Some tv characters are so iconic that the actors who play them will ceaselessly be identified for that function. That’s positively the case for Jodie Sweetin (and possibly the remainder of the Full Home forged, too). Whereas Sweetin was merely 5 years previous when she first portrayed Stephanie Tanner on the ABC sitcom, it’s a job that has adopted her for practically 40 years, and I like her optimistic tackle how she got here to phrases with that.
Jodie Sweetin has appeared on the Hallmark schedule a number of instances lately with tasks like The Jane Mysteries, and he or she starred within the Lifetime film Dateless to Harmful: My Son’s Secret Life, which premiered on the 2025 TV schedule in June. Regardless of what number of TV films she does, although, Sweetin is aware of the reality. She informed Folks:
I might be Stephanie Tanner ceaselessly. And I’ve come to be actually okay with that over the past 20 years.
Stephanie was the center sister on Full Home, falling between Candace Cameron Bure’s DJ and the Olsen twins’ Michelle. A part of what endeared audiences to the saccharine-sweet sitcom was with the ability to watch the younger actresses develop up actually in entