The Full House cast formed a strong connection to Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen almost immediately after the twins first appeared on the hit sitcom at 6 months old.
Mary-Kate and Ashley starred on the beloved series from 1987 to 1995. The show followed Danny Tanner (Bob Saget) as he struggled to raise his three daughters — D.J. (Candace Cameron Bure), Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley) — in the wake of his wife’s untimely death.
Amid his grief, Danny’s brother-in-law, Jesse Katsopolis (John Stamos) and best friend Joey (Dave Coulier) move in to help him raise the girls.
When Full House premiered, Mary-Kate and Ashley were infants. By the time the show ended, the pair were 8 years old. Following the show’s finale, the Olsen twins continued to act well into their late teens and before ultimately stepping out of the Hollywood spotlight to focus on their fashion careers.
You got it, dude! America fell in love with the Tanner family in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and fans celebrated when news broke that the cast would be reuniting for Netflix’s Fuller House — see then-and-now photos!
In 2015, Full House was revived with its spinoff series Fuller House, which focused on Cameron Bure and Sweetin’s characters as adults. Most of the Full House cast returned to make a cameo on the new series — the only exception being Mary-Kate and Ashley.
Despite not returning to the new show, Mary-Kate and Ashley have remained on good terms with their former costars. The sisters reunited with the cast for Saget’s funeral following his January 2022 death.
Keep scrolling to see where Mary-Kate and Ashley stand with their Full House costars:
John Stamos
After Mary-Kate and Ashley did not return for a Fuller House cameo, Stamos was upset by the twins’ decision.
“When I did Fuller House, they didn’t want to come back and I was angry for a minute and that got out,” the actor admitted during a May 2023 episode of the “And That’s What You REALLY Missed” podcast.
Stamos’ feelings changed, however, after he reconnected with the twins following Saget’s death.
“They said, ‘We loved you guys, we loved our childhood. We loved being with you. We miss Bob.’ They came over to my house and they brought a pork chop and sage,” he recalled.
Dave Coulier
Coulier shared that it was a “wonderful” experience to see Mary-Kate and Ashley, even under such tragic circumstances.
“When we saw them at Bob’s funeral and his memorial, it was just wonderful,” he said in a September 2024 interview with the New York Post. “That’s the only word I can think of. It was wonderful to see Mary-Kate and Ashley.”
Coulier added that he also had a sweet interaction with the pair.
“I went and I sat in there and I started playing around, and all of a sudden, Mary-Kate came over and she sat next to me, and then all of a sudden, Ashley sat next to me,” he recalled. “And the three of us were in there just laughing and being kids. It was wonderful.”
Jodie Sweetin
During an April 2026 episode of the “McBride Rewind” podcast, Sweetin revealed that she hasn’t really spoken to Mary-Kate or Ashley since Full House ended.
“We haven’t talked. I think after Full House and growing up and everything, they’ve had an extremely different trajectory than any of the rest of us,” she explained. “People say, ‘Oh, well, do you guys not talk? Is it bad?’ No, they were 8 years old when the show finished, [and] we weren’t as close as we were. I didn’t see them all the time.”
Sweetin added that nothing happened between her and the twins and instead their respective lives got busy.
“It wasn’t like there was bad blood between any of us, but they moved to New York and then got married and [built their] fashion empire and moved into that world,” she shared. “It was, like, we just sort of drifted apart.”
The Hallmark actress also noted that both Mary-Kate and Ashley “fiercely protect” their privacy and that the first time the entire cast reunited was for Saget’s funeral.
“When Bob passed, it was the first time that all of us had been together in a long time,” she said. “Bob would see them in New York, and I had seen them in L.A. It wasn’t bad blood, but that was the first time we’d all really been together again. It was just like it was before. It was normal. We all spent four days just constantly together after Bob passed, and it was like nothing had changed.”
Two months later, Sweetin gave an update on the cast’s connection to Mary-Kate and Ashley
“Everyone’s on good terms with them,” she explained on a June 2026 episode of Taboo’s “Comics and Kicks” podcast. “But they were 8 years old when this show stopped. Then, they did all of those movies and all that stuff that I don’t know that they really loved doing all the time.”
Sweetin added that for Mary-Kate and Ashley, acting “isn’t what they love.”
“They have a different relationship to being on set all the time,” she reflected. “They might not remember being 2 years old and having us all carrying them around and doing this stuff, but I do.”
