April 11, 2024 • 36 mins
Jodie & Andrea sit with Aunt Becky herself - Lori Loughlin - for an emotional reunion and behind the scenes look at an acting gig that ended up helping define all of their lives.
How did Lori turn a small guest starring role into a multi-season iconic character? What were her first impressions of the cast? And how did her recent appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm happen?
We learn so much in this touching episode of How Rude, Tanneritos!
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hey, fan Ritos, Welcome to how Rude Tanner Ritos. We
are so excited to announce today's interview. We were so
relieved when her character first appeared in season two to
tame Uncle Jesse the Womanizer. She was a much needed
presence both on and off stage, and the fans have
been eagerly waiting for this conversation with the beloved aunt Becky.
(00:39):
We cannot wait to catch up with our sweet and
beautiful friend, Laurie Lachlan.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Hy Lourie, I haven't talked to you guys in a while.
How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Great?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
When was the last time we saw each other? Was
it John's fifty?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It was John sixty?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah sixty aging him? Yeah, John's sixtieth. Okay, that was
a fun part where.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We were all dressed, where we were all dressed in
the sixties attire.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, well that LORI did you? I don't think. I
don't think Lauri dressed up.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I don't think Laurie did, because there's no way most did.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Whenever I tell him Moss costume, He's like, no, I'm
not no costume.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well was the same way He's like, costume, I'm not
going yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, so no, I don't think we did dress up.
I think we just we went. It was fun nice, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh it was. It was very fun. Had a good time. Dave,
it was I think you, me Andrea, Dave was Scott there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Scott was there, Yep, Scott was there.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I think Canvas was working. Yeah, but I think I
think it was everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, the gang was there. Yeah. Yeah. How are your
How are your kids? How's everyone's kids doing? How are
the kiddies good? Your girls are?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Zoe is turning sixteen?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, eight days, my goodness. My recommendation is get her
a driving instructor.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Do not try to Oh yeah, yeah yeah she I
signed up through Triple A. I mean, I actually am
pretty calm though. Like I'm in We're driving around the
neighborhood the other day and I posted a little picture
of it. And it was weird because I'm sitting in
the car and I like posted a picture and I'm like,
you know, she's practicing her stops and goes in a
neighborhood and I all of a sudden this moment and
I was like, this feels weirdly normal, and that's weird.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Like it was the fact that it felt normal. Was weird,
but yeah, she and then b is going to high
school next year.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It just it's yeah, goodh crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And how's your gang doing, Andrea, They're good, They're great.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, Felicity's turning seventeen next week. The girls have almost
the same birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So she's been driving for a few months now. She
already had her first accident, so that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Was very stressful. Yeah, it was just a little fender bender.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It wasn't a major accident, and it was just like,
you know, thank goodness. But yeah, she so now she
doesn't want to drive anymore because she's nervous, and I'm like,
I get back up on that horse. You gotta just yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, exposure therapy.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just do it right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
She could do what I did where I got my
first speeding ticket and backed into someone all in a
span of twenty minutes for the first time.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Just give it, do it all, you know what I mean,
get it all over.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Did you back into the cop I.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Know, faithfully, I think that would have been.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
That would have been probably I probably still wouldn't be driving,
but no, I was. I got the speeding ticket and
then I was so flustered on my way to the
bank that I would get in the bank and as
I'm backing out, I.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Just don't look that through.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I bowled that way the days before backup cameras, and
I back into some ladies car and I just burst
into tears.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I was like seventeen.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It was my first like week at college, and I
was just like, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I know it's stressful, it's stressful. I think my first
my first accident was when I was I was a teenager.
My first accident was a low pole at the gas station.
So thankfully nobody else was involved, but I backed up
and I just didn't It was low, I couldn't see it,
and I just took out like the backside of my car.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh I did. I did that one parking, but only
a few months later. Really actually after the ticket.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
And the other backup, isn't it. I also backed into
a pool. All of my incidents have really been in reverse.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But yeah, back and then took off because I was like,
I don't know what's just happening.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Just for backup cameras. You really needed the backup cameras
in the in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Even with that, I'm it's still a panic anyway, Yeah,
enough of my terrible driving.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
How's your family, Laurie good? Everybody? Goods are great. The
girls are doing really well. Bella is trying her hand
at acting, although it's a tough time to be an actor.
Not a lot of work happening right now.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, breach.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And she also she also started this really cool little company.
She took up knitting and she really likes it. She's
quite good at it. So she started this company and
it's called the Bitch Knits. Cool. And the name came
about because Olivia was teasing her and said, oh, and
she was sitting and knitting. She's like, ah, the Bitch Knits,
(05:13):
and I was like, that have a funny name for
a company. And so she's been Yeah, so she's been
home like a grandma, like knitting and then selling it. Yeah,
so she's doing well. She's doing that. And then Livi's
is doing her YouTube channel still and awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah I did show a while back. It was great.
It was really fun.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, we've been talking a lot about these early seasons
of Full House.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We're in season two.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, ok, in season.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Two, so Becky has arrived and so thank god, thank god,
you came on the show.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I came on what second was I second episode? Second season?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Second episode, second season? Yeah, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Were relieved because Jesse's just been this man horror for
that entire first season.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I gotta tell you, man, women watching in front of
the children have been watching these first season and episodes
and we're just like.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Family Becky getting well, where's family show? What is he doing?
But also we're like, when does Becky get here?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And what does uncle Jesse become not a not an
idiot like we did, Like what does it become like
less of of his dad and more of like an actual,
like decent, non misogynistic him in and uh it's around
when you arrived.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Thank good, So thanks for that. Yeah really, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Just he would make out with people in the living
room in front of everybody. Tell me it's nobody had boundaries, no,
not a launderies?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How is that for you? Guys? When you were little,
like on those episodes watching all that, or did you
like it was it? Did you like what? It was?
Just normal?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Like whatever?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I mean, if you've ever done I mean we were kids,
so we hadn't, but like, if you've ever done a
screen kiss, or been around a screen kiss you know,
it is probably the least passionate, Oh yeah, exciting thing
to witness. It's so awkward, and so I think, like
you just kind.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Of get the vibes as a kid, You're like, this
is this is weird.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I'm probably also judging, like why am I here while
they're doing this?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Because you're five.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I have to bring up this story. I'm jumping ahead,
but I have Speaking of screen kisses, I have to
bring this up because Laura, I've been wanting to ask
you this forever. Do you remember when this is probably
season seven, when DJ and Steve broke up on a
mountain and I had to have a screen kiss with
whoever was my boyfriend at the time, and he was
this like.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Weird weird kid, like super weird.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I was not.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I didn't want to kiss him in rehearsal. I didn't
even really want to kiss him during when the cameras
were rolling. But anyways, I remember you, like everyone was
very supportive on the set, and I remember you went
to the guy and you were like, if you slipper
the tongue, you're gonna have to answer.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
To me, dokie.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Do you remember saying this to this guy.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He was so because I think I remember you were
so nervous and you were worried. Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I was unhinged. I was so worried.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So that sounds totally like something that. Yeah, that I
that I would do for sure. I always was always
so protective of all of you guys, you know. And
I remember when Can just had her first kiss on
screen and I don't even know, maybe that was her
first kiss in life, and I think.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
So, yeah, most of us we were like, yeah, it was,
it was the same, but it was yeah, I don't
count it though.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No you can't.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You can't sing your grandma.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah. And she came to me and she said, do
I keep my eyes open or closed? Do? We had
like a little conversation about that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
So, but I like to keep my eyes open just
to make it weird, make it weird and intimidate people.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, just open their eyes suddenly you're staring
at them.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It was so great to have a female presence on
the set, you know, with John, Bob and Dave fool
it around all the time, like thank god you were there.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, you know, it's so funny when when I came on.
