‘Full House’ Child Actors Fielded ‘Gross’ Questions About Uncle Jesse From Adult Interviewers
Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, there’s a grown-ass adult asking a child if they find Uncle Jesse sexy.
There’s no questioning the fact that, out of all of the hotties and heartthrobs of 1990s television, John Stamos was in the upper echelon of family-friendliness during his time on the hit sitcom Full House. Playing the musically inclined, Elvis-obsessed, avuncular hunk Uncle Jesse, Stamos became one of those rare sex symbols who managed to maintain that perfect G-rating throughout his historic run as the subject of so many comedy lovers’ not-so-G-rated fantasies, in no small part because Uncle Jesse was so good with the girls — but not too good, not in a weird way that would give the Tanners and their friends uncomfortable ideas.
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While Stamos may have been the most desired man on television to so many grown adult women and men when Full House was on the air, the many child actors of the show’s cast naturally didn’t see their co-worker as a subject of desire as did their audience. However, as Full House stars Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin explained on a recent episode of their rewatch podcast, How Rude, Tanneritos!, members of the entertainment media constantly asked the former child stars if they thought Aunt Becky was a very lucky lady.
During the podcast episode, which featured call-in questions from Barber and Sweetins fans, the pair of old friends and co-stars addressed an all-too-common query that has haunted them since they were still doing Full House press promotion. “It’s like when people asked us in media interviews, they’re like, ‘Did you ever have a crush on John Stamos?’” said Barber, who played the Tanners’ nosy next door neighbor Kimmy Gibbler on Full House and who apparently had to remind adults that she joined the show when she was just 11 years old. “That is a gross question, no.”
Barber says that, while she certainly has fond feelings for Stamos, Dave Coulier and the rest of the adult men from the cast of Full House, it would have been inappropriate and completely creepy for a child actor to develop an attraction toward her adult co-stars. “They’re like our older brothers, and we do not think of them that way,” Barber explained.
Sweetin, who played Stephanie Tanner on Full House, had a minor, canonical correction. “Not even older brothers. They’re like my uncles,” Sweetin explained.
“They’re our buddies, and, yeah, this is kind of a weird question,” Barber said of the fan-submitted inquiry.
After all, no one would ever ask Stamos the same question about Barber or Sweetin — at least, no one who wanted to keep their teeth. Have mercy.
