Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin don’t suppose their Full Home characters had been 100% straight.
On the most recent episode of their rewatch podcast How Rude, Tanneritos!, the longtime costars and shut mates took questions from listeners, with one fan asking which Full and Fuller Home characters they personally see as queer.
“Steph, for certain,” Sweetin, a long-time LGBTQ+ ally, instantly stated of her character.
The actress, 42, famous that in season 4 of Netflix’s Full Home reboot Fuller Home, her character casually mentions that she had a girlfriend for a time. In a 2018 tweet, costar Candace Cameron Bure confirmed that Sweetin truly adlibbed the road, so her shocked response within the scene was her real response on set.
“Steph is certainly — she is someplace to the fitting on the Kinsey scale,” Sweetin defined on Tanneritos, referring to the index developed by pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey which measures an individual’s sexual orientation on a scale of 0 (completely heterosexual) to six (completely gay).
Responding to the listener’s suggestion that her character, Kimmy Gibbler, is “queer coded,” Barber, 48, stated that “Kimmy doesn’t match into any bins. Like, she does not need labels or bins.”
“Kimmy loves the particular person, does not care the bundle,” Sweetin agreed, including that Barber’s character is perhaps pansexual.
As for the remainder of the unique solid, Barber and Sweetin famous that out actor Blake McIver Ewing, who appeared in a number of Full Home episodes as Michelle Tanner’s classmate Derek and appeared within the collection finale of Fuller Home, would agree that his character most likely grew as much as be queer.
“I do not find out about anyone else in the principle solid, although,” Sweetin stated.
“We did not discuss that within the ’80s, proper?” Barber agreed. “Three males dwelling in a house collectively in San Francisco — you’d suppose it might come up. Nevertheless it didn’t.”
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Barber famous that Fuller Home did characteristic the present’s first overtly queer character: Kimmy’s assistant Casey, performed by out transgender actress Miss Benny. In a July 2023 TikTok, the Glamorous star steered that Bure had lobbied to have Casey faraway from the present, which Bure has denied.
Barber and Sweetin additionally recalled the second in Fuller Home when their characters locked lips. The season 1 episode noticed Kimmy’s ex-husband Fernando (Juan Pablo Di Tempo) making an attempt to woo her again, with Stephanie stepping in to sing a romantic tune for him when he turns into too nervous. Her serenading is so efficient, Kimmy vegetation a passionate kiss on her.
“That was an important second,” Barber stated. “It is so bizarre as a result of, like, I’ve recognized you so lengthy. It was snug.”
“I’d do it once more,” Barber added.
“I’d too,” stated Sweetin.