I was only supposed to do six episodes, that was
what I was contracted for, but I knew when I
got there, I just felt like I belonged there. And
I remember the show was hadn't really hit its stride yet.
And I remember I called my mother and I said,
(09:33):
you know, I'm only supposed to be here for six episodes,
but I have a feeling if this show makes it
and it goes the distance, I'm going to be on
it for the duration. Like I just had this weird
feeling because I just felt like I was like this
missing link to the puzzle, like this missing piece. And
I remember the first speaking of the guys the first
week that I was the first episode I shot. At
(09:56):
the end of the week, my stomach, like Saturday morning,
I woke up and I might stomach hurt, like it
really hurt, like I had done a thousand, you know,
sit ups, and I realized it was laughing. I realized
like I had laughed so hard that week that I
used muscles in my stomach I'd never used before. I mean,
that's how funny, That's how funny those guys were. I
mean they were wildly you know, inappropriate and politically and
(10:21):
correct in all the best ways possible. Like they were
so funny. I think about this stuff, especially in the
morning when you guys were in school.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I was gonna say, see you you got the full experience.
We got them the kid you got them yeah, oh
oh boy, did you no? But we were, you know,
sort of off being still having like kid time. But
you were there and got to be in in it
with the guys when.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
They were just off the rails, and it was so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It was wild. They were so funny, nothing was off limits.
Anything came out of their mouth like you I couldn't
even repeat. I often used to think, it's too bad
somebody isn't red these rehearsals because they were so funny.
Although who knows, maybe we'd show them now. We'd get
canceled in thirty seconds, like you know what I mean,
Like it's just right.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It might have been better for everyone if they weren't,
you know exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Times are so different now. But we had so much fun.
We had so many laughs, and those guys were just
off the chain. And then everyone would be like, kids
are coming on the set, kids are coming on the set.
Is rehrs, like guys like you gotta calm down, you
gotta settle down.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, but of course Bob, you know Bob, and Bob
to settled down was not that was.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Like the opposite, like he would do the opposite game,
like Okay, I'm gonna really go off the rails, and
then we would all get in trouble and we would
have to stay like basically after school, after you guys
were left for the day and we had to go
into the notes meeting. But a lot of times it
was we had to stay after because we had to
be reprimanded for Bob's bad behavior. And I would always
(11:56):
be sitting there going like why am I here?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I thought into this.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Collateral, but Jeff frank Jeff Franklin didn't want to like
single any of us out, so it was kind of
general like okay, elective punishment, yeah, exactly when the kids
are here and I'm like, oh man, and then we
just go and the next day would be the same
thing and.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Be the same thing.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
There was no making do it all over again. Now.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You talked about only being there for the first for
six episodes. When you first came on, originally you were
just going to be Danny's co host and and like
go on one date with him or something. That was
what I heard, like go on a date with him,
realize it wasn't going to work out, and then you
guys just work together, but you there was no like.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But somewhere, but somewhere in the casting process, they must
have thought of John and I being together there because
I had to when I went into audition and I
came back and I had the audition for Tom Miller
and Bob Boyette, I had to do a chemistry read
with John, not I never met Bob till I actually
(13:15):
got on the show. So somewhere in there they were
thinking about John and I together. So yeah, at some point,
but I think.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that was like the initial
thing was how to bring you in, and then they
were like, wait, we think she's much better with Jesse
or maybe they maybe everyone was just like we need
to do something about this Jesse character.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
He needs some help.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But they were like her, Yeah, but I was supposed
to come on and be Bob's co host, and I
think there was like a little bit of talk like
maybe we went on a date that then that never
came to fruition. It just became I came on because
the first episode I remember was when John walks in
the house and and I say, oh, you must be
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Danny's brother in law Jesse. And he's like, oh, like
what did he say about me? And I know he's
that he had a brother in law named Jesse like that.
Like that was like the very like so there was
like a they are like out of the gate. They
wrote like a little kind of.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
We loved those moments though, By the way, those are
some of our favorite Becky moments that we've seen because
we're like, yes, put him in his place, that's him,
thank you, thank you, Like no, we're not talking about you.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's not all about you, sir. Like you just happen
to be here, you know what.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I mean, Like he just I'm like, go off, Becky.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, but it was it was fun and that show
was such a blessing. You know. I have such gratitude
for all the years that I was on that show
and all the family that we became and the good
times and in you know, you'd have to pinch yourself
and say, I'm getting paid to come here, like it
was just it was amazing. It was just amazing. And
(14:48):
I don't know, I mean, I have other friends that
have worked on television series for you know, quite some time.
I just don't know of any cast that came together
like our cast, did, you know. It's just the chemistry,
the formula was so perfect, and there was such true love,
you know, that we all had for one another, you know.
And I wonder sometimes is the fact that you guys
(15:10):
were so little that it because there were little kids involved,
it really felt like a family, you know, and we
as adults and we weren't that old ourselves. We were
in our twenties, but we were like just so protective
of you guys, and you know, it was just it
was just an all around wonderful experience.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It was you know, we always say it too like
it you guys were still young and in your twenties,
but you guys were all family people like you all
were warm, loving, carrying people in your real life, and
so it was like this combination of people that were
all you know that when there were the kids were there,
(15:50):
of course, it just you naturally gravitated towards caretaking instead
of being like, oh kids, know, there was not anybody
in the cast that was like I hate kids.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know, everybody loved everyone.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yea, everybody loved kids, either wanted them, eventually had them,
or like you know, it just was a real family environment.
And that's not always the case in a group of actors.
There's oftentimes people were like, that's not family life avor me,
And that was definitely not our cast.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And I think also because the kids had.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Such prominent storylines, like the adults and the kids really
interacted a lot more.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah, on our show, It's true. And you guys
were all I was always amazed at how talented all
of you, You and Candice and Andrea, Like, you guys
were just so so funny, so spot on. You could
bring the comedy, you could bring the heartfelt moments, like
it was impressive to watch truly, you know, it was
such a joy to watch you guys, to work with
(16:50):
you guys, you know, it was just it was wonderful.
You guys were great, still are. And then when you
came back and did Fuller House, it was amazing, just
amazing all of you, your comedy chops, everything right there,
falling right back into line.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It was really fun.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Thanks Lori, Oh my god, I love you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We'll pay you later. Okayay, yeah, yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah,
rks for that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'll give you my good mother.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I would love to hear, though, how you got started
in the business. I mean, one of the things that
we've been having fun doing on the show is asking
all the questions that we didn't know the answers to
because we were kids, or that, you know, things we
didn't get to know about all of the people on
our show. And I know you were fifteen when you've
got your first role.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I was fifteen when I got a part on a
soap opera. But how I started in the industry was
I was eleven years old and I started out modeling,
and it was and nobody in my family was in
the entertainment industry. My father worked for the New York
Telephone Company and my mother was a housewife. But when
I was a kid, I was I always said I
(17:52):
wanted to be an actress. And I think it was
one of those things like, oh, you want to be
an astronaut, you want to be whatever, you know, like biology, Yeah,
you know, you're going to be an actress whatever. And
then she had a friend that was taking her girls
in and I grew up in New York. I was
on Long Island, about an hour outside New York City,
and my mother's good friends and I'm taking my daughters
(18:12):
into a modeling agency they had, like at that time,
it was just an open call. You brought some snapshots
in to see if you were photogenic. And she said,
I know, Laurie's always asking you if you know she
wants to be an actress, and can I you know,
do you want to go with us? Like, let's go
and meet this agent. So my mom was like, well, okay,
and so we went and the modeling agent. The woman,
(18:34):
her name was Marge McDermott. She owned her own agency,
and she took me on the spot. She looked at
my photos and she said she said to the other
my mom's good friend's daughter, She's like, no, you're I'm
not going to take you guys. I don't know if
they were kind of a little bit older or whatever,
but I was the youngest one. And she said, but
I'll take you and handed my mom like a contract.
