Jurnee Smollett Reflects on Landing Full House Role at Age 4 and Finding Her Janet Jackson Moment
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If only her version of Cabrini-Green felt inhabited by actual people. As the end credits roll, we enjoy vintage photographs of its former residents now scattered to the wind. These old faces have a candor we could use more of in the film. Some of you know how much I love Full House and now, Fuller House! When I went to San Francisco back in 2009 I had to stop by the Tanner house used on Full House. Remember how they used to show the houses, known as the painted ladies, in the opening credits of the show?
Of course a kid would only remember the food.
This is just one of many projects making it clear that Smollett has an appetite for exploring complex paths, following earlier roles on TV series including Friday Night Lights and Underground and in such films as 2007’s Denzel Washington-directed The Great Debaters. Smollett was featured in the 1996 Francis Ford Coppola film Jack. She starred in the racially charged 1999 Disney film Selma, Lord, Selma. In 2000, she co-starred with Sharon Stone (Smollett played daughter of Stone's Hush) and Billy Connelly in the comedy film Beautiful Joe. 2001 would find Jurnee co-starring as daughter to another popular actress, Angela Bassett, in the film Ruby's Bucket of Blood.
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Now an Emmy nominee herself, thanks to her role in "Lovecraft Country," Smollett has a lot of fun with her image these days. She often takes bold fashion risks during red carpet appearances and is known to give open, honest interviews in which she speaks her own truth, quite unapologetically. The show lasted just two seasons, but gained Smollett a lot of attention. For her portrayal of a sheltered house slave in the series about slaves attempting to escape on the Underground Railroad, she was nominated for two NAACP Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series awards. "It's so exciting to be a part of something that gives a voice to the voiceless like this. It puts a face to the thousands of people that had the courage to run," Smollett said in Cosmo of the importance of a show like "Underground." After her run on "Friday Night Lights," Jurnee Smollett played a young lawyer working in Las Vegas, on the series "The Defenders," which also starred Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell.
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And really strong, complex women who are not just the girlfriends or set dressing. The characters are women who are not just existing based on their relationships with their male counterparts in the show. They have storylines of their own, completely independent of the male storylines. So it's going to be about writers continuing to do that. We've made incredible progress, especially in television. For me, it's about there being more material.
The trio's efforts are successful, but despite Denise's part in that, she is quietly written out of the show — with Teddy leaving a season later — and Michelle is given a new group of friends. There is no mention of Denise after this episode, and one can only wonder if she went to a new school or moved out of San Francisco. During her run on the show, Denise proved to be a great friend to Michelle — though they do have a falling out in "Be Your Own Best Friend," it's quickly resolved — and someone she could rely on for support and fun. More recently, she starred in Lovecraft Country on HBO Max. Despite the show’s popularity, the show was canceled after one season.
She tells The Hollywood Reporter for its upcoming August issue that she was not going to audition. Thankfully, her mother encouraged her to do so regardless of the casting stipulations. She landed the role and audiences found her to be a fan favorite. Smollett has been acting since before she could even speak but landed her big break on Full House when she was just 4-years-old. She starred as Michelle Tanner’s outspoken best friend Denise Frazer and stole the hearts of the show’s millions of viewers each week as a recurring character.
He hopes to turn it into a museum that fans can visit. I will have to go check that out if it actually happens. This has naturally turned into heaps of fans swarming the San Francisco house, which didn’t sit quite well with Franklin’s neighbors, as the influx of fans disturbed the peace of the affluent, otherwise quiet community.
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The opening credits of Full House showed the family enjoying a lot of the attractions around town, including the Golden Gate Bridge, Alamo Square Park, and the Painted Ladies. The home shot to stardom along with the release of the original series featuring the fictional Tanner family, which ran on ABC from 1987 to 1995. He planned to remodel the interiors to make it even more like its on-screen counterpart and was issued a building permit in 2017.
To whom much is given, much is expected. Before I had my son, one of my mentors, Alfre Woodard, gave me a book called [Whole Child/Whole Parent]. It’s essentially about how you have to make sure you’re a whole, functioning human being. By not doing that, by thinking “I’m going to sacrifice this for my kid; I’m not going to do this because I’ve got to do this for my kid,” you’re actually hurting them in the long run.
That sense of revolution, that sense of community, that sense of not wanting to take it–I could name so many activists who embody that spirit. Marian Wright Edelman is a mentor and hero of mine. There are people doing amazing work on the frontlines. I think, sometimes, we might be a little disconnected and doing things separately, but that spirit still exists.
And so I personally felt this real desire to just create and be amongst creators and found such a kinship in the sessions with Rhett and Paul and Joe, and getting on set and working with Miles and Chris. I think we shared this desire to just create together. There’s such an element of isolation to the film. Going back and shooting during COVID, this was the first time I was dealing with the COVID protocol, and that’s a whole different way of working. It’s a different way of being in the space.
He was so open to ideas and to ways in which we could work on Lizzy. It was really, really exciting, the idea of working with a filmmaker like him. Armenian and Mediterranean cuisines are must-order ones at this restaurant. You can share nicely cooked grilled chicken, lamb and lamb cutlets with your friends and spend a nice time here. Full House Restaurant offers food delivery for the convenience of its clients. A lot of guests think that the staff is professional at this place.
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