But also, it really hits home what’s important and what isn’t important. “I never would have imagined that I’d get this much time with him. Staying at home with the toddler, who is named after Stamos’ father, has been the silver lining of the past pandemic year, he said. Stamos is a relatively new dad himself, since his son Billy (with actress/model wife Caitlin McHugh, 34) is 3 years old. My dad had restaurants, and he would treat the busboy in the back room washing dishes the exact same way he would treat his best customer. “My dad was a big influence on me in many things. He gets it, in part, from lessons he learned from his father, the late restaurateur Bill Stamos. “There’s so many actors and actresses out there that need work.” John Stamos as Uncle Jesse in “Full House.” ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett C “I think the days of being a prima donna are out the door - the days of like, ‘I’m not coming out of my trailer!’ If someone does that, it’s like, ‘OK, next!’ ” he said. He attributes his industry longevity to his attitude. John Stamos in “ER.” ©NBC/Courtesy Everett Collectio Stamos occupies a rare space in Hollywood, since he’s been prominent for several decades with a host of hit shows under his belt (“General Hospital,” “ER,” “Full House,” “You”) and he hasn’t seen setbacks or faded into obscurity like many stars of ’80s and ’90s shows. He’s a hero of mine and a friend and someone I admire.” “And I FaceTimed them, and they just went on and on about how much they liked the show. “I was getting texts from a New York number I didn’t recognize, and I got one that said, ‘Pick up, it’s Howard and Beth!’ ” he said. Disney+Įventually, Stamos nailed it enough to impress Jerry West, as well as one of his idols: Howard Stern. In order to inhabit cranky coach Marvyn in “Big Shot,” Stamos said he had to stop himself from getting to know the cast. It was hard for me, because that’s not how I usually work,” he said. I didn’t want to know the girls very well, I wanted to learn about the girls as Marvyn did. “I had no outside interaction with the cast. Once he was on set, Stamos decided the best way to inhabit the crotchety coach was to keep to himself.
“He’s unlikable, he’s not a people person, he has no charm.” “It was nothing like anything I had ever done, and it was nothing like me,” said Stamos. The character of Marvyn was outside of his comfort zone, too. “He told me it’s called ‘practice,’ not ‘rehearsal,’ ” said Stamos.īut it wasn’t just the subject matter that unnerved the actor. Disney+ĭespite reservations, Stamos dove into research, he said, spending time with NBA legend Jerry West, who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1980. Of all things! I said, ‘I’m a player?’ and they said, ‘No, you’re a coach.’ And I said, ‘OK, great … what does a coach do?’ ” John Stamos as Marvyn in “Big Shot,” with Jessalyn Gilsig (right) as assistant coach Holly. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I love David Kelley! Am I playing a lawyer, is it like one of those dark characters on ‘Big Little Lies?’ And they were like, ‘It’s a show about basketball.’ And my heart just sunk. “I got a call from my agent saying, ‘You’re getting an offer on the new David Kelley show,’ ” said Stamos.
#Hot shots basketball series
Premiering Friday, April 16, on Disney+ (with new episodes out weekly), the sports dramedy series centers on Marvyn Korn (Stamos), a men’s college basketball coach who ends up having to work at an all-girls private high school as a last resort after his temper costs him his NCAA job - much to his dismay. “It was harder for me to learn basketball lingo than medical lingo when I was on ‘ER’ playing a doctor, I’m not kidding.” “I was a band geek in school, I’m a band geek now - I never played sports, I didn’t watch sports,” Stamos, 57, told The Post. John Stamos wasn’t initially jazzed about playing a basketball coach on his latest show, “Big Shot.” How ‘Nine Perfect Strangers’ compares to sister show ‘Big Little Lies’ Michelle Pfeiffer’s Pacific Palisades home sells for $25 million Ridiculous twist throws Netflix’s ‘Anatomy of a Scandal’ off the rails
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