“Full House” actress Anne Marie McEvoy never planned to make Hollywood her permanent career.
McEvoy, 48, who played “popular girl” Kathy Santoni on the hit sitcom, told her “Full House” co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber that she was determined to leave Hollywood to go to college.
“When I was little, I didn’t do it because I wanted to be an actress,” McEvoy explained on the “How Rude, Tanneritos!” podcast. “It was a job. I go to college… the money… all that.”
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From left: Anne Marie McEvoy plays Andrea Barber and Candace Cameron Bure’s “popular” friend in “Full House.” (Getty Images)
When asked why she decided to leave Hollywood, McEvoy said, “I always planned to… I never thought I was going to stay.”
“Everybody wants to be famous, right?” she continued. “That’s not what I wanted. I really wanted to… be a mom. I wanted to… get a PhD. I wanted to be a professor.”
She added that she had “fitted in more” at university “than in Hollywood.”
McEvoy played Candace Cameron Bure and Barber’s friend on “Full House.” The cast described how she was featured in several “heavy episodes.” McEvoy guest-starred on the drinking episodes “Spin the Bottle” and “Say No Way.”
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Anne Marie McEvoy explained how she took lessons from “Full House” and taught them in class. (Getty Images)
The former actress received her doctorate in developmental and educational psychology from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. McEvoy joined the faculty as an assistant professor of education.
She then explained how she took lessons from the hit series and taught them in the classroom.
“I studied adolescent development and I teach courses on that,” McEvoy told Sweetin and Barber. “I taught a whole version of the course … around ‘Full House.’ I used examples from ‘Full House.’”
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McEvoy, who played Kathy Santoni on the hit sitcom, told her “Full House” co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber that she had always been determined to leave Hollywood to go to college. (Kevin Mazur)
McEvoy admitted that one of her students discovered she was on “Full House” and recognized her from the popular sitcom.
“People would find out and…quietly after school…and say, ‘I was watching TV last night and I saw you. Was that you on ‘Full House?'” she said.
McEvoy said she would laugh and reply, “You have a test tomorrow. What are you doing watching TV?”
McEvoy also appeared in “Mr. Belvedere.” (Getty Images)
“It was towards the beginning of the semester that I was outed and everyone found out. And since we can’t really talk about anything else, I just leaned into it,” she explained.
McEvoy said she included lessons about “teenage sexuality, drinking, family and peers” based on sample scenes from “Full House.”
“It’s a fantastic show for that. All the big names… and the identity. Your sense of who you are and trying on makeup… and fighting with your friends… I mean, that’s what it was,” she said.
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Although the “Full House” actress has no plans to return to acting anytime soon, McEvoy reprised her role as Santoni in Netflix’s “Fuller House” reboot in 2016.
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