(18:54):
We walked out and my mom I think my mom
was because I think my mom thought, oh, I'll shut
her up, like she'll go in they won't take her.
That'll be the end of that, you know, she'll be done.
And then and then my parents were really cool. They
said like, look, if you want. My dad happened to
work in New York City, so it worked out well.
My mom would pick me up after school. We'd go
on you know, go sees and you know, modeling go
(19:16):
Sees and my dad would beat us and then we
would drive home together. But it was like a family
effort out of the gate. And then when I was
and then as I was like rolling along, and then
I got a commercial agent. Then I started doing some commercials,
although it was never very lucky in commercials. I did some,
but I didn't book a ton of commercials. And then
when I was fifteen, my manager sent me in on
(19:40):
an audition for a soap opera called The Edge of Night.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And remember that show.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, And I think I had done one other small
part in a TV movie with Blife Dianner and Michael
Moriarty for NBC. It was a very small part, and
I was studying a little bit of acting here and
there with this lady. Her name is Sylvia Lee you'
and she was very theatrical. She talked like this, darling anyway,
(20:06):
That's what I study with her, but then I got
sent on this this soap audition, and I remember my
manager said, look, they really want someone who's eighteen years old.
You're you're a little young. I was like two months
shy of turning sixteen. She goes, but I'm going to
send you in anyway. Meet the casting director. Just you know,
(20:28):
don't tell him you're fifteen, say like you're seventeen or whatever.
I'm like, okay. Meanwhile, I look like I'm twelve because
I was just like, I don't want to like those right.
So I go in and I meet the casting director
and I'm just sitting there chatting, and when she says
to me, how old are you? I go fifteen? And
then I'm like I wasn't just to say that, like
saying I'm seventeen. You know, you know actors on your resume,
(20:50):
can your parachute out of a plane? Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, I done it off and did it last weekend.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And then so she goes, oh, you know what, you're
really too young for this role. But you know, I
enjoyed meeting you. And I said okay, and I get
up to leave her office and she goes, oh, wait
a minute, come back, come back, read the sides for me,
just reading there, you know. So I read the sides
for her, and she goes, you know, you're too young,
but I like you, so I'm going to bring you
back for the producers. And at the time, Procter and Gamble.
(21:20):
That's why they were called soaks, right, because they were
sponsored by companies that made companies schwashing detergent, launder detergent.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And targeted towards housewives exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And so I went in and I read for all
the people at Procter and Gamble and the people at ABC,
and she brought and I'll never forget they When I
got into the audition, they had like a lot of
girls there and they all were looked much older than me.
They were older than me. And they had some guys
that were casting a male role too, and they paired
us up with you know, the guy, and we had
to go in an audition together. And I will never
(21:51):
forget this. I don't know his last name. All I
know is his first name was Todd. The actor I
was paired up with. And literally before as the casting
walking us to the audition room, as she's putting her
hand on the doorknob. He turns around and he says
to me, you know, every time I audition with a
girl for a soap opera, she gets the role and
I don't. And literally we walk in the room, we
(22:14):
do the audition. Two hours later, I get a call.
I got the part. I have no idea what happened
to Todd. Oh no, that funny, but I'll never forget that.
And so then thanks Todd, I know man.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And then he charmed Todd, I mean, not for himself,
but exactly for everyone else.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He was so sweet. I can still see his face
and I don't remember his last name. I don't know
if he's still in the business, but that's exactly what
he said to me. And then I got that part.
And I was on that show for three and a
half years, and it was wonderful because I really was green.
I didn't know what I was doing, and at the time,
I was supposed to be playing this ballet dancer. And
(22:55):
they never they didn't make you audition and dance. They
just said, oh, do you have any dance training? So
you know, of course to collective, Oh sure I can dance,
you know, I'm like, yeah, sure, don't worry, and when
I got to work the first day, I barely knew
how to act. I get to an actual dance studio
set with a choreographer, and I was like, oh man,
I'm in way over my head, like and then I
(23:16):
finally had to go to the producers and be like, look,
I didn't realize when you asked for dancing that it
was like full choreography and you know, and in hindsight,
I'm like, it was going to be a snippet of
ten seconds. But I was so rattled because I couldn't
even I didn't even know how to act, that they
were like, Okay, honey, don't worry about it. So in
(23:36):
the world of soap opera, I was the hopeful ballerina
but I really couldn't dance, but nobody tell her she
didn't have talent. Like that's how they kind of ow
my story. And then I became it was a mystery soap,
and then I became like the little Nancy Drew of
the of daytime television, and I was on that. I
(23:57):
was on that show three and a half years and
I was kidnapped seven and tie. Wow, that sounds about right.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, that's like the luck of like a war reporter
or something that's yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And then well, Andrew, I'm so when you were little.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I did Days of our Lives, so I was I was, yeah,
what was I? I think I was kidnapped once brainwashed?
Maybe uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Did you die and come back to life? That's always almost.
Did you have an evil twin?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I knew I was an.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Evil twin that killed you and then and then took
over your life and pretended to be you, and then
you came back to life and killed them.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, but that's how I started. And then it was
great training because I worked with all these wonderful theater actors.
Every one of those actors, I think they all had
a show on Broadway or off Broadway. We'd leave the studio,
I would go home. I would continue Like the child
labor laws were different in New York, so I had
to go to school at night. I had to provide
to find my own tutors. It was like a whole.
(24:53):
But they would all go to the theater. But they
were wonderful because they all like kind of took me
and they all studied it, you know, different, you know whatever.
They at Strausburg and my friend Joel went to Harvard,
and but they all would take me and sort of
help me out and teach me. And so I felt
like even though I was I had to be ready
(25:14):
and be prepared, and I was going live every day
on television or not live, you know, you like tape whatever.
We'd tape them. They would exactly, we would tape it
and then it would air like a couple days later.
But they shot it like it was a live show,
which was interesting because they I'm sure they did you
do block tape, Andrea, is that how you guys did it?
(25:35):
Like you'd shoot that one scene and then you or
you'd finish everything in that set. We would do everything live,
like go from set to set, and they type in
the soap opera music as well. It's kind of it
was maybe they kept it. Yeah, they kept it running
like it was a live TV show because it started
out as a live TV show, started out on radio,
then it moved to tele live television, and they shot
(25:56):
it was like a live TV show. So we knew
every day we'd be out by four o'clock because we
shoot that show like it was live.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
But I was like working with all these wonderful actors.
Who took the time to teach me and take me
under their wing. And and that was my first big break.
And that's how I met John. That's how I met
Samos because he was doing General Hospital. We were both
on ABC and he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy
and I was the presenter that year of that award,
(26:24):
and that's how that's how I met him. Oh my gosh,
I didn't know that. Yeah, and that's how we first met.
And did he win or no? He didn't know. Darnell
Williams from All My only Todd was there. If only
Todd had been there to listen till this stay stays,
Why couldn't you just say my name? Well, of course
(26:47):
he did. But lovely Darnell Williams one. He was great.
