I'll shut
Speaker 2: her up, like she'll go in they won't take her.
Speaker 2: That'll be the end of that, you know, she'll be done.
Speaker 2: And then and then my parents were really cool. They
Speaker 2: said like, look, if you want. My dad happened to
Speaker 2: work in New York City, so it worked out well.
Speaker 2: My mom would pick me up after school. We'd go
Speaker 2: on you know, go sees and you know, modeling go
Speaker 2: Sees and my dad would beat us and then we
Speaker 2: would drive home together. But it was like a family
Speaker 2: effort out of the gate. And then when I was
Speaker 2: and then as I was like rolling along, and then
Speaker 2: I got a commercial agent. Then I started doing some commercials,
Speaker 2: although it was never very lucky in commercials. I did some,
Speaker 2: but I didn't book a ton of commercials. And then
Speaker 2: when I was fifteen, my manager sent me in on
Speaker 2: an audition for a soap opera called The Edge of Night.
Speaker 3: And remember that show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I had done one other small
Speaker 2: part in a TV movie with Blife Dianner and Michael
Speaker 2: Moriarty for NBC. It was a very small part, and
Speaker 2: I was studying a little bit of acting here and
Speaker 2: there with this lady. Her name is Sylvia Lee you'
Speaker 2: and she was very theatrical. She talked like this, darling anyway,
Speaker 2: That's what I study with her, but then I got
Speaker 2: sent on this this soap audition, and I remember my
Speaker 2: manager said, look, they really want someone who's eighteen years old.
Speaker 2: You're you're a little young. I was like two months
Speaker 2: shy of turning sixteen. She goes, but I'm going to
Speaker 2: send you in anyway. Meet the casting director. Just you know,
Speaker 2: don't tell him you're fifteen, say like you're seventeen or whatever.
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay. Meanwhile, I look like I'm twelve because
Speaker 2: I was just like, I don't want to like those right.
Speaker 2: So I go in and I meet the casting director
Speaker 2: and I'm just sitting there chatting, and when she says
Speaker 2: to me, how old are you? I go fifteen? And
Speaker 2: then I'm like I wasn't just to say that, like
Speaker 2: saying I'm seventeen. You know, you know actors on your resume,
Speaker 2: can your parachute out of a plane? Sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I done it off and did it last weekend.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: And then so she goes, oh, you know what, you're
Speaker 2: really too young for this role. But you know, I
Speaker 2: enjoyed meeting you. And I said okay, and I get
Speaker 2: up to leave her office and she goes, oh, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, come back, come back, read the sides for me,
Speaker 2: just reading there, you know. So I read the sides
Speaker 2: for her, and she goes, you know, you're too young,
Speaker 2: but I like you, so I'm going to bring you
Speaker 2: back for the producers. And at the time, Procter and Gamble.
Speaker 2: That's why they were called soaks, right, because they were
Speaker 2: sponsored by companies that made companies schwashing detergent, launder detergent.
Speaker 3: And targeted towards housewives exactly.
Speaker 2: And so I went in and I read for all
Speaker 2: the people at Procter and Gamble and the people at ABC,
Speaker 2: and she brought and I'll never forget they When I
Speaker 2: got into the audition, they had like a lot of
Speaker 2: girls there and they all were looked much older than me.
Speaker 2: They were older than me. And they had some guys
Speaker 2: that were casting a male role too, and they paired
Speaker 2: us up with you know, the guy, and we had
Speaker 2: to go in an audition together. And I will never
Speaker 2: forget this. I don't know his last name. All I
Speaker 2: know is his first name was Todd. The actor I
Speaker 2: was paired up with. And literally before as the casting
Speaker 2: walking us to the audition room, as she's putting her
Speaker 2: hand on the doorknob. He turns around and he says
Speaker 2: to me, you know, every time I audition with a
Speaker 2: girl for a soap opera, she gets the role and
Speaker 2: I don't. And literally we walk in the room, we
Speaker 2: do the audition. Two hours later, I get a call.
Speaker 2: I got the part. I have no idea what happened
Speaker 2: to Todd. Oh no, that funny, but I'll never forget that.
Speaker 2: And so then thanks Todd, I know man.
Speaker 3: And then he charmed Todd, I mean, not for himself,
Speaker 3: but exactly for everyone else.
Speaker 2: He was so sweet. I can still see his face
Speaker 2: and I don't remember his last name. I don't know
Speaker 2: if he's still in the business, but that's exactly what
Speaker 2: he said to me. And then I got that part.
Speaker 2: And I was on that show for three and a
Speaker 2: half years, and it was wonderful because I really was green.
