He’s actually one of my favorite directors I’ve ever worked with. He was so talented and he won an Oscar,, when he was in college. I showed up four hours early every day to get it done, and we weren’t as advanced back then and there was no CGI, so if you watch the movie, you might see little cracks here and there.īut Bob was a fantastic director and I feel like not a lot of people know that.
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We went to Tom and Bari Burman, preeminent prosthetic makeup artists, to create the look. We had to do extensive prosthetic makeup because Gay had the systemic type of scleroderma that really shows on the face. There was a wonderful young actor playing Adam, her son, who is a real estate agent now in L.A. We shot in Vancouver because it was cheaper, and I was basically playing a version of Bob’s sister, Gay. Bob said, “I really would love it if you could do this.” I said, “Oh for Sharon, I will do anything.” So, Bob wrote For Hope with Susan Rice, who is still a good friend, and he also directed it. But Bob and Brad Grey, who used to manage both of us, called me one day. At the time, there was a big stigma against disease-of-the-week movies and you really didn’t want to be in one.
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Bob and I share the same dark sense of humor and we used to joke, “Don’t go to the benefit because you’ll get scleroderma.”Īfter Gay died from scleroderma, Bob came up with an idea to make a television movie about her. A year later, she was diagnosed with scleroderma, which was bizarre.
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You may have heard this story by now but Bob was asked to host it and - since he was close with his family - his parents and his sister, Gay, went to the event. We just kept going to the events because Sharon was so magnetic and such a powerful human being and the events were a perfect combination of food, fun and a good cause for a remarkable person. It was 1989 and I remember Rosie O’Donnell was one of the comedians who performed. Neither of us knew anything about scleroderma, we just went because chef Susan Feniger invited us and we liked her food. Not long after Sharon Monsky started the Scleroderma Research Foundation, Bob and I went to the second event they had. “There’s going to be something missing for a long time.Judge Temporarily Blocks Release of Records Related to Bob Saget's Death
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It didn’t matter who you were, your status … he somehow took his TV family and made them his real family, which is unheard of,” he continued. really did take care of everybody … If you need a doctor, if you need a lawyer, if you need a pastrami sandwich at 3 in the morning because some girl just broke your heart, Bob was that guy. He loved making people happy. Ross noted that Saget “treated everyone like family.
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he laughed and he spread joy, and his protest against the cruelty of these things was that he was going to smile and spread love and be childlike and be innocent and be loving.” “He had every reason to be the guy in the back of the bar, bitter. “He had every excuse under the sun to be cynical, to be upset, to be distrusting,” Mayer said. Saget thereafter was committed to finding a cure for the disease that killed her. Mayer talked about Saget’s commitment to family, which was cemented by the death of his sister, Gay, in 1994. “I’ve never known a human being on this Earth who could give that much love, individually and completely, to that many people in a way that made each person feel like he was a main character in their life and they were a main character in his life.” Bob Saget Interview Taped Last Month To Air Friday On 'CBS Mornings'