He was on All My Children. Okay, okay, so okay. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I feel like soaps are also great training because you
you are it's every day, it's it's a news every day,
and it's like it really hones in your memorization skills
ability to just kind of go with whatever is happening,
especially if you're shooting live.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
To tape like it's a live show.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You're like, all right, well that fell off the wall
and we're just gonna keep going.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That's it. And they would do that if you could. Ye.
I worked with this actor who would go up on
his lines quite frequently, and I could always tell when
he was going to go up because his eyes would
kind of start to shake in his sockets, Like I
could tell he start to panic because he was like
going to forget his lines. So I would memorize my
lines and his lines and if I could pick it
(27:36):
up or feed him a que I would do it
and they would keep going. They would let it, they
would let it go.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I mean, it's like theaters.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, if you can save each whatever, as long as
we get through it.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Exactly, That's exactly what it was like. But it was
great training in that in that regard, because you're on
the spot, you had to do it, you had to
figure it out, you know, it was something, and then
you could watch it back, which was also you know,
very valuable.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
So oh I love that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, it's like it's like boot camp for actors.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, seriously, Yeah, it is exactly what it's like.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I had no idea that you and John had met previously.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh yeah, we had.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
We were friends, Like I mean I knew you were
both on on soap operas at the same time, but
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We met and we kept in touch for a little while,
and I think I was maybe like seventeen, he was eighteen.
He's a year older than me, like seventeen, eighteen years
old when we met babies and we stayed touch. But
he lived in California. I remember I came out. Oh
here's a trivia question for you guys. So I came
out to California and I was in touch with John
(28:45):
and he invited me to go where with him?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Disneyland?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Where you go?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Shocker?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
So we went to disney Land. His friends do you
remember Jimmy, Joe and those guys Papa do run run anyway?
To go see Al.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I was at his wedding. My family became really close
with Alan, his family through John.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Yeah. So anyway, we
went to see the band, We went on stage Disneyland,
and we kind of stayed in touch. And then he
came to New York with a bunch of his friends
and I had my girlfriends with me and we went
out one night in New York City. But we didn't,
you know, there was. It was not the time of
cell phones. It was not the time of texting. You
had to pick up the phone and call each other.
And so then we sort of just drifted apart. And
(29:29):
then the role on Full House came along, and I
guess I was about twenty three, so you know, maybe
four or five years later. And when I got the
call to audition, they said, oh this. We had the
same agent and my agent said, oh, my other client,
John SteamOS, And I'm like, oh, I know John SteamOS
and he's like, yeah, he's doing this show. And I'm
like okay, great. And I was flat broke when I
(29:51):
got the audition for Fullhouse. I had paid my rent
and I had there had been like a strike. I
hadn't worked for over a year. Remember I paid my rent.
I walked into my agent's office and I was like,
I need a job, like I'm I'm broke, like I
And he said, oh, I just got this call. There's
an audition. They were interested in seeing you. It's just
six episodes for this show. And that's when he said
(30:12):
my client, John Stamos. I'm like I know John. He's like, yeah,
is this this is his show? New show? Or would
you want to go in an audition for these six episodes,
and I'm like, I will audition for anything, like anything, right,
So that's how I ended up there, and then it
was such a blessing because I stayed for seven years. Wow.
So you guys never dated?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You and John, Like, I feel like there's rumors that
you guys dated.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Before Full House, but that's not true because we were
I think because we were friends, and I think, you know,
like you know, when we were first hanging out, maybe
if we had lived on the same coast, maybe something
like we just we was like we kind of had
these little hangout things and then.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
You know, we're young and cute, and you know, I
like to.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Tell some crazy story about you made out on the
matter horn and I'm like what, But I think it's
just that's just for me in his own history, or
he's just he's.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Just old now. I'm just skidding.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
He's just funny, but he's Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
It's so crazy though to think about that, Like you
and John had met previously, Bob and Dave were friends previously,
but like there, I mean, it's sort of also the
nature of this business, right, is that if you're in
it for a little while everyone sort of knows each other,
but the way that all of us did, or that
the adults on the show had connected previously, was not
(31:28):
It was sort of happenstance and like not uh intentional,
you know what I mean, It wasn't planned. Everyone was
like Dave was in Detroit and Bob was on tour
and that you know how everything sort of came together
and then it was like we all like came back
and there was just a level of like commonality already there.
It was like all of our little stars had already
(31:50):
sort of intertwined.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You know, Dave was stayed on Bob's couch. I mean,
they really did have that same relationship as Danny and
and Joey and they.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Were seventeen eighteen when they met, and seineteen eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You and John eighteen seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
I mean, it's funny all of us, from the adults
to the kids, have known each other almost our whole lives.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, gosh, Judy, I mean I think about you guys.
What you were five when I met you? I mean yeah, five, Mary,
Kate and Ashley were what were they nine months? Ten months? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Nine months? The first season, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So when I came along, so they were a little
bit older, but still but they really really talking yet.
And what you and Candae Andrew were you ten when.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I met you.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We were ten years old when we started the show,
So yeah, ten. I mean, we've known you about their lives.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I know, it's crazy, but it's lovely. It's just so yeah,
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It's generations.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean, you know, you guys have the adults the
legacy has known each other since they were teenagers.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
We've known each other our whole lives, like what, yeah,
and our kids have now, you know. I mean it's
I know, you know, I mean to.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Think that, like our kids are now almost as old
as you guys were when you all sort of randomly
met out there.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeahs blowing, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, I can't imagine my life without you guys, Like
I just can't even right sure, I know, before you
guys or without you, No, it's.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
No, I don't really remember anything without you guys in
my life.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Isn't that funny? Which would make sense because you were fine.
It's true, how many memories you really have before you're five.
That's sort of like when you start like holding onto
your memories five, six, seven years old.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yeah, and all of them, I mean all of them,
have you guys in them. You know, when I think
of holidays, I think of like being at home, but
I also think of our Christmas parties or like getting
gifts for everyone on set or do you know, like
everything that we grew up with was just so tied
into this show. Are we doing outros or do we
(34:04):
need to?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
We should we?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I should probably just roll into it instead of announcing it,
you know, like I don't know, leave this in right.
I don't know, I'm just I just wanted to clarify,
make sure I didn't like, you know, well, some time
doing an outro and you were like, wait, what are
we doing?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Well, sometimes we're like are we still recording?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Are we not?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I don't know, Like let's just tap.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Just just roll it right, just push record and who
knows what happens? Anything, well, anything goes, And if you've
been listening to this podcast, you know that anything goes.
And we are just the pinnacle of organization and professionalism here.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Uh and you all love LRI just as much as
we do. So we didn't want to skimp out on
any questions for this interview.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We will be releasing Part two with LORII this Friday,
so make sure and stay tuned for a chance to
hear even more from Aunt Becky herself. If you want
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the show.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Thank you so much, Ab for being here. You're amazing.
I just wanted to say it.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, what a rare and lovely moment of expression.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Of your heart. You do have a heart. I do
have a big heart. I have a big heart and
lots of feelings. I just hide them under a way
you do because it's scary. You do. I love you
well and I appreciate you every day.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I love you and I appreciate you too. Now let's
see if I can now don't appreciation right? Hold on,
get your bracelet.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
My bracelet.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I got it, but I got to make sure I
start at the right the Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Okay, the world is small, but the house is full
effortless thanks to the brace that.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah, I don't know about effortless but minimal. Cheers, cheers
Speaker 4 (36:11):
H
Hey, fan Ritos, Welcome to how Rude Tanner Ritos. We
are so excited to announce today's interview. We were so
relieved when her character first appeared in season two to
tame Uncle Jesse the Womanizer. She was a much needed
presence both on and off stage, and the fans have
been eagerly waiting for this conversation with the beloved aunt Becky.
