The star of “Full House” Jodie Sweetin opens up about his and the rest of the cast’s position with the twins Marie-Kate And Ashley Olsen. While appearing on a recent episode of “Comics and Kicks,” Sweetin said she and the Olsens were doing well despite rumors that the 40-year-olds were in a bad way with the majority of the cast. According to Sweetin, these claims are unfounded, and she confirmed that the couple spent several days together in 2022, when actor Bob Saget died.
Where are Jodie Sweetin and the cast of “Full House” with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen?
“Everyone is on good terms with them, but they were 8 when the show left off,” Sweetin said of her and the rest of the actors’ relationship with the twins. “Then they made all these movies and stuff that they really loved doing all the time, I don’t know.”
Don’t forget that Mary-Kate and Ashley shared the role of Michelle Tanner on the ’80s sitcom “Full House.” After that, the couple starred in several films, including “Passport to Paris”, “Our Lips Are Sealed”, “It Takes Two” and “Double Double”.
The sisters left the entertainment industry in the early 2000s to begin creating their fashion brands, “The Row” and “Elizabeth and James.” According to Sweetin, both men left the acting world because it wasn’t “what they loved.”
Jodie Sweetin says Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have a ‘different relationship’ with the theater industry
Later in the podcast interview, Sweetin spoke about the twins’ relationship with the acting industry, stating that they didn’t like being on the set of the show.
“They have a different relationship with being on set all the time,” she said. “Like, they might not remember being 2 years old and carrying us all around and doing that kind of thing, but I do, you know, and I think that’s not their thing.”
Sweetin shared even more about his beliefs behind Mary-Kate and Ashley’s choice to leave the industry after their last film, “New York Minute.”
“Their empire has exploded and they don’t want the attention, and I understand. They owned so much stuff and were so overrun and for public consumption. I completely understand why they don’t want to do that,” she said.
Jodie Sweetin Tells Mary-Kate and Ashley Joke in ‘Fuller House’ Reboot
While “Full House” ended in 1995, the majority of the cast reunited for the Netflix reboot “Fuller House” in 2016. Mary-Kate and Ashley, however, chose not to join, prompting the cast to address their absence in the first episode.
“Basically, it’s the first episode of Fuller House and the whole family is back. We’re in the kitchen and we’re talking about all being together again,” Sweetin said on the podcast. “And then we say something like, ‘Well, if only Michelle were here, or if Michelle ran her fashion empire in New York.’ And then all of us were looking at the camera going, “Uh-huh.”
The on-screen joke, however, was not meant to be an insult to the twins; it was meant to be a light-hearted joke about their absence.
“You have to fix it,” Sweetin said. “You can’t not say anything.”
Some cast members were angry because the twins didn’t return to reprise their roles
In a previous episode of the “And That’s What You REALLY Missed” podcast, actor John Stamos, who played Uncle Jesse on “Full House,” admitted he was “angry” that the twins decided not to participate in the reboot.
“When I did Fuller House, they didn’t want to come back. And I was angry for a minute,” he said. However, his feelings subsided and he said the entire cast reunited with them in 2022, when Saget died.
“…they said, ‘We loved our childhood. We loved being with you. We miss Bob.’ They came to my house. They brought a pork chop and sage. I don’t know why, but thank you? It was a frozen pork chop, so it was really nice. So we stayed very close,” Stamos said.
Sweetin recalled that things were “as before” when they reunited after Saget’s death
Sweetin shared a similar statement on “Comics and Kicks,” revealing that when the cast reunited with Mary-Kate and Ashley, things were “business as usual.”
She added: “It was normal. You know, we all spent like four days together constantly… and it was like nothing had changed.”