The Full Home forged thinks a number of characters from the present had been a part of the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood — however which of them?
In the course of the Tuesday, October 1, episode of their “How Impolite, Tanneritos!” podcast, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber answered a fan query about which Full and Fuller Home characters they thought of queer.
“Steph, for positive,” Sweetin, 42, mentioned about her personal character, who she performed within the authentic Full Home collection and the spinoff.
The actress pointed to a season 4 episode of Fuller Home the place Stephanie casually mentions having a girlfriend prior to now, including, “Steph is certainly — she is someplace to the suitable on the Kinsey scale.” (The Kinsey scale was developed by sexologist Alfred Kinsey and measures an individual’s sexual orientation on a scale of solely heterosexual at 0 to solely homosexual at 6.)
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Barber, 48, in the meantime, reacted to a listener commenting that her character, Kimmy Gibbler, was “queer-coded” all through the seasons.
“Kimmy doesn’t match into any bins. Like, she doesn’t need labels or bins,” Barber famous earlier than Sweetin replied, “Kimmy loves the particular person, doesn’t care concerning the bundle.”
The costars additionally talked about actor Blake McIver Ewing, who performed Michelle’s (Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen) classmate Derek on Full Home.
“I don’t learn about anyone else in the primary forged, although,” Sweetin mentioned. Barber joked that there was a dialog available about Danny (Bob Saget), Joey (Dave Coulier) and Jesse’s (John Stamos) dynamic on the present.
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“We didn’t speak about that within the ’80s, proper?” she shared. “Three males dwelling in a house collectively in San Francisco — you’d assume it could come up. But it surely didn’t.”
Full Home, which ran from 1987 to 1995, adopted Danny as he tried to lift his three daughters — D.J. (Candace Cameron Bure), Stephanie and Michelle — after his spouse’s loss of life. Danny’s brother-in-law, Jesse, and greatest buddy Joey subsequently moved in to assist him out.
The collection additionally starred Barber, Lori Loughlin and Steve Weinger and was revived by Netflix as Fuller Home in 2016. Lots of the present’s OG forged members appeared all through the spinoff’s five-season run.
Regardless of documenting their offscreen reunions over time, Stamos, 61, later admitted that Saget’s loss of life modified the close-knit connection between the forged.
“The unhappy factor about shedding Bob — I imply, there have been plenty of causes [it was sad], clearly — was that he was the man who actually form of saved us collectively,” Stamos instructed InStyle in October 2023. “We attempt, we speak. However we’re not collectively as a lot as we used to [be]. We had been a household, and I feel individuals acquired that too. Each on and off digicam.”
Saget died at age 65 in January 2022 in his Orlando, Florida, lodge room. One month later, the Orange County, Florida, health worker confirmed that Saget’s passing was the results of “blunt head trauma” from an “unintended” fall.
The Full Home forged launched an announcement after Saget’s passing, saying, “Thirty-five years in the past, we got here collectively as a TV household, however we turned an actual household. He was a brother to us guys, a father to us women and a buddy to all of us. Bob, we love you dearly.”