(00:39):
We cannot wait to catch up with our sweet and
beautiful friend, Laurie Lachlan.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Hy Lourie, I haven't talked to you guys in a while.
How are you guys?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Doing good?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Good?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Great?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Now?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
When was the last time we saw each other? Was
it John's fifty?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
It was John sixty?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah sixty aging him? Yeah, John's sixtieth. Okay, that was
a fun part where.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
We were all dressed, where we were all dressed in
the sixties attire.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, well that LORI did you? I don't think. I
don't think Lauri dressed up.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
I don't think Laurie did, because there's no way most did.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Whenever I tell him Moss costume, He's like, no, I'm
not no costume.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Well was the same way He's like, costume, I'm not
going yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, so no, I don't think we did dress up.
I think we just we went. It was fun nice, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Oh it was. It was very fun. Had a good time. Dave,
it was I think you, me Andrea, Dave was Scott there.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Scott was there, Yep, Scott was there.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I think Canvas was working. Yeah, but I think I
think it was everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, the gang was there. Yeah. Yeah. How are your
How are your kids? How's everyone's kids doing? How are
the kiddies good? Your girls are?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Zoe is turning sixteen?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, eight days, my goodness. My recommendation is get her
a driving instructor.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Do not try to Oh yeah, yeah yeah she I
signed up through Triple A. I mean, I actually am
pretty calm though. Like I'm in We're driving around the
neighborhood the other day and I posted a little picture
of it. And it was weird because I'm sitting in
the car and I like posted a picture and I'm like,
you know, she's practicing her stops and goes in a
neighborhood and I all of a sudden this moment and
I was like, this feels weirdly normal, and that's weird.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Like it was the fact that it felt normal. Was weird,
but yeah, she and then b is going to high
school next year.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It just it's yeah, goodh crazy.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And how's your gang doing, Andrea, They're good, They're great.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, Felicity's turning seventeen next week. The girls have almost
the same birthday.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
So she's been driving for a few months now. She
already had her first accident, so that.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Was very stressful. Yeah, it was just a little fender bender.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It wasn't a major accident, and it was just like,
you know, thank goodness. But yeah, she so now she
doesn't want to drive anymore because she's nervous, and I'm like,
I get back up on that horse. You gotta just yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, exposure therapy.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just do it right.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
She could do what I did where I got my
first speeding ticket and backed into someone all in a
span of twenty minutes for the first time.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Just give it, do it all, you know what I mean,
get it all over.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Did you back into the cop I.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Know, faithfully, I think that would have been.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
That would have been probably I probably still wouldn't be driving,
but no, I was. I got the speeding ticket and
then I was so flustered on my way to the
bank that I would get in the bank and as
I'm backing out, I.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Just don't look that through.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I bowled that way the days before backup cameras, and
I back into some ladies car and I just burst
into tears.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I was like seventeen.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It was my first like week at college, and I
was just like, I can't do it.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I know it's stressful, it's stressful. I think my first
my first accident was when I was I was a teenager.
My first accident was a low pole at the gas station.
So thankfully nobody else was involved, but I backed up
and I just didn't It was low, I couldn't see it,
and I just took out like the backside of my car.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh I did. I did that one parking, but only
a few months later. Really actually after the ticket.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
And the other backup, isn't it. I also backed into
a pool. All of my incidents have really been in reverse.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
But yeah, back and then took off because I was like,
I don't know what's just happening.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Just for backup cameras. You really needed the backup cameras
in the in the nineties.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Even with that, I'm it's still a panic anyway, Yeah,
enough of my terrible driving.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
How's your family, Laurie good? Everybody? Goods are great. The
girls are doing really well. Bella is trying her hand
at acting, although it's a tough time to be an actor.
Not a lot of work happening right now.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Yeah, breach.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
And she also she also started this really cool little company.
She took up knitting and she really likes it. She's
quite good at it. So she started this company and
it's called the Bitch Knits. Cool. And the name came
about because Olivia was teasing her and said, oh, and
she was sitting and knitting. She's like, ah, the Bitch Knits,
(05:13):
and I was like, that have a funny name for
a company. And so she's been Yeah, so she's been
home like a grandma, like knitting and then selling it. Yeah,
so she's doing well. She's doing that. And then Livi's
is doing her YouTube channel still and awesome. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah I did show a while back. It was great.
It was really fun.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, we've been talking a lot about these early seasons
of Full House.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
We're in season two.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, ok, in season.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Two, so Becky has arrived and so thank god, thank god,
you came on the show.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I came on what second was I second episode? Second season?
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Right?
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Second episode, second season? Yeah, and we.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Were relieved because Jesse's just been this man horror for
that entire first season.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I gotta tell you, man, women watching in front of
the children have been watching these first season and episodes
and we're just like.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Family Becky getting well, where's family show? What is he doing?
But also we're like, when does Becky get here?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And what does uncle Jesse become not a not an
idiot like we did, Like what does it become like
less of of his dad and more of like an actual,
like decent, non misogynistic him in and uh it's around
when you arrived.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Thank good, So thanks for that. Yeah really, oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Just he would make out with people in the living
room in front of everybody. Tell me it's nobody had boundaries, no,
not a launderies?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
How is that for you? Guys? When you were little,
like on those episodes watching all that, or did you
like it was it? Did you like what? It was?
Just normal?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Like whatever?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I mean, if you've ever done I mean we were kids,
so we hadn't, but like, if you've ever done a
screen kiss, or been around a screen kiss you know,
it is probably the least passionate, Oh yeah, exciting thing
to witness. It's so awkward, and so I think, like
you just kind.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Of get the vibes as a kid, You're like, this
is this is weird.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I'm probably also judging, like why am I here while
they're doing this?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Because you're five.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I have to bring up this story. I'm jumping ahead,
but I have Speaking of screen kisses, I have to
bring this up because Laura, I've been wanting to ask
you this forever. Do you remember when this is probably
season seven, when DJ and Steve broke up on a
mountain and I had to have a screen kiss with
whoever was my boyfriend at the time, and he was
this like.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Weird weird kid, like super weird.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I was not.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I didn't want to kiss him in rehearsal. I didn't
even really want to kiss him during when the cameras
were rolling. But anyways, I remember you, like everyone was
very supportive on the set, and I remember you went
to the guy and you were like, if you slipper
the tongue, you're gonna have to answer.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
To me, dokie.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Do you remember saying this to this guy.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
He was so because I think I remember you were
so nervous and you were worried. Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
I was unhinged. I was so worried.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So that sounds totally like something that. Yeah, that I
that I would do for sure. I always was always
so protective of all of you guys, you know. And
I remember when Can just had her first kiss on
screen and I don't even know, maybe that was her
first kiss in life, and I think.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
So, yeah, most of us we were like, yeah, it was,
it was the same, but it was yeah, I don't
count it though.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No you can't.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
You can't sing your grandma.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah. And she came to me and she said, do
I keep my eyes open or closed? Do? We had
like a little conversation about that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
So, but I like to keep my eyes open just
to make it weird, make it weird and intimidate people.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah yeah, yeah, just open their eyes suddenly you're staring
at them.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It was so great to have a female presence on
the set, you know, with John, Bob and Dave fool
it around all the time, like thank god you were there.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Well, you know, it's so funny when when I came on.
I was only supposed to do six episodes, that was
what I was contracted for, but I knew when I
got there, I just felt like I belonged there. And
I remember the show was hadn't really hit its stride yet.
