actor Dave Coulier defends Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's decision not to return as Michelle Tanner in . The famed twins got their start playing the youngest Tanner daughter in where they worked closely with Coulier, who played the family's close friend, Joey. While Coulier and the majority of the original series' cast all returned for Netflix's spin-off sequel, , the Olsens chose to sit the project out, causing a lot of disappointment from both their former co-stars and fans.

A few years after , Coulier opens up about the controversy surrounding Mary-Kate and Ashley's decision to not reprise Michelle in the Netflix series in a new interview with (which happened before the SAG-AFTRA strike) to promote his new rewatch podcast, . The comedian says that he fully understands where the pair was coming from when they refused the project. Read his full quote below:

It was so sweet to see them and just share some time with them, you know, because they were babies and little girls when we did the show.

So they have a different perspective of the show. I was an adult. But for them, imagine growing up, you know, on the Warner Brothers lot. I mean, we saw each other more than we saw our own family. So for them, I think there's a different perspective there. Me, I was looking at it as, I'm gonna go to work each day and do the best job for them. It was life, you know, because we were hanging out after the show, we would all hang out on weekends, or go to birthday parties, or celebrate things, have barbecues, pool parties. So, you know, speaking with them — they had a little bit of a different experience. I mean, imagine starting a TV show when you're only nine months old.

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