Lori Loughlin returns to television in the fall starring in two Hallmark movies and spoke to Enstars about her upcoming films, her career as a television actress and even the possibility of a Full House reunion.

The actress stars in Garage Sale Mystery as an antique dealer and garage sale lover that plays detective by trying to find the criminal behind a string of burglaries in her neighborhood. When Calls the Heart will feature her playing a 1910 teacher in a frontier town that falls in love with a royal.

Loughlin spoke about the process of preparing for such drastically different roles.

"When Calls the Heart is based on a series of books and it's a period piece so reading the books and also researching a little bit about that early time when the pioneers were first settling in West, helps for that role," she said. "And then Garage Sale Mystery...you know, just doing a little shopping at garage sales, doing a little antiquing just to see what the crowd is; what they sell at those types of sales."

As far as playing a mother on screen, which she does in the contemporary piece, Loughlin said, "that is something I am quite familiar with" considering she has two teenage daughters with her husband, fashion designer Massimo Giannulli.

Loughlin started her television career in her teens on a daytime soap opera before moving on to television films and guest-starring roles. She originally gravitated toward television because she "liked the stability of that lifestyle:" years ago filming was primarily done locally in Los Angeles and she enjoyed being able to go home at the end of the day. 

Many remember her as Becky Katsopolis in Full House from 1988-1995, but her career as a TV actress spans way past the show. She has starred in 90210, In Case of Emergency, Summerland, and Spin City, to name a few. When asked if there was a role over the years that she identified with off-screen, she chose her character Debbie Wilson in CW's 90210.

"Working on the new 90210 and on the brink of having -- now my girls are teenagers, but at the time that I was doing that show -- on the brink of having teenagers and playing a mom of teenagers, was a little close to home," she said. "Not in a bad way. It was just familiar. The lifestyle, [it] felt like we had parallel lines in a way."

She admitted that Full House "quite a bit" helped her make a mark in the industry as an actress. She never expected the fan base it garnered but said she is proud to be a part of the support the show receives until this day. Commenting on a reunion with her former cast members if there was to be a Full House movie, she said, "it would just depend on what the script was and if I thought it was any good and who else from the cast would participate."

"I think if we were gonna do it, everyone should do it," she added. "I never like when they do those reunion shows and one person doesn't show up and they recast the part. I hate that. [But] if I think if we were all doing it and it was a good piece, then I would certainly think it would be fun."

The Full House cast members keep in touch and she said they went on Aug. 26 to a birthday party for John Stamos, who played her on-screen husband Jesse Katsopolis.  

Watch Loughlin in Garage Sale Mystery on Sept. 14 and When Calls the Heart on Oct. 12, both on Hallmark.

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