And I remember I called my mother and I said,
(09:33):
you know, I'm only supposed to be here for six episodes,
but I have a feeling if this show makes it
and it goes the distance, I'm going to be on
it for the duration. Like I just had this weird
feeling because I just felt like I was like this
missing link to the puzzle, like this missing piece. And
I remember the first speaking of the guys the first
week that I was the first episode I shot. At
(09:56):
the end of the week, my stomach, like Saturday morning,
I woke up and I might stomach hurt, like it
really hurt, like I had done a thousand, you know,
sit ups, and I realized it was laughing. I realized
like I had laughed so hard that week that I
used muscles in my stomach I'd never used before. I mean,
that's how funny, That's how funny those guys were. I
mean they were wildly you know, inappropriate and politically and
(10:21):
correct in all the best ways possible. Like they were
so funny. I think about this stuff, especially in the
morning when you guys were in school.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I was gonna say, see you you got the full experience.
We got them the kid you got them yeah, oh
oh boy, did you no? But we were, you know,
sort of off being still having like kid time. But
you were there and got to be in in it
with the guys when.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
They were just off the rails, and it was so ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
It was wild. They were so funny, nothing was off limits.
Anything came out of their mouth like you I couldn't
even repeat. I often used to think, it's too bad
somebody isn't red these rehearsals because they were so funny.
Although who knows, maybe we'd show them now. We'd get
canceled in thirty seconds, like you know what I mean,
Like it's just right.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
It might have been better for everyone if they weren't,
you know exactly.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Times are so different now. But we had so much fun.
We had so many laughs, and those guys were just
off the chain. And then everyone would be like, kids
are coming on the set, kids are coming on the set.
Is rehrs, like guys like you gotta calm down, you
gotta settle down.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Yeah, but of course Bob, you know Bob, and Bob
to settled down was not that was.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Like the opposite, like he would do the opposite game,
like Okay, I'm gonna really go off the rails, and
then we would all get in trouble and we would
have to stay like basically after school, after you guys
were left for the day and we had to go
into the notes meeting. But a lot of times it
was we had to stay after because we had to
be reprimanded for Bob's bad behavior. And I would always
(11:56):
be sitting there going like why am I here?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I thought into this.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Collateral, but Jeff frank Jeff Franklin didn't want to like
single any of us out, so it was kind of
general like okay, elective punishment, yeah, exactly when the kids
are here and I'm like, oh man, and then we
just go and the next day would be the same
thing and.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
Be the same thing.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
There was no making do it all over again. Now.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
You talked about only being there for the first for
six episodes. When you first came on, originally you were
just going to be Danny's co host and and like
go on one date with him or something. That was
what I heard, like go on a date with him,
realize it wasn't going to work out, and then you
guys just work together, but you there was no like.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
But somewhere, but somewhere in the casting process, they must
have thought of John and I being together there because
I had to when I went into audition and I
came back and I had the audition for Tom Miller
and Bob Boyette, I had to do a chemistry read
with John, not I never met Bob till I actually
(13:15):
got on the show. So somewhere in there they were
thinking about John and I together. So yeah, at some point,
but I think.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that was like the initial
thing was how to bring you in, and then they
were like, wait, we think she's much better with Jesse
or maybe they maybe everyone was just like we need
to do something about this Jesse character.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
He needs some help.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
But they were like her, Yeah, but I was supposed
to come on and be Bob's co host, and I
think there was like a little bit of talk like
maybe we went on a date that then that never
came to fruition. It just became I came on because
the first episode I remember was when John walks in
the house and and I say, oh, you must be
(13:55):
Danny's brother in law Jesse. And he's like, oh, like
what did he say about me? And I know he's
that he had a brother in law named Jesse like that.
Like that was like the very like so there was
like a they are like out of the gate. They
wrote like a little kind of.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
We loved those moments though, By the way, those are
some of our favorite Becky moments that we've seen because
we're like, yes, put him in his place, that's him,
thank you, thank you, Like no, we're not talking about you.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
It's not all about you, sir. Like you just happen
to be here, you know what.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I mean, Like he just I'm like, go off, Becky.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, but it was it was fun and that show
was such a blessing. You know. I have such gratitude
for all the years that I was on that show
and all the family that we became and the good
times and in you know, you'd have to pinch yourself
and say, I'm getting paid to come here, like it
was just it was amazing. It was just amazing. And
(14:48):
I don't know, I mean, I have other friends that
have worked on television series for you know, quite some time.
I just don't know of any cast that came together
like our cast, did, you know. It's just the chemistry,
the formula was so perfect, and there was such true love,
you know, that we all had for one another, you know.
And I wonder sometimes is the fact that you guys
(15:10):
were so little that it because there were little kids involved,
it really felt like a family, you know, and we
as adults and we weren't that old ourselves. We were
in our twenties, but we were like just so protective
of you guys, and you know, it was just it
was just an all around wonderful experience.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
It was you know, we always say it too like
it you guys were still young and in your twenties,
but you guys were all family people like you all
were warm, loving, carrying people in your real life, and
so it was like this combination of people that were
all you know that when there were the kids were there,
(15:50):
of course, it just you naturally gravitated towards caretaking instead
of being like, oh kids, know, there was not anybody
in the cast that was like I hate kids.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know, everybody loved everyone.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yea, everybody loved kids, either wanted them, eventually had them,
or like you know, it just was a real family environment.
And that's not always the case in a group of actors.
There's oftentimes people were like, that's not family life avor me,
And that was definitely not our cast.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
And I think also because the kids had.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Such prominent storylines, like the adults and the kids really
interacted a lot more.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, yeah, on our show, It's true. And you guys
were all I was always amazed at how talented all
of you, You and Candice and Andrea, Like, you guys
were just so so funny, so spot on. You could
bring the comedy, you could bring the heartfelt moments, like
it was impressive to watch truly, you know, it was
such a joy to watch you guys, to work with
(16:50):
you guys, you know, it was just it was wonderful.
You guys were great, still are. And then when you
came back and did Fuller House, it was amazing, just
amazing all of you, your comedy chops, everything right there,
falling right back into line.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It was really fun.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Thanks Lori, Oh my god, I love you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
We'll pay you later. Okayay, yeah, yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah,
rks for that.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I'll give you my good mother.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
I would love to hear, though, how you got started
in the business. I mean, one of the things that
we've been having fun doing on the show is asking
all the questions that we didn't know the answers to
because we were kids, or that, you know, things we
didn't get to know about all of the people on
our show. And I know you were fifteen when you've
got your first role.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I was fifteen when I got a part on a
soap opera. But how I started in the industry was
I was eleven years old and I started out modeling,
and it was and nobody in my family was in
the entertainment industry. My father worked for the New York
Telephone Company and my mother was a housewife. But when
I was a kid, I was I always said I
(17:52):
wanted to be an actress. And I think it was
one of those things like, oh, you want to be
an astronaut, you want to be whatever, you know, like biology, Yeah,
you know, you're going to be an actress whatever. And
then she had a friend that was taking her girls
in and I grew up in New York. I was
on Long Island, about an hour outside New York City,
and my mother's good friends and I'm taking my daughters
(18:12):
into a modeling agency they had, like at that time,
it was just an open call. You brought some snapshots
in to see if you were photogenic. And she said,
I know, Laurie's always asking you if you know she
wants to be an actress, and can I you know,
do you want to go with us? Like, let's go
and meet this agent. So my mom was like, well, okay,
and so we went and the modeling agent. The woman,
(18:34):
her name was Marge McDermott. She owned her own agency,
and she took me on the spot. She looked at
my photos and she said she said to the other
my mom's good friend's daughter, She's like, no, you're I'm
not going to take you guys. I don't know if
they were kind of a little bit older or whatever,
but I was the youngest one. And she said, but
I'll take you and handed my mom like a contract.
