"It was my middle name," Joey said via Entertainment Weekly. "So, I was named after our dad, and our grandfather on our dad's side. And in the early '80s, it was like, 'No one can pronounce Mignogna. That's not a name people will say.'"
"But what I quickly learned on set is that the kids were actually way more together than the adults on set. We have allowed ourselves in the years to fall apart completely and to be unprofessional and lazy! And the children are not; they were amazing and they inspired all of us to be better than we thought we could be."