how are you good how are you good welcome to the program thank you let me just check
this you you are you are ashley ashley and you're mary kate yes yeah how about that
thank you this is uh this is an amazing story because i know that you're both the 17.
right now what kind of twins are you how many kinds of twins are there
we're fraternal twins fraternal twins yeah and the other kind would be identical
identical when you're i think identical to come from the same egg and fraternal i think
yeah i never understood that myself but the important thing is you're both here that's right
and then you started like i said when you're nine months old isn't it isn't that crazy does that
seem crazy to you now that it all began when you were just infants really yeah especially you know
our our parents really didn't we never been on any other audition before it was just for full house
and um it was just kind of random that we actually even went on the full house audition right and
did your folks want you to be on a television show or it just wasn't an accident or what happened our
mom's friend took us in and we didn't cry when they held us and that's why they picked us really
yeah now did your mom know that the the friend was taking your kids in for the audition well she came
with us but it was just it was one of those things where um you know she didn't really care she
didn't really want it and you know we're really lucky that we never had those types of parents
uh and so in in the beginning for some reason i guess national security they they they didn't want
people to know that the uh part michelle right was played by two people seriously we never we
never heard that before never before on the show someone said yeah no one they didn't want you to
know there's two of them and i had no clue i mean but we did have we had teeth problem
i mean like because you'd lose a tooth and then i always lost my teeth after ashley but we were
playing the same person so we were always at the dentist getting fake teeth and it is at a certain
point and i understand because the the part of the nine month old there's rules about working
a kid like 18 20 hours a day when a nine month old right yeah even now we can only work 10 and a half
hours until we're 18. is that right yeah i was not aware of that but you had to continue to do
the two of you were doing one part as the child got older is that right that's what they do yeah
on most shows sometimes they even get triplets or whatever because they can only work i don't even
know but it gets you know the long the hours get longer we have the same problem with paul
got you oh okay fine and and so so now this was the the show with the bob saget we have
the picture of it right here are you guys still in touch with any of these folks on the show yes we
are we're very close they actually most of them came to the premiere well that was very nice
you're still in touch with these people because they're literally those the folks you grew up with
this is like your family right here yeah and was that a good experience over all of it now
when when you get married and have kids very own would you want them to go through that
same situation you mean living wait being nine months old and having a tv show
i don't understand are you saying no like being on a show growing up
oh it was for i would never take my child probably on and on in on in
on a dish on on
when you guys were nine months old right you were on a television show and it worked out
and and here is your television family right so you're saying that we ever take our kids on on an
audition for the same experience right was was in your mind that experience uh positive enough that
you might consider doing the same when you get married and have children of your own would you
give them to a tv show probably not probably not unless they had an amazing experience and
we know that we were very lucky because you know most of the tv you don't know if a lot
of people who are still you know in contact after you know show that you don't hear a lot of really
good stories you know about the kids who come off of this well that's the other thing and
i think that's to your credit and probably to the credit of your parents because uh a lot of
the tv stars come and go and they're just going kids stars or most of them are in prison really
and because something something goes haywire but but now when when the uh when the full house show
goes away i then you began the second part of your career there was two more tv shows and then
these these movies now now who figured all of that out for you guys because at that point you
were eight nine years old who decided that was going to happen um i guess it was a mix between
my dad and our parents and robert thorne who um was brought in when we were younger probably i
think six years old or so and you made how many movies prior to this one oh see straight to video
yeah um 20 something 20 something you've made 20 movies i think something like that that's
unbelievable isn't it so so you guys really have just been working night and day and then on and
on haven't you yeah but at the same time you know we've had you know the regular experience
as we've you know gone to school our entire life and it's always been a number one part
and what is that experience like when you go to school and oh there's mary kate and ashley it's
kind of like that oh there's miracles actually i mean everyone's kind of used to it that's good
and and so so now uh well you you're both like uh nearly 18. right is that right when is the
birthday june 13th june 13th now when you become 18 will you then take over your your destiny and
show business or will that continue to be handled by your folks and your friends i mean i think i
mean as we got older we've we've we've always you know known that no is a full sentence and you know
no no is a full sentence how do you apply that what does that mean exactly no is a
full that means you know if you're younger and you don't want to work you say no yeah
no yeah have you done that many times in your life yeah so as you get older you have control over you
know the sort of things that you want to do and i think that's you know as we've gotten older we've
definitely had control of everything that we've wanted to do yeah uh and and you seem remarkably
uh poised and composed and uh just sort of in control of yourselves and you're only 17 because
you know when i when i was 17 i couldn't make a fist honestly
but so now now when you're when you're 18 and you'll you'll be of legal age and worldly young
women in show business are you looking forward to that or are you just going to go nuts then
i'm going to go crazy yeah now going to jail
going to jail it's a remarkable story because among other things you've accrued a fortune close
to a billion dollars is that about right together you're worth nearly a billion bucks really i don't
know that oh i did a little research and you guys are all right you're doing okay you can take a day
off now and then if you want but now when i was uh going on and on about this uh olsen twins thing is
did that happen you're no longer twins you this is the funniest thing this is probably the question
we've ever we've been asked this question so much lately it was some silly thing that came out for
premiere magazine and it was the press release probably 10 years ago is that right yeah 10 years
ago and they just got a hold of it so something to talk about you still are the olsen twins or
you are not the olsen twins well we are twins yes actually not wait a minute we're not twins anymore
you're not twins anymore no we have different mothers actually yeah
no i you know i mean it's just nice to be known by your name i guess yeah yeah you can call us
olsen twins i mean it's not it's not we don't get offended at all it's not something ashley
we don't get offended at all it's just something that people are having fun talking about you
have other brothers and sisters yes any more twins or anything like that no no are you in
one of those twins club where you go to conventions and hang around other people
it is kind of creepy isn't it yeah uh might be fun though um and what about the prom will you
go to the prom no i'm missing it this year really and why are you missing it
um snl next week oh you're hosting yesterday yeah well now see it's not interesting because
a lot of high school kids don't get to host yes that's what we figure so we're going to host
snl instead yeah well that's very exciting yeah it is very exciting very nervous yeah
uh well yeah it'll be a good time i think you'll enjoy yourself now tell people about
the new york minute because it opens here on friday go see it friday yeah and go see it
and it has some kind of a story though right yes it's uh well not really no it's um an action
comedy actually that takes place in a single day in new york and everything that can go
wrong goes wrong it has a good cast in it great cast yeah we're very excited we got eugene levy
right andy richter andy richter daryl hammond um riley smith jared padalecki uh who else
great i mean amazing cast and one of you is is goes nuts and is a bad girl and the other one is
not nuts and is a good girl is that right yeah well she's a little my character's a little
nuts a little nuts okay ashley it's a pleasure meeting you thank you very much mary kate nice
to meet you i hope you come back and good luck with the movie and anything you'd like to ask me
are you going to go see the movie you mean see it again see it again good
well enjoy it thank you have fun nice to have here