(18:54):
We walked out and my mom I think my mom
was because I think my mom thought, oh, I'll shut
her up, like she'll go in they won't take her.
That'll be the end of that, you know, she'll be done.
And then and then my parents were really cool. They
said like, look, if you want. My dad happened to
work in New York City, so it worked out well.
My mom would pick me up after school. We'd go
on you know, go sees and you know, modeling go
(19:16):
Sees and my dad would beat us and then we
would drive home together. But it was like a family
effort out of the gate. And then when I was
and then as I was like rolling along, and then
I got a commercial agent. Then I started doing some commercials,
although it was never very lucky in commercials. I did some,
but I didn't book a ton of commercials. And then
when I was fifteen, my manager sent me in on
(19:40):
an audition for a soap opera called The Edge of Night.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
And remember that show.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, And I think I had done one other small
part in a TV movie with Blife Dianner and Michael
Moriarty for NBC. It was a very small part, and
I was studying a little bit of acting here and
there with this lady. Her name is Sylvia Lee you'
and she was very theatrical. She talked like this, darling anyway,
(20:06):
That's what I study with her, but then I got
sent on this this soap audition, and I remember my
manager said, look, they really want someone who's eighteen years old.
You're you're a little young. I was like two months
shy of turning sixteen. She goes, but I'm going to
send you in anyway. Meet the casting director. Just you know,
(20:28):
don't tell him you're fifteen, say like you're seventeen or whatever.
I'm like, okay. Meanwhile, I look like I'm twelve because
I was just like, I don't want to like those right.
So I go in and I meet the casting director
and I'm just sitting there chatting, and when she says
to me, how old are you? I go fifteen? And
then I'm like I wasn't just to say that, like
saying I'm seventeen. You know, you know actors on your resume,
(20:50):
can your parachute out of a plane? Sure?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, I done it off and did it last weekend.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
And then so she goes, oh, you know what, you're
really too young for this role. But you know, I
enjoyed meeting you. And I said okay, and I get
up to leave her office and she goes, oh, wait
a minute, come back, come back, read the sides for me,
just reading there, you know. So I read the sides
for her, and she goes, you know, you're too young,
but I like you, so I'm going to bring you
back for the producers. And at the time, Procter and Gamble.
(21:20):
That's why they were called soaks, right, because they were
sponsored by companies that made companies schwashing detergent, launder detergent.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And targeted towards housewives exactly.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And so I went in and I read for all
the people at Procter and Gamble and the people at ABC,
and she brought and I'll never forget they When I
got into the audition, they had like a lot of
girls there and they all were looked much older than me.
They were older than me. And they had some guys
that were casting a male role too, and they paired
us up with you know, the guy, and we had
to go in an audition together. And I will never
(21:51):
forget this. I don't know his last name. All I
know is his first name was Todd. The actor I
was paired up with. And literally before as the casting
walking us to the audition room, as she's putting her
hand on the doorknob. He turns around and he says
to me, you know, every time I audition with a
girl for a soap opera, she gets the role and
I don't. And literally we walk in the room, we
(22:14):
do the audition. Two hours later, I get a call.
I got the part. I have no idea what happened
to Todd. Oh no, that funny, but I'll never forget that.
And so then thanks Todd, I know man.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
And then he charmed Todd, I mean, not for himself,
but exactly for everyone else.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
He was so sweet. I can still see his face
and I don't remember his last name. I don't know
if he's still in the business, but that's exactly what
he said to me. And then I got that part.
And I was on that show for three and a
half years, and it was wonderful because I really was green.
I didn't know what I was doing, and at the time,
I was supposed to be playing this ballet dancer. And
(22:55):
they never they didn't make you audition and dance. They
just said, oh, do you have any dance training? So
you know, of course to collective, Oh sure I can dance,
you know, I'm like, yeah, sure, don't worry, and when
I got to work the first day, I barely knew
how to act. I get to an actual dance studio
set with a choreographer, and I was like, oh man,
I'm in way over my head, like and then I
(23:16):
finally had to go to the producers and be like, look,
I didn't realize when you asked for dancing that it
was like full choreography and you know, and in hindsight,
I'm like, it was going to be a snippet of
ten seconds. But I was so rattled because I couldn't
even I didn't even know how to act, that they
were like, Okay, honey, don't worry about it. So in
(23:36):
the world of soap opera, I was the hopeful ballerina
but I really couldn't dance, but nobody tell her she
didn't have talent. Like that's how they kind of ow
my story. And then I became it was a mystery soap,
and then I became like the little Nancy Drew of
the of daytime television, and I was on that. I
(23:57):
was on that show three and a half years and
I was kidnapped seven and tie. Wow, that sounds about right.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, that's like the luck of like a war reporter
or something that's yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And then well, Andrew, I'm so when you were little.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
I did Days of our Lives, so I was I was, yeah,
what was I? I think I was kidnapped once brainwashed?
Maybe uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Did you die and come back to life? That's always almost.
Did you have an evil twin?
Speaker 2 (24:25):
I knew I was an.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Evil twin that killed you and then and then took
over your life and pretended to be you, and then
you came back to life and killed them.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah, but that's how I started. And then it was
great training because I worked with all these wonderful theater actors.
Every one of those actors, I think they all had
a show on Broadway or off Broadway. We'd leave the studio,
I would go home. I would continue Like the child
labor laws were different in New York, so I had
to go to school at night. I had to provide
to find my own tutors. It was like a whole.
(24:53):
But they would all go to the theater. But they
were wonderful because they all like kind of took me
and they all studied it, you know, different, you know whatever.
They at Strausburg and my friend Joel went to Harvard,
and but they all would take me and sort of
help me out and teach me. And so I felt
like even though I was I had to be ready
(25:14):
and be prepared, and I was going live every day
on television or not live, you know, you like tape whatever.
We'd tape them. They would exactly, we would tape it
and then it would air like a couple days later.
But they shot it like it was a live show,
which was interesting because they I'm sure they did you
do block tape, Andrea, is that how you guys did it?
(25:35):
Like you'd shoot that one scene and then you or
you'd finish everything in that set. We would do everything live,
like go from set to set, and they type in
the soap opera music as well. It's kind of it
was maybe they kept it. Yeah, they kept it running
like it was a live TV show because it started
out as a live TV show, started out on radio,
then it moved to tele live television, and they shot
(25:56):
it was like a live TV show. So we knew
every day we'd be out by four o'clock because we
shoot that show like it was live.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
But I was like working with all these wonderful actors.
Who took the time to teach me and take me
under their wing. And and that was my first big break.
And that's how I met John. That's how I met
Samos because he was doing General Hospital. We were both
on ABC and he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy
and I was the presenter that year of that award,
(26:24):
and that's how that's how I met him. Oh my gosh,
I didn't know that. Yeah, and that's how we first met.
And did he win or no? He didn't know. Darnell
Williams from All My only Todd was there. If only
Todd had been there to listen till this stay stays,
Why couldn't you just say my name? Well, of course
(26:47):
he did. But lovely Darnell Williams one. He was great.
He was on All My Children. Okay, okay, so okay. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I feel like soaps are also great training because you
you are it's every day, it's it's a news every day,
and it's like it really hones in your memorization skills
ability to just kind of go with whatever is happening,
especially if you're shooting live.
Speaker 3 (27:10):
To tape like it's a live show.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
You're like, all right, well that fell off the wall
and we're just gonna keep going.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That's it. And they would do that if you could. Ye.
