Kat Dennings Remembers Bob Saget 3 Years After His Death: ‘He Was Very Protective’

Shifting Gears star Kat Dennings reflected on her time working with Bob Saget three years after his death.

Dennings, 38, said Saget was “lovely” to work with and remembered his “protective” nature in an interview with People published on Saturday, January 19.

The pair worked together in 2001, when Dennings was 15 and Saget was 44. They played father-daughter duo Matt and Sarah Stewart on the show Raising Dad, which ran for one season.

“God bless him. I’m so sad that he’s gone,” Dennings continued.

“What I remember was he was very protective of me because I was a young actress and he had daughters. So he was very sweet to me and very protective and very kind,” she added. “I only remember very, very nice memories of him.”

Saget was best known for playing Danny Tanner on Full House from 1987 until 1995, and later reprised the role on Fuller House from 2016 until 2020. He also notably voiced Ted in How I Met Your Mother and hosted America’s Funniest Home Videos for nearly 200 episodes.

Saget unexpectedly died on January 9, 2022 at the age of 65. His cause of death was later revealed to be blunt head trauma after an unwitnessed fall.

Dennings’ recent interview isn’t the first time she has addressed Saget’s death.

When news of the star’s death first broke, Dennings paid tribute on social media. She wrote on Twitter, now X: “Oh god. Bob Saget!!! The loveliest man.”

“I was his TV daughter for one season and he was always so kind and protective. So so sorry for his family,” she added.

Since working with Saget, Dennings has gone on to enjoy notable roles in TV and film. She played Max Black in the sitcom 2 Broke Girls, which ran from 2011 until 2017, before going on to star as Darcy Lewis in the Thor movies and WandaVision.

More recently, Dennings stars opposite Tim Allen in the new sitcom Shifting Gears. Speaking to Us Weekly earlier this month, Dennings said she had an “instant” connection with Allen, who plays her dad on the show.

“For some reason it worked pretty immediately — maybe because I’ve grown up watching him for so much of my life, but it just worked. It felt very organic,” she recalled.

“And as [filming has] progressed, our scenes are so funny, if I do say so myself. The arguments are my favorite scenes to play because I have no fear. There’s no fear for either of us. We just absolutely go for it and it’s so much fun.”