WEBVTT - Some Time With... Blake McIver Ewing! 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.720 Hey there, fan Ritos, Welcome back to a brand new 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:26.119 episode of How Rude Tanner Ritos. Today, we have a 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.200 guest that we are so excited to talk to. You 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.680 know him as Derek from Full House or Waldo from 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.839 The Little Rascals. It's Blake mcgiver ewing. Blake isn't just 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:41.000 a talented actor. He's a director, a composer, a singer, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.000 a vocal coach, a personal trainer. I mean, the list 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.600 just goes on and on, and we can't wait to 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.000 catch up with him and talk about Full House and 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.480 everything beyond. So let's welcome Blake. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:58.520 Yayyay, Hey, Hello. 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:02.200 We were just admired in your headshot on your profile picture. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:06.960 You'll great, yes, yes, Oh my gosh, it's so good 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:07.839 to see you. 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.280 So good to see both of you. My goodness. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.640 I know it's been a few years. We saw you 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.880 briefly on Fuller House, which is great to have you 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:17.080 back on the show. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.959 That was so fun, so fun. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:20.880 But were you back for the wet Was it the 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.840 wedding episode that very last episode? Yeah, yeah, yeah, the 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.720 wedding Okay, the wedding episode, yeah yeah, I. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:27.760 Know, yeah, I know. We got to have a lot 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.360 of people come back for that one. That was really fun. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.360 Danny was trying to find a minister, I think, and 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.240 so you were like auditioning with jazz hands. 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.160 Right, that's right. Yeah, yeah, he was doing the Yankee 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:39.680 Doodle moment. 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.679 Yes, and I came in with tap shoes like I 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:43.520 would of course, darn y. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:45.679 Yeah, they were like, could you tell you like, I'll 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.960 bring the tap shoes. Yeah, I got it, I got 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:48.960 it handled. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.240 Do fans ask you to do the Yankee Doodle Boys 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.360 song or any any of those things when you're out. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.880 In about absolutely, yes, I get requests for it. Also, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.800 it's like, you know, this is this is the time 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.880 of year where I like start to hunker down like 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:09.400 like a cold war b you know, my fourth is 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:14.560 coming this season. Yeah, the memes start coming, the. 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:20.720 Memes yeah yeah, yeah, you can't the whole yeah. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.000 The hat, the suit, the whole business, all of it. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.040 I mean, it was fabulous. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.560 It was so great. But yes, we understand is former 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.280 child actors what that is like when that follows you around. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.600 For the host, like, yeah, it takes there's like the 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.280 the in between period of like oh no, not again, 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:36.960 and then you're. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.960 Like you know there's a meme of me. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.280 It's a mean people know what it is like, people 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:43.680 are like, yep, I know what that means. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:48.840 Yeah, yeah, Yeah. Honestly, it as an honor and I'm 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:50.480 glad that it still brings people joy. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:52.480 Right, it absolutely does. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.840 Now, speaking of uh, Andrew sort of said it too 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.280 on your Instagram bio. It states you're a recovering child actor, 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.320 which I know we can all relate to. 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:03.839 Yes, I might steal that. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.280 That's fantastic, right. 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.799 Yeah, absolutely please steal it. Yeah, I feel like we're 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:13.240 all in recovery always. We're not. Yea, it's a lots 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:18.000 but yeah, but you know, people ask me about it 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.160 all the time and I'm like, no, it's not a 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.040 negative thing. It's just like there's a constant process of recovery. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:22.120 You know. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.640 I was lucky that I wanted to do it. My 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:25.600 parents didn't push me. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.359 Into it, and you know, we all you were one 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.800 of those kids you're kind of like me. You know 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.880 that you came out and you were like, let's go. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.160 Yeah, very that And since both my parents were in 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.760 show business, they didn't care at all. They were like, well, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.080 if you're going to do it, just don't embarrass you know, 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.320 just just do it, yeah, do it well, well be 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:47.880 good at least be good at it. But it's so 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.160 funny because you become a teenager, you become a you know, 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.200 an adolescent, and it doesn't matter. There is still there 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.280 is still a life learning curve and so that it's 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.120 really it's more about that. It's like we recover in 0:03:59.160 --> 0:03:59.840 our own way. 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.200 Yeah, and I think, you know, sort of the. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.000 You have to there's a whole extra layer of getting 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:14.440 through that, that thing of being known as something for 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.520 a child, most people don't have to like shake off, 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:23.159 you know, a career at thirteen, you know, and be 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.400 like who am I now? You know, so like it 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:28.680 And it's at a time I always said it like, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.440 it's at the time when you're really trying to figure 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:35.279 out who you are anyway, and now you're be pretending 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.479 to be somebody else, but other people think you're this. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:40.200 You know, it's just a it does create I think 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.799 some layers of like self identity that take a little 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:45.520 bit more to get through. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.720 Really absolutely, it's it's it is an identity crisis of 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.280 a sort. And I always try to explain to people, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.200 you know, when you have your mid career crisis at 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:55.599 like eighteen, right, Yeah. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:56.960 I would call it my quarter life. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.960 Crisis because I'm like, I was about, like, I don't know, fourteen, fifteen. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:01.840 Years and I was like, what is my life? 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:02.839 What am I doing? 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:03.560 Right? 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.719 Yeah, exactly exactly. 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.320 And anytime you anytime you run into another former child 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:11.760 actor from the nineties, it's like you have this like 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.240 your own language and it's like one big fraternity sorority 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.160 where it's like, oh yeah, I can relate to that too. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:18.680 Oh yeah, I can relate to that. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.200 Too, absolutely. And I feel like we were so lucky, 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.000 you know I did. I did a lot of like 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.760 episodic work on other shows at the time, and every 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.360 time I did another show, I was like, oh my god, 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.480 our set is so we are so lucky. I just 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.520 always felt that way special place. 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.840 Yeah, it really, it really was a special place. Everyone 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.200 that has come on the show and has done interviews 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.480 have been like that was just it wasn't like any 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.240 place else to work, And yeah, it just wasn't. We 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.560 were very an Emisodic can be a grind, like it's 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.400 a long days, and sitcom is kind of a well 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.640 oiled machine that you just you know, jump on the 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:55.760 treadmill for a week and then hop off for a 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:56.279 couple of days. 0:05:56.320 --> 0:06:00.040 Yeah, right, and dropping into somebody else's rhythm is so 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.120 so difficult. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.760 Yes, yeah, especially as a kid. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.800 But you know, you and Taj and Journey Smallett when 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.359 she came out, you know, you guys did such a 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.080 great job with it, you know, just kind of like 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.760 adapting and fitting right in and becoming part of the 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.520 you know, part of the kid crew. 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.719 Yeah, it was such a delight. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.680 Michelle really did have outstanding friends, Like just looking did 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:28.080 Nico Hughes like you said, like, yeah, all of yourself? Wow, dang, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.080 she had some really talented friends. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:30.719 Yeah. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.360 Yeah, heavy hitters from the start yep, straight out of 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.640 the room. Right, So speaking straight out of the room, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.799 when did you know you wanted to be an actor? 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.240 I imagined probably pretty soon after that, as was for 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:43.720 some of us. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.280 Yes, yeah, I knew. I knew pretty pretty early on. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.400 I started, you know, seeing around the house dancing at 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.880 the TV, and my mom was like, it sounds like 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:55.120 a little better than just you know, kid humming, So 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.240 maybe I should explore this. And my mom coming from 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.360 a variety TV back she was on The Dean Martin Show, 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:03.600 so she came to LA in the sixties and danced 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.320 for Dean Martin for his entire variety show. So a 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.120 huge career and so hilariously. She was like, she thought, well, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.120 since since she came from dance, She's like, if I 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.400 put him in dance first, he might lose interest because 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.720 it takes so much discipline, so much well the dance. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:21.480 The only dance teacher she knew here in LA was 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.480 a former teacher of hers from Houston that had a 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.720 studio out in See Me Valley whose name was Patsy Swayze. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:32.480 That Swayze like literally Patrick's mom whow And so Patrick's 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:38.080 mom taught me to dance essentially amazing And the very first, 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.000 the very first time I ever did like a patriotic thing, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.000 like any The very first incarnation of Yankee Doodle was 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.960 a dance competition that was at the Beverly Garland. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:50.800 Hotel Dance Competition, right. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.360 And I was too young to compete, So she had 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.080 me do this little dance routine for the audience while 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.120 the judges were tabulating between act Yes, and that was 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.160 the first time I sang Yankee Doodle Dandy. And the 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.440 director of Star Search was one of the judges, and 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.720 he approached my parents right after and said, will your 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.640 son audition for the next season of Star Search? And 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.520 that's how Yankee Doodle got from the ballroom. 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:18.320 To Oh my gosh severly Garland through Stars Star Search. 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.360 And then it was the Full House producers seeing me 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.800 do it on Star Search that wrote the episode about 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.360 the patriotic show. And then I came in an audition 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:29.520 cold because they didn't know if I could act or 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.280 talk or. 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.120 You're great Yankee doo o. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.920 We don't know about the kids sing on TV. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.720 I remember that's important. 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:38.800 Yeah. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.680 So it was a really quick I mean not quick 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.840 because it was years, but but it felt like a 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.960 really fast trajectory on this one song brought me. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.240 Well, I mean, let's be fair, you were what eight, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:48.839 So I. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.439 Mean it really wasn't years, It wasn't relatively fast. 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.480 Yeah, it was pretty fast. 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.800 Yeah. So, so was Full House your first acting job 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.480 then or how did that go from? Did you do 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.240 anything between Star Search and Full House? 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:05.160 I did? I did one. I was I was in 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:10.720 a movie called Calendar Girl with Jason Priestley Jerry O'Connell. Yeah, 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.960 and I played young Jerry O'Connell. In the flashback. Oh 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.720 my god, it's just all yeah, yeah, right, so I 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.520 did I had done that and that was so that 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.640 was kind of the first time on a film set. 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:27.680 And then but yeah, first sitcom experience was was full house. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.199 Man, Oh, your parents must have been so proud. 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.040 That so great? And how old were you were you? What? 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:35.480 Seven? 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:35.880 Eight? 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:39.280 I think I was seven when I that first that Yankee. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.160 Do I believe I was seven? Yeah, because I think 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:42.400 I was on the show seven eight nine. 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.280 Yeah, And you said you auditioned cold, Like, do you 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.079 remember the process of auditioning or was it. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:49.440 One of those things where you're like, I don't know. 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.480 It just kind of blends into other auditions that I did, but. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.400 That one blends in. What I do remember is how 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.880 quickly I went from my last like reading with producers 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.720 to the table because like the episode was already going, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.880 oh yeah. And so what I do remember is walking 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.000 into the table because of course I watched the show, 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.920 So walking into the room with all of you sitting there, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.600 I was like, oh, this is legit, Like, this is 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.040 it I have I have arrived at this conference table 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.080 and there they all are, and I'm like, I just 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:19.080 don't mess it up. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:25.080 Oh you couldn't not anymore than we were always messing up. 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.440 Have you seen the show at that point? Were you 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.360 a fan? Did you watch the huge? 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.840 Yeah? I was already watching it every week. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.160 Okay, so that was because this was like season five, 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:38.080 so this was this was the height. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.440 Of Yeah, you guys were at the peak. 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.240 We were well established by that point. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:43.560 Oh yes, Oh my gosh. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.360 Yeah, how intimidating to walk into that table read and be. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.440 Like, there's right literally and you do. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.840 I mean, do you remember what your first day on 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:56.400 set was? 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:56.560 Like? 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:58.280 Do you remember coming to set? 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.000 I do I remember coming set? I remember sort of 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.000 hilariously reconnecting with Mary Kate Nashley because one of my 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:11.600 best childhood friends went to preschool with them. Oh okay, yeah, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.360 that little preschool on Colfax right down the way. And 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.200 so we had been to like some birthday parties together 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:22.160 and like socialized, you know, very you know, as briefly 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:23.679 as you do when you're a. 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.520 Kid, but still you're like, oh, I know you. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.560 But yeah, it's like I've met you before. This is 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.400 not weird. And then yeah, and then just uh, realizing 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.040 how quickly because I had done a bunch of on 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.360 stage work and so realized. I was so nervous the 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.360 first couple of days, but realizing how much a camera 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.720 blocking rehearsal was just just like a rehearsal, the same 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.920 as doing a play, and I was like, great, cool, Yes, the. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.679 Move from like live theater to sitcom is kind of 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.200 their sort of cousins. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.880 Yeah, they totally are. And joel's Wick was the director 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.840 of the first episode, that Yankee Doodle episode, and so 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:59.240 it was great. It was just like, oh, I know 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.080 this guy, this guy, I knows me. We get it, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.640 Like it was just immediately easy. He made it so 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:04.960 fun and casual. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.560 Yeah, Joe really did. And he was so great at 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.679 working with kids, Like as crazy as he was in 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.920 like his little you know, just running around, you know what, 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.920 but like he just he was there was such love 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:19.240 about him that you were like whatever, you know what 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.319 I mean, Like he just wanted things done, and he 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.880 wanted his brain moves nine thousand miles an hour. 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.120 And he knew what he wants. He knows exactly what 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.000 he wants and. 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:30.000 That was the thing that made it so easy jumping 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.280 in because it was like there was no margin for confusion. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.360 It was like no, no, no, here are the parameters, here's 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.320 what he wants, here's what we're trying to get to. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.640 So it was like there was no fear. It was 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.120 just kind of like just everybody's diving in together, which 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:44.120 felt really cool. 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:45.120 Yeah, yeah for sure. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.480 Now you you guys had kind of a little crew 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:53.800 in Michelle's classroom. It was like you, Miko, Journey, and Taj. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.000 Right, uh huh, and. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.160 You guys were all. 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.280 Like in the same class that's all in the. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.240 Amazing Did you hang out when you weren't on stage 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.200 or were you just in school the whole time or 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.080 what was that dynamic? 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:10.040 We we did our school hours altogether in that in 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:10.959 those rooms up. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.400 Behind Ashley, Mary Kate had their own because they were 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.320 like five years younger than us, So we were like 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.719 I was upper elementary and you were like early high 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.480 school and then the younger kids were yeah. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.280 Yeah, so we all did our school hours together every day, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.360 even though we were all at different schools. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.800 Right, so much fun. Yeah, the school room is like 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:32.880 the place of bonding. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:37.200 Yeah, yeah, that's so. Who was was well it wasn't Adria. 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.480 Who was this? Do you remember your studio teacher? 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.120 Because Adrian was there. I definitely remember remember Adrian was there, I. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.600 Think still working with Ashley Mary Kate, but I don't 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:46.880 think she was the teacher at that point. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:52.880 I don't know. Was it Rhonda's sister she take over 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.880 as their teacher at one point? 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.760 Remember who had over for the little kids? I can 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.240 only remember MiNet. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.960 Throw some fan rito it out there is like I 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.480 have the entire production casting crew list for a season. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:05.520 I can tell you. 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.200 Someone started and stopped right yeah, and what car they 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:15.319 got to drive on everything. Do you have any favorite 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.960 memories from like full House working with all the kids 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.040 and having fun like or do you just sort of 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.320 remember getting to come to work and it being a 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:24.600 good place to work. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.080 It was always yeah, I mean the overall was it 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.840 was always a great place to work. It was always 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.680 a relief I was. I was basically in regular school 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.280 throughout my working life, so it was always coming in 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.560 and out, and I just remember feeling so relieved when 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.520 I'd get you know, that Monday would just be like ah, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.240 you know, showing up at work was just like, oh great, 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.000 I know what, I know how this is going to go. 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.400 I know how fun this is going to be. I 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.200 love these people. I love laughing with these people. You know, 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.560 we we have a goal. I'm a very goal oriented person. 