Fuller House's Candace Cameron-Bure reveals that they didn't want the show's main male cast to be portrayed as simply stupid guys. Aside from reprising her Full House role as the oldest Tanner sister, DJ, the actress also served as a producer in the Netflix spinoff. Given her position, she's also privy to other creative conversations regarding the show which she used to get some of her suggestions out there. That includes the project veering away from depicting Steve (Scott Weinger), Jimmy (Adam Hagenbuch), and Fernando (Juan Pablo Di Pace) as simpletons.
With its final midseason ending with Steve's surprise marriage proposal to DJ, it's clear that the remaining nine episodes of Fuller House would be devoted to planning their wedding. By this time, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber) were already engaged to Jimmy and Fernando, making it a bigger occasion when the girls decided they want to tie the knot at the same time. With that set, the Netflix project gave additional screen time to the guys as they also prepare for their big day, which includes a trip to their designer, as well as a bachelor party. Cameron-Bure revealed that she, alongside her fellow female cast members Sweetin and Gibbler fought "not to make the men on our show stupid."
In an interview with Insider after Fuller House's final episodes dropped on Netflix, the actress shared that it was important for her that Steve, Jimmy, and Fernando are given substance and not just used for comedic purposes. Candace-Cameron admits that while not all of her suggestions for the show's last season came to fruition, this was something that she's quite adamant about when she talked to the writers as they wrote the offshoot's last year.
"It was so important for us to show the audience why [D.J. and Steve] were right for each other because there wasn't much we ever knew about Steve other than he wrestled in high school and he loves sandwiches. It was a conversation that I had with the writers through the whole season. I was like, 'We don't want these women who are all smart, intelligent, loving women to be marrying these men that all either seem dumb or just out of their minds at times.' I didn't win all those battles, but we saw glimpses of why we love these men. Sometimes they would choose the comedy over some of the realism of the show, but we were like, 'These are smart ladies. They're not going to marry stupid men, so let's not make them that way. Let's not make them dumb like they have no clue, otherwise they would never be with them.'"
Unlike Steve, who was initially introduced in Full House, Jimmy and Fernando are new characters debuted in Fuller House. Jimmy is supposedly Kimmy's younger brother although he's never mentioned in the original show. Like her sister, he's with his own quirks and is often depicted as slow and obtuse. Interestingly, Stephanie falls in love with him leading to their wedding, with their first-born Danielle and another baby on the way. Meanwhile, Fernando is a retired race car driver who has his own sense of humor. How exactly he and Kimmy got together is unknown, but they were briefly separated after he purportedly had an affair. Eventually, he wins his wife back.
Admittedly, the portrayal of the Fuller House men in the last season isn't as bad as it was in the show's earlier years. Back then, they're mostly included in the narrative for comedic purposes - particularly Jimmy and Fernando. While they still could've done a better job fleshing the characters out, at least they didn't make it worse by further dumbing them down until the very end. With Uncle Monty's business venture with Steve acting as an investor on top of being a podiatrist, all three characters have something going for them that makes them decent husband-material for the girls.
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Source: Insider
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