Marla Sokoloff‘s daughters were not impressed by her Full House character’s rebellious attitude.
During Sokoloff’s Friday appearance on Dave Coulier‘s podcast Full House Rewind, the actress said that her character Gia was “perfect” for her because she was “so biting and always being set up by somebody to come in and do something deplorable or irritating.”
“That’s inherently in me,” admitted Sokoloff.
Sokoloff was a recurring guest star on Full House for seasons seven and eight, where she played Gia, Stephanie’s best friend. Initially introduced as a troubled teen who smoked in the school bathroom with a bad crowd, Gia eventually shed her “bad girl” ways with Stephanie’s help.
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“Didn’t you smoke or something on the show?” Coulier asked Sokoloff. When she confirmed that she did have to smoke herbal cigarettes on Full House, the actor wondered if Sokoloff’s daughters have watched her episodes from the show.
“[My children] started with Fuller House and then I was like, ‘Guys, you need to watch the original. You gotta start from scratch.’ And then they got into that one,” she told Coulier.
“What do you tell them when they see Gia? ‘Don’t act like that?'” Coulier asked the mom of three.
“Exactly,” she replied. “Especially with the smoking stuff. They’re horrified. They’re like, ‘Mom, you were smoking?!'”
Sokoloff also fondly looked back at her time on set, recalling that the cast was “so amazing” to her. “Especially being a guest star, it’s a really precarious place to be,” she said. “Even if it’s a show you’ve been on, you’re a guest and you guys never made me feel like that.”
“Because you just became family,” shared Coulier. “You were a nice kid, you know? Because we had some kids who weren’t nice. They didn’t get invited to the parties and they usually didn’t come back for the show.”
Coulier added that they had “actors and actresses melt down.” When asked for clarification from Sokoloff on whether these were children or adults, he confirmed, “No, these were adult actors.”