I worked with this actor who would go up on
his lines quite frequently, and I could always tell when
he was going to go up because his eyes would
kind of start to shake in his sockets, Like I
could tell he start to panic because he was like
going to forget his lines. So I would memorize my
lines and his lines and if I could pick it
(27:36):
up or feed him a que I would do it
and they would keep going. They would let it, they
would let it go.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
I mean, it's like theaters.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, if you can save each whatever, as long as
we get through it.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
Exactly, That's exactly what it was like. But it was
great training in that in that regard, because you're on
the spot, you had to do it, you had to
figure it out, you know, it was something, and then
you could watch it back, which was also you know,
very valuable.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
So oh I love that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Yeah, it's like it's like boot camp for actors.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, seriously, Yeah, it is exactly what it's like.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
I had no idea that you and John had met previously.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Oh yeah, we had.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
We were friends, Like I mean I knew you were
both on on soap operas at the same time, but
I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We met and we kept in touch for a little while,
and I think I was maybe like seventeen, he was eighteen.
He's a year older than me, like seventeen, eighteen years
old when we met babies and we stayed touch. But
he lived in California. I remember I came out. Oh
here's a trivia question for you guys. So I came
out to California and I was in touch with John
(28:45):
and he invited me to go where with him?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Disneyland?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Where you go?
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Shocker?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
So we went to disney Land. His friends do you
remember Jimmy, Joe and those guys Papa do run run anyway?
To go see Al.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
I was at his wedding. My family became really close
with Alan, his family through John.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Oh my god, that's so funny. Yeah. So anyway, we
went to see the band, We went on stage Disneyland,
and we kind of stayed in touch. And then he
came to New York with a bunch of his friends
and I had my girlfriends with me and we went
out one night in New York City. But we didn't,
you know, there was. It was not the time of
cell phones. It was not the time of texting. You
had to pick up the phone and call each other.
And so then we sort of just drifted apart. And
(29:29):
then the role on Full House came along, and I
guess I was about twenty three, so you know, maybe
four or five years later. And when I got the
call to audition, they said, oh this. We had the
same agent and my agent said, oh, my other client,
John SteamOS, And I'm like, oh, I know John SteamOS
and he's like, yeah, he's doing this show. And I'm
like okay, great. And I was flat broke when I
(29:51):
got the audition for Fullhouse. I had paid my rent
and I had there had been like a strike. I
hadn't worked for over a year. Remember I paid my rent.
I walked into my agent's office and I was like,
I need a job, like I'm I'm broke, like I
And he said, oh, I just got this call. There's
an audition. They were interested in seeing you. It's just
six episodes for this show. And that's when he said
(30:12):
my client, John Stamos. I'm like I know John. He's like, yeah,
is this this is his show? New show? Or would
you want to go in an audition for these six episodes,
and I'm like, I will audition for anything, like anything, right,
So that's how I ended up there, and then it
was such a blessing because I stayed for seven years. Wow.
So you guys never dated?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
You and John, Like, I feel like there's rumors that
you guys dated.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Before Full House, but that's not true because we were
I think because we were friends, and I think, you know,
like you know, when we were first hanging out, maybe
if we had lived on the same coast, maybe something
like we just we was like we kind of had
these little hangout things and then.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
You know, we're young and cute, and you know, I
like to.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Tell some crazy story about you made out on the
matter horn and I'm like what, But I think it's
just that's just for me in his own history, or
he's just he's.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Just old now. I'm just skidding.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
He's just funny, but he's Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
It's so crazy though to think about that, Like you
and John had met previously, Bob and Dave were friends previously,
but like there, I mean, it's sort of also the
nature of this business, right, is that if you're in
it for a little while everyone sort of knows each other,
but the way that all of us did, or that
the adults on the show had connected previously, was not
(31:28):
It was sort of happenstance and like not uh intentional,
you know what I mean, It wasn't planned. Everyone was
like Dave was in Detroit and Bob was on tour
and that you know how everything sort of came together
and then it was like we all like came back
and there was just a level of like commonality already there.
It was like all of our little stars had already
(31:50):
sort of intertwined.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You know, Dave was stayed on Bob's couch. I mean,
they really did have that same relationship as Danny and
and Joey and they.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Were seventeen eighteen when they met, and seineteen eighteen nineteen.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
You and John eighteen seventeen eighteen.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
I mean, it's funny all of us, from the adults
to the kids, have known each other almost our whole lives.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Well, gosh, Judy, I mean I think about you guys.
What you were five when I met you? I mean yeah, five, Mary,
Kate and Ashley were what were they nine months? Ten months? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Nine months? The first season, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
So when I came along, so they were a little
bit older, but still but they really really talking yet.
And what you and Candae Andrew were you ten when.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
I met you.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
We were ten years old when we started the show,
So yeah, ten. I mean, we've known you about their lives.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I know, it's crazy, but it's lovely. It's just so yeah,
it is.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
It's generations.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean, you know, you guys have the adults the
legacy has known each other since they were teenagers.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
We've known each other our whole lives, like what, yeah,
and our kids have now, you know. I mean it's
I know, you know, I mean to.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
Think that, like our kids are now almost as old
as you guys were when you all sort of randomly
met out there.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Yeahs blowing, that's wild.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Yeah, I can't imagine my life without you guys, Like
I just can't even right sure, I know, before you
guys or without you, No, it's.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
No, I don't really remember anything without you guys in
my life.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Isn't that funny? Which would make sense because you were fine.
It's true, how many memories you really have before you're five.
That's sort of like when you start like holding onto
your memories five, six, seven years old.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Yeah, and all of them, I mean all of them,
have you guys in them. You know, when I think
of holidays, I think of like being at home, but
I also think of our Christmas parties or like getting
gifts for everyone on set or do you know, like
everything that we grew up with was just so tied
into this show. Are we doing outros or do we
(34:04):
need to?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
We should we?
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I should probably just roll into it instead of announcing it,
you know, like I don't know, leave this in right.
I don't know, I'm just I just wanted to clarify,
make sure I didn't like, you know, well, some time
doing an outro and you were like, wait, what are
we doing?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Well, sometimes we're like are we still recording?
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Are we not?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
I don't know, Like let's just tap.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Just just roll it right, just push record and who
knows what happens? Anything, well, anything goes, And if you've
been listening to this podcast, you know that anything goes.
And we are just the pinnacle of organization and professionalism here.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Uh and you all love LRI just as much as
we do. So we didn't want to skimp out on
any questions for this interview.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
We will be releasing Part two with LORII this Friday,
so make sure and stay tuned for a chance to
hear even more from Aunt Becky herself. If you want
to find us on Instagram, you can follow us at
how Rude Podcast. You can also send us emails at
Howard podcast at gmail dot com. Make sure you're liking
and subscribing to the podcast wherever you're listening to it
so that you can keep it up in the ratings
(35:07):
and also leave us some reviews. We love to hear
how it's going and what you guys are liking about
the show.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Thank you so much, Ab for being here. You're amazing.
I just wanted to say it.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Yeah, what a rare and lovely moment of expression.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Of your heart. You do have a heart. I do
have a big heart. I have a big heart and
lots of feelings. I just hide them under a way
you do because it's scary. You do. I love you
well and I appreciate you every day.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
I love you and I appreciate you too. Now let's
see if I can now don't appreciation right? Hold on,
get your bracelet.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
My bracelet.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I got it, but I got to make sure I
start at the right the Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Okay, the world is small, but the house is full
effortless thanks to the brace that.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
Yeah, I don't know about effortless but minimal. Cheers, cheers
Speaker 4 (36:11):
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