The actor trick-or-treats down memory lane and looks back on filming this 1993 TV classic.
“It just hadn’t come up yet.
I had played a lot of scheming young business guys, but this was my first dad role.
Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen in ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble.'.Everett Collection
I can’t start playing dads all the time, I’m 30.’
So it probably pushed me out of the hot dad spectrum for a few years.”
ERIC MCCORMACK:[Laughs] Always happy to talk about movies I did 30 years ago!
Eric McCormack in ‘Double, Double, Toil and Trouble.'.Warner Bros.
It doesn’t make a man feel young.
And I didn’t even know if it had a life anymore.
It’s such an iconic Halloween movie that, for millennials especially, was so formative.
And now that it’s streaming, new generations can discover it.
I just wish I had better hair in it.
Have you ever heard about this?
I have never really been asked about being their hot movie dad.
No, I love that!
It went all the way toWill & Grace.
It finally happened later.
Who else is a hot movie dad for the Olsen twins?
Tom Amandes, Eric Lutes, Matt McCoy… it’s a small but very exclusive club.
[Laughs] I love that.
The glasses and the hair were a winning combo, clearly.
It always happens more than I ever thought it would.
I was a theater guy myself really, and I was just starting in television so I worked nights.
I hadn’t watchedFull House, let’s put it that way.
So they were new to me.
He said, “Yeah, I did it a little longer.”
I said, “Fair enough.
I think I was their dad only two-and-a-half weeks.”
But they were adorable and incredibly well-behaved and sweet.
[Laughs] It was kind of amazing to see them as grown-ups.
How did they surprise you during filming?
What was so fun is that they were playing the same character onFull House, right?
And now they actually got to be twins.
I think that they were having fun with each other in a lot of those scenes.
And they knew their lines and they were just little professionals.
But we were very aware of who they were.
Like, I could change the course of humanity if I don’t drive properly here."
It’s a good thing you drove safely.
[Laughs] I know, right?
I think she quite enjoyed playing that part.
Put that out!"
We ran away like we were Hansel and Gretel.
Oh, she totally was.
Did you keep in contact with any of the cast after filming?
I don’t think I saw Kelli Fox for another 20 years, honestly.
We ran into each other at some theater event in Vancouver.
You made an old man cry."
[Laughs] It was pretty awesome.
Have you ever gone back and watchedDouble, Double, Toil and Trouble?
I’ve got to be honest, I never have.
I’m going to this year.
I’m going to go to my Hulu account and watch it finally.
[Laughs] But no, I never have.
It’s hard to go back and see… certain looks.
Maybe I was terrified to go back and watch it.
Wow, I’m excited to see what you think of it 30 years later.
[Laughs] So am I.
