Have mercy! John Stamos temporarily fired the Olsen twins in the early stages of Full House.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who memorably co-starred as Michelle Tanner on the popular sitcom from 1987 to 1995, were almost fired from the program, the actor claimed during an appearance on Josh Peck‘s Good Guys podcast on Monday (April 24).
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The twins, who were 11 months old at the time, were having a difficult day on set during a notable season 1 sequence in which Jesse Katsopolis, played by Stamos, and Joey Gladstone, played by Dave Coulier, were entrusted with caring for the infant, the actor remembered.
“[Dave] and I were changing the baby,” Stamos told Peck. “We’re carrying the baby downstairs, I think I was holding on to their armpits and Dave was holding her little feet. We take her into the kitchen and hosed her down, we put a fan on her, wrapped her up in paper towels. She was screaming.”
“Both of them, they wanted to be anywhere else but there, and so did I,” he added. “They were 11 months old, and God bless them. And they kept switching.”
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Stamos remembered thinking the Olsen twins weren’t prepared for prime time as things got worse.
“I said, ‘This is not going to work, guys,’ and I screamed it 10 times,” Stamos said. “I said, ‘Get rid of them, I can’t work like this.'”
The Olsen sisters were welcomed back to the show after the producers briefly hired “two red-headed kids” who appeared to be less adorable than Mary-Kate and Ashley – “I’m sure their parents loved them and thought they were attractive,” Stamos joked.
“I said, ‘Bring the Olsens back, these kids are terrible!'” Stamos said. “It was a day or something, we tried the other kids, it didn’t work.”
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Like a true family the cast of Full House bickered and we’re so glad it worked out for the iconic onscreen family.
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