Speaker 2: I didn't know what I was doing, and at the time,
Speaker 2: I was supposed to be playing this ballet dancer. And
Speaker 2: they never they didn't make you audition and dance. They
Speaker 2: just said, oh, do you have any dance training? So
Speaker 2: you know, of course to collective, Oh sure I can dance,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm like, yeah, sure, don't worry, and when
Speaker 2: I got to work the first day, I barely knew
Speaker 2: how to act. I get to an actual dance studio
Speaker 2: set with a choreographer, and I was like, oh man,
Speaker 2: I'm in way over my head, like and then I
Speaker 2: finally had to go to the producers and be like, look,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize when you asked for dancing that it
Speaker 2: was like full choreography and you know, and in hindsight,
Speaker 2: I'm like, it was going to be a snippet of
Speaker 2: ten seconds. But I was so rattled because I couldn't
Speaker 2: even I didn't even know how to act, that they
Speaker 2: were like, Okay, honey, don't worry about it. So in
Speaker 2: the world of soap opera, I was the hopeful ballerina
Speaker 2: but I really couldn't dance, but nobody tell her she
Speaker 2: didn't have talent. Like that's how they kind of ow
Speaker 2: my story. And then I became it was a mystery soap,
Speaker 2: and then I became like the little Nancy Drew of
Speaker 2: the of daytime television, and I was on that. I
Speaker 2: was on that show three and a half years and
Speaker 2: I was kidnapped seven and tie. Wow, that sounds about right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's like the luck of like a war reporter
Speaker 4: or something that's yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2: And then well, Andrew, I'm so when you were little.
Speaker 1: I did Days of our Lives, so I was I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: what was I? I think I was kidnapped once brainwashed?
Speaker 1: Maybe uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you die and come back to life? That's always almost.
Speaker 3: Did you have an evil twin?
Speaker 2: I knew I was an.
Speaker 4: Evil twin that killed you and then and then took
Speaker 4: over your life and pretended to be you, and then
Speaker 4: you came back to life and killed them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's how I started. And then it was
Speaker 2: great training because I worked with all these wonderful theater actors.
Speaker 2: Every one of those actors, I think they all had
Speaker 2: a show on Broadway or off Broadway. We'd leave the studio,
Speaker 2: I would go home. I would continue Like the child
Speaker 2: labor laws were different in New York, so I had
Speaker 2: to go to school at night. I had to provide
Speaker 2: to find my own tutors. It was like a whole.
Speaker 2: But they would all go to the theater. But they
Speaker 2: were wonderful because they all like kind of took me
Speaker 2: and they all studied it, you know, different, you know whatever.
Speaker 2: They at Strausburg and my friend Joel went to Harvard,
Speaker 2: and but they all would take me and sort of
Speaker 2: help me out and teach me. And so I felt
Speaker 2: like even though I was I had to be ready
Speaker 2: and be prepared, and I was going live every day
Speaker 2: on television or not live, you know, you like tape whatever.
Speaker 2: We'd tape them. They would exactly, we would tape it
Speaker 2: and then it would air like a couple days later.
Speaker 2: But they shot it like it was a live show,
Speaker 2: which was interesting because they I'm sure they did you
Speaker 2: do block tape, Andrea, is that how you guys did it?
Speaker 2: Like you'd shoot that one scene and then you or
Speaker 2: you'd finish everything in that set. We would do everything live,
Speaker 2: like go from set to set, and they type in
Speaker 2: the soap opera music as well. It's kind of it
Speaker 2: was maybe they kept it. Yeah, they kept it running
Speaker 2: like it was a live TV show because it started
Speaker 2: out as a live TV show, started out on radio,
Speaker 2: then it moved to tele live television, and they shot
Speaker 2: it was like a live TV show. So we knew
Speaker 2: every day we'd be out by four o'clock because we
Speaker 2: shoot that show like it was live.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 2: But I was like working with all these wonderful actors.
Speaker 2: Who took the time to teach me and take me
Speaker 2: under their wing. And and that was my first big break.
Speaker 2: And that's how I met John. That's how I met
Speaker 2: Samos because he was doing General Hospital. We were both
Speaker 2: on ABC and he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy
Speaker 2: and I was the presenter that year of that award,
Speaker 2: and that's how that's how I met him. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Yeah, and that's how we first met.
Speaker 2: And did he win or no? He didn't know. Darnell
Speaker 2: Williams from All My only Todd was there. If only
Speaker 2: Todd had been there to listen till this stay stays,
Speaker 2: Why couldn't you just say my name? Well, of course
Speaker 2: he did. But lovely Darnell Williams one. He was great.
Speaker 2: He was on All My Children. Okay, okay, so okay. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I feel like soaps are also great training because you
Speaker 4: you are it's every day, it's it's a news every day,
Speaker 4: and it's like it really hones in your memorization skills
Speaker 4: ability to just kind of go with whatever is happening,
Speaker 4: especially if you're shooting live.
Speaker 3: To tape like it's a live show.
