Viewers love their sitcoms. Whether it's those from yesteryear like I Love Lucy or more recent gems like Full House, the shows may be gone but not forgotten. The actors on Full House, which aired from 1987 to 1995, became beloved stars. Bob Saget, John Stamos, and Dave Coulier were in people's homes and hearts. The likable trio seemed like such great buddies. However, Stamos shared some insights about their relationship when he spoke with Bobby Bones on his BobbyCast podcast that may surprise you. The three weren't pals from the get-go, Stamos said. It took some painful family tragedies to finally bring these guys closer.
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Stamos Approached Acting on the Show Differently Than Saget and Coulier Did
John Stamos seemingly felt that his co-stars were still in stand-up comic mode on Full House. He was coming at it from another perspective. At first, Stamos was kind of put out by this disparity.
He confided to Bobby Bones, "I was coming from, I just did a show with Jack Klugman, who's a famous sitcom guy, and so I was coming to [Full House] with more of an actor's point of view of these scenes and trying to work these scenes. And the guys were just trying to make the guys, the crew, laugh and whatever that was about."
"We Were Three Brothers Grieving"
It sounds like the actors did not mesh all that well, at least not at first. Nevertheless, when serious health-related crises struck their families, they truly pulled together.
John Stamos said, "We didn't get along at all for the first couple of years. And then I think it was maybe the third or fourth, something like that, season [and] Bob's sister got scleroderma —which he spent the rest of his life advocating raising money for this horrific disease —Dave's sister got cancer, and my sister had gotten diagnosed with a brain tumor. And so all of a sudden we weren't three guys on a show, we were three brothers grieving, you know, our sisters."
Dave Coulier and Bob Saget tragically had to cope with the deaths of their sisters. John Stamos' sister fortunately made it through her ordeal. Now, the three men had a genuine bond that was rock-sold.
Stamos recalled, "We became really close then, and then we just started to, you know, realized that there was a lot to learn from each other, I think, and I had a lot to learn. I learned a lot from those guys."
Bob Saget's Shocking Death Was Hard To Bear
Saget died at the age of 65 in January 2022. He had a fall in a Florida hotel room. John Stamos was devastated. The two had become very close. Stamos said to Bobby Bones, "We were just there for each other through every, you know, all the ups and downs of life, divorces, marriages. But I just loved him so dearly, and it was such a tragic loss. Just one day, just in a blink of an eye, he was gone."
As for Dave Coulier, he has dealt with cancer twice himself. Per Entertainment Weekly, Coulier had stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma two years ago. Last year, he was diagnosed with p16 squamous carcinoma. Per the outlet, he is in remission.
