Actress Jodie Sweetin is opening up about the very beginning of “Full House,” revealing that another well-known actor almost played the role of Danny Tanner instead of Bob Saget. In a new episode of “Taboo’s Comics & Kicks” podcast, Sweetin, 44, said that after the production company shot the pilot, they wound up replacing actor John Posey with Saget, explaining that the “America’s Funniest Home Videos” host was the creator’s original choice for the role to begin with.
“We shot an entire pilot, actually, with a different dad … with John Posey, who was a lovely human being and very sweet and wonderful,” Sweetin confessed on the podcast, adding that while Saget was the actor the production team wanted, he was busy with another commitment.
Sweetin went on to say that “Full House” creator Jeff Franklin went to bat to have the pilot reshot with Saget after the network decided to send the show to series. “He was like, ‘I just know it. I just know this is who we need as the dad.’ And he was right,” Sweetin shared.
Posey Recalled Being Recast In ‘Full House’ After The Series Was Greenlit
During a previous interview with Yahoo, Posey, whose son is actor Tyler Posey of MTV’s “Teen Wolf,” opened up about the process of filming the “Full House” pilot, revealing that he learned he’d been recast with Saget months after shooting.
“And, you know, in all honesty, if somebody were to ask me now, I have no idea whether I was good in that pilot or not. It was all very new to me,” he said at the time.
Posey confessed that he was a bit in his head while on the “Full House” set because he grew up with a different style of comedy than what viewers saw on the beloved sitcom.
“So I can’t say that I was the most experienced guy on the set, plus you’re holding a baby in your arms the whole time, so I was learning about this, going along but I, overall I thought everything was pretty decent. And the show went. [ABC] picked it up with me, and everything was fine, until about a month or so later when I heard otherwise,” he said.
Jodie Sweetin Previously Joked About Returning To ‘Full House’ For A Third Spin-Off
Sweetin played the role of Stephanie Tanner in the ABC sitcom from 1987 to 1995. She later returned to the series in 2016 to reprise her role in the Netflix spin-off, “Fuller House.”
According to a previous report from The Blast, Sweetin said that she’d be more than open to returning to the series a third time if the opportunity ever presented itself.
“Absolutely. I love working with them,” she said in 2022. “It’s like, ‘Do you wanna go back and have fun and work with the people that you love, that you’ve known your whole life?’ Of course!”
The spin-off ended in 2020, and Sweetin joked years later that she could see hers, Andrea Barber’s, and Candace Cameron Bure’s characters filming a “Golden Girls” type of show.
“If you would have asked me twenty years ago if I would be coming back someday to play Stephanie Tanner as an adult, I would have been like, I don’t think that is going to happen. Who knows, in another 10, 15, 20 years we will do Fullest House, and I get to finally portray my Bea Arthur wannabe as one of The Golden Girls,” she said.
Jodie Sweetin Went To Extreme Lengths To Try And Shed What She Believed Was A ‘Stuck-Up’ Persona In High School
Another report from The Blast details Sweetin’s recent confession about her attempts to relate to her high school classmates at the height of her “Full House” fame.
“I had this weird, I’ll say, I had this, particularly after the show ended, like, in high school, there was this strange feeling that I had, because everyone assumed I was quote unquote a TV star. So, like, you know, the rumor before you would even start at a school was like, ‘Oh, she’s a stuck-up b-tch,’” she said.
According to Sweetin, she tried to course correct by acting “worse than them” and by “getting more f-cked up” than them with drugs and alcohol.
Sweetin previously spoke candidly about her past substance abuse, revealing that it began after her first drink at just 14-years-old at co-star Bure’s wedding.
Later, Sweetin said that her behavior spun so far out of control that her peers began expressing concern for her, advising her to “settle down” before things reached the point of no return.
Saget Died In 2022
In January 2022, Saget was found dead in his hotel room at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando from blunt head trauma following an “unwitnessed fall,” according to PEOPLE.
His memorial service was attended by his close friends and family, including his “Full House” co-stars, John Stamos, Bure, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Sweetin, Dave Coulier, and Lori Loughlin.