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.600 I loved that. I loved that final producer run because 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.040 it really felt like a show with high stage, you know, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.280 like we had to we had to prove that those 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.360 jokes were worth it. Yeah, exactly, And that was so 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.720 fun and exciting. And then tape day always just felt 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.280 like a you know, a big party. It is. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.800 It's like a weird circus and you're like, but also, 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.160 this is my job, but there's like a circus going on. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.400 There's a full yeah, but there's also a show happening. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.840 And it was very it was very weird and in 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.800 a cool way at getting to do some some cool things, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.840 like when we did that soccer episode and we were 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.480 out at the polo field out at were Rogers. Yeah 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.400 yeah yeah. And just like being the goalie and being bad, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.840 like getting to be bad at sports on purpose was 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:37.560 so fantastic for me. Every every year at Pride, I 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.920 post the screen cap of me holding the rainbow goalie. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:47.680 My face is like, oh yes, classic, I love that. 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.920 Oh man, I love it. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.520 Oh god, I forgot about that soccer episode. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.720 We're not there yet, We're still we just started. Yeah, yeah, 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:57.720 so we're not quite there yet. 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.680 We haven't met your character yet but soon. 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.400 Derek hasn't come, but did just. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.360 Meet Teddy, so it's not not long, not far. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.240 Were you like Derek as a little kid, was or 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.040 was he vastly different than than your own person. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.200 I think there were a lot of similarities. You know. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:30.680 I was very, very precocious and very you know, able 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.400 to speak my mind and think, well, why shouldn't things 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.080 just be like that? You know. I feel like he 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.360 was always just kind of telling Michelle, like, well, why 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:39.320 don't you just do it like? You know? And I was. 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.960 I was kind of a bossy kid, nice and so yeah, 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.800 it was. It was very close. It was not until 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.640 I did some other roles where I really became the villain, 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.960 became the battie, and that was like, that was further 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.040 away from the truth. But you know, they were all 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.240 they were all kind of precocious and in their own way. 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.600 But yeah, Derek, Derek and I always feel I always 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:00.200 think when we were doing Fuller House, so I was 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.080 always thinking about, like, oh, where is Derek, Like I 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.320 hope he's teaching high school theater in San Francisco. 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.480 I was gonna say, he hasn't left San Francisco. 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:08.600 No, no, no, no, he is. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:13.040 He's well connected in the community, yes, and yeah he's teaching. Yeah, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.119 he's definitely teaching theater at some like kind of like 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.320 avant garde Conservatory San Francisco, so. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.640 Aggressive, like yeah, feeds into a art like yeah. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.520 Yeah. 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:28.600 See, this is such a missed opportunity not having Michelle 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.439 come back for fuller, Like we could have had so 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:34.200 many backstories with Derek and Teddy and all of them. 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.119 It would have been so great to see where it 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:36.520 would have. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.399 Been fun to see. Yeah, where are they now of 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:39.200 that great. 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.960 Chi That's what We'll just do the spinoff with Michelle, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.439 and we'll just do the spinoff of Michelle's Friends. 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.240 It'll be in the same in the same universe. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.920 Full of Michelle's friends without Michelle, full of Michelle's right 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:53.760 apartment next door, full of Michelle's friends. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:59.000 Right single camera, very gritty Francis. Yeah, yeah, totally different. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:06.200 Yeah, it's like referent Yeah. Now, you were nine when 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:09.040 you did The Little Rascals, and actually Mary Kate were 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:09.760 also in. 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:11.919 The Little Rascals, So what was that like when you guys. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.760 Got to all work together on a movie which is 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:14.760 such a different vibe. 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.119 That was the biggest blessing that they said yes to 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.440 that cameo, because that was one of the reasons why 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.199 I was allowed to do the movie, because I was 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.040 under contract with full House. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.240 But they would let them go to do it yes. 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.040 And they absolutely could have refused, like but by the 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.359 way the contract went, they could have said absolutely not 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.000 when I got cast in Little Rascals, but they had 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.760 offered this cameo for the slumber party scene with Darla 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.719 to Mary Kate Nashley. And because they said yes, they 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.440 were like, oh, well, this is just great for the show. 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.639