Speaker 4: You're like, all right, well that fell off the wall
Speaker 4: and we're just gonna keep going.
Speaker 2: That's it. And they would do that if you could. Ye.
Speaker 2: I worked with this actor who would go up on
Speaker 2: his lines quite frequently, and I could always tell when
Speaker 2: he was going to go up because his eyes would
Speaker 2: kind of start to shake in his sockets, Like I
Speaker 2: could tell he start to panic because he was like
Speaker 2: going to forget his lines. So I would memorize my
Speaker 2: lines and his lines and if I could pick it
Speaker 2: up or feed him a que I would do it
Speaker 2: and they would keep going. They would let it, they
Speaker 2: would let it go.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's like theaters.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you can save each whatever, as long as
Speaker 4: we get through it.
Speaker 2: Exactly, That's exactly what it was like. But it was
Speaker 2: great training in that in that regard, because you're on
Speaker 2: the spot, you had to do it, you had to
Speaker 2: figure it out, you know, it was something, and then
Speaker 2: you could watch it back, which was also you know,
Speaker 2: very valuable.
Speaker 3: So oh I love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like it's like boot camp for actors.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, Yeah, it is exactly what it's like.
Speaker 3: I had no idea that you and John had met previously.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we had.
Speaker 4: We were friends, Like I mean I knew you were
Speaker 4: both on on soap operas at the same time, but
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
Speaker 2: We met and we kept in touch for a little while,
Speaker 2: and I think I was maybe like seventeen, he was eighteen.
Speaker 2: He's a year older than me, like seventeen, eighteen years
Speaker 2: old when we met babies and we stayed touch. But
Speaker 2: he lived in California. I remember I came out. Oh
Speaker 2: here's a trivia question for you guys. So I came
Speaker 2: out to California and I was in touch with John
Speaker 2: and he invited me to go where with him?
Speaker 3: Disneyland?
Speaker 2: Where you go?
Speaker 3: Shocker?
Speaker 2: So we went to disney Land. His friends do you
Speaker 2: remember Jimmy, Joe and those guys Papa do run run anyway?
Speaker 2: To go see Al.
Speaker 3: I was at his wedding. My family became really close
Speaker 3: with Alan, his family through John.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's so funny. Yeah. So anyway, we
Speaker 2: went to see the band, We went on stage Disneyland,
Speaker 2: and we kind of stayed in touch. And then he
Speaker 2: came to New York with a bunch of his friends
Speaker 2: and I had my girlfriends with me and we went
Speaker 2: out one night in New York City. But we didn't,
Speaker 2: you know, there was. It was not the time of
Speaker 2: cell phones. It was not the time of texting. You
Speaker 2: had to pick up the phone and call each other.
Speaker 2: And so then we sort of just drifted apart. And
Speaker 2: then the role on Full House came along, and I
Speaker 2: guess I was about twenty three, so you know, maybe
Speaker 2: four or five years later. And when I got the
Speaker 2: call to audition, they said, oh this. We had the
Speaker 2: same agent and my agent said, oh, my other client,
Speaker 2: John SteamOS, And I'm like, oh, I know John SteamOS
Speaker 2: and he's like, yeah, he's doing this show. And I'm
Speaker 2: like okay, great. And I was flat broke when I
Speaker 2: got the audition for Fullhouse. I had paid my rent
Speaker 2: and I had there had been like a strike. I
Speaker 2: hadn't worked for over a year. Remember I paid my rent.
Speaker 2: I walked into my agent's office and I was like,
Speaker 2: I need a job, like I'm I'm broke, like I
Speaker 2: And he said, oh, I just got this call. There's
Speaker 2: an audition. They were interested in seeing you. It's just
Speaker 2: six episodes for this show. And that's when he said
Speaker 2: my client, John Stamos. I'm like I know John. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: is this this is his show? New show? Or would
Speaker 2: you want to go in an audition for these six episodes,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I will audition for anything, like anything, right,
Speaker 2: So that's how I ended up there, and then it
Speaker 2: was such a blessing because I stayed for seven years. Wow.
Speaker 2: So you guys never dated?
Speaker 1: You and John, Like, I feel like there's rumors that
Speaker 1: you guys dated.
Speaker 2: Before Full House, but that's not true because we were
Speaker 2: I think because we were friends, and I think, you know,
Speaker 2: like you know, when we were first hanging out, maybe
Speaker 2: if we had lived on the same coast, maybe something
Speaker 2: like we just we was like we kind of had
Speaker 2: these little hangout things and then.
Speaker 3: You know, we're young and cute, and you know, I
Speaker 3: like to.
Speaker 2: Tell some crazy story about you made out on the
Speaker 2: matter horn and I'm like what, But I think it's
Speaker 2: just that's just for me in his own history, or
Speaker 2: he's just he's.
Speaker 3: Just old now. I'm just skidding.
