Full House actress Anne Marie McEvoy never planned on a career in Hollywood.
McEvoy, 48, who played “popular” Cathy Santoni on the hit comedy-drama, told her “Full House” co-stars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber that she had decided to leave Hollywood to go to college.
“I didn’t become an actress because I wanted to be an actress as a kid,” McEvoy explained on the podcast, “How Rude, Tanneritos!” “It was work. It was about going to college… money… all that stuff.”
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From left: Anne Marie McEvoy played the “popular” friend of Andrea Barber and Candace Cameron Bure on Full House; (Getty Images)
When asked why he decided to leave Hollywood, McEvoy responded, “It was always my intention… I never thought I’d stay in Hollywood.”
“Everyone wants to be famous,” 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, “College is a better fit for me than Hollywood.”
McEvoy played a friend of Candace Cameron Bure’s and Barber’s on “Full House.” The cast explained how she appeared in several “key episodes.” McEvoy appeared in the drinking episodes “Spin the Bottle” and “Say No Way.”
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Anne Marie McEvoy shared how she taught lessons she learned from “Full House” in her classroom. (Getty Images)
McEvoy, a former actress, earned her doctorate in developmental educational psychology from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. McEvoy joined the university’s faculty as an assistant professor of education.
She went on to share how she has taught lessons she learned from the hit show in the classroom.
“I study adolescent development and I teach classes on it,” McEvoy told Sweetin and Barber, “and I’ve taught entire classes on ‘Full House.’ I’ve used examples from ‘Full House.'”
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McEvoy, who played Cathy Santoni on the hit comedy, 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 his students had seen her on “Full House” and recognised her as a cast member of the popular comedy show.
“People notice and after class they quietly say, ‘I was watching TV last night and I saw you. Was that you on ‘Full House?'” she said.
Mr McEvoy said she laughed and replied: “You’ve got an exam tomorrow. What are you doing watching TV?”
Mr. McEvoy also starred in “Mr. Belvedere.” (Getty Images)
“I came out at the beginning of the semester and everyone knew about it. I didn’t really have much to talk about other things so I just went with it,” she explained.
McEvoy said the film included lessons about “adolescent sexuality, alcohol, family and peers,” citing scenes from “Full House.”
“It’s a great show in that sense. It’s so full of important things and identity: who you are, trying on makeup, fighting with your friends… it’s all that stuff,” she said.
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While the Full House actress has no plans to return to acting anytime soon, McEvoy reprised her role as Santoni in the 2016 Netflix reboot of Fuller House.
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