Speaker 2: He's just funny, but he's Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's so crazy though to think about that, Like you
Speaker 4: and John had met previously, Bob and Dave were friends previously,
Speaker 4: but like there, I mean, it's sort of also the
Speaker 4: nature of this business, right, is that if you're in
Speaker 4: it for a little while everyone sort of knows each other,
Speaker 4: but the way that all of us did, or that
Speaker 4: the adults on the show had connected previously, was not
Speaker 4: It was sort of happenstance and like not uh intentional,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean, It wasn't planned. Everyone was
Speaker 4: like Dave was in Detroit and Bob was on tour
Speaker 4: and that you know how everything sort of came together
Speaker 4: and then it was like we all like came back
Speaker 4: and there was just a level of like commonality already there.
Speaker 4: It was like all of our little stars had already
Speaker 4: sort of intertwined.
Speaker 2: You know, Dave was stayed on Bob's couch. I mean,
Speaker 2: they really did have that same relationship as Danny and
Speaker 2: and Joey and they.
Speaker 4: Were seventeen eighteen when they met, and seineteen eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 3: You and John eighteen seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's funny all of us, from the adults
Speaker 4: to the kids, have known each other almost our whole lives.
Speaker 2: Well, gosh, Judy, I mean I think about you guys.
Speaker 2: What you were five when I met you? I mean yeah, five, Mary,
Speaker 2: Kate and Ashley were what were they nine months? Ten months? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Nine months? The first season, Yeah.
Speaker 2: So when I came along, so they were a little
Speaker 2: bit older, but still but they really really talking yet.
Speaker 2: And what you and Candae Andrew were you ten when.
Speaker 3: I met you.
Speaker 1: We were ten years old when we started the show,
Speaker 1: So yeah, ten. I mean, we've known you about their lives.
Speaker 2: I know, it's crazy, but it's lovely. It's just so yeah,
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 3: It's generations.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, you guys have the adults the
Speaker 4: legacy has known each other since they were teenagers.
Speaker 3: We've known each other our whole lives, like what, yeah,
Speaker 3: and our kids have now, you know. I mean it's
Speaker 3: I know, you know, I mean to.
Speaker 4: Think that, like our kids are now almost as old
Speaker 4: as you guys were when you all sort of randomly
Speaker 4: met out there.
Speaker 2: Yeahs blowing, that's wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't imagine my life without you guys, Like
Speaker 1: I just can't even right sure, I know, before you
Speaker 1: guys or without you, No, it's.
Speaker 3: No, I don't really remember anything without you guys in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 2: Isn't that funny? Which would make sense because you were fine.
Speaker 2: It's true, how many memories you really have before you're five.
Speaker 2: That's sort of like when you start like holding onto
Speaker 2: your memories five, six, seven years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and all of them, I mean all of them,
Speaker 4: have you guys in them. You know, when I think
Speaker 4: of holidays, I think of like being at home, but
Speaker 4: I also think of our Christmas parties or like getting
Speaker 4: gifts for everyone on set or do you know, like
Speaker 4: everything that we grew up with was just so tied
Speaker 4: into this show. Are we doing outros or do we
Speaker 4: need to?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: We should we?
Speaker 4: I should probably just roll into it instead of announcing it,
Speaker 4: you know, like I don't know, leave this in right.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm just I just wanted to clarify,
Speaker 4: make sure I didn't like, you know, well, some time
Speaker 4: doing an outro and you were like, wait, what are
Speaker 4: we doing?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes we're like are we still recording?
Speaker 3: Are we not?
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like let's just tap.
Speaker 4: Just just roll it right, just push record and who
Speaker 4: knows what happens? Anything, well, anything goes, And if you've
Speaker 4: been listening to this podcast, you know that anything goes.
Speaker 4: And we are just the pinnacle of organization and professionalism here.
Speaker 3: Uh and you all love LRI just as much as
Speaker 3: we do. So we didn't want to skimp out on
Speaker 3: any questions for this interview.
Speaker 4: We will be releasing Part two with LORII this Friday,
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Ab for being here. You're amazing.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to say it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a rare and lovely moment of expression.
Speaker 3: Of your heart. You do have a heart. I do
Speaker 3: have a big heart. I have a big heart and
Speaker 3: lots of feelings. I just hide them under a way
Speaker 3: you do because it's scary. You do. I love you
Speaker 3: well and I appreciate you every day.
Speaker 4: I love you and I appreciate you too. Now let's
Speaker 4: see if I can now don't appreciation right? Hold on,
Speaker 4: get your bracelet.
Speaker 3: My bracelet.
Speaker 4: I got it, but I got to make sure I
Speaker 4: start at the right the Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, the world is small, but the house is full
Speaker 1: effortless thanks to the brace that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about effortless but minimal. Cheers, cheers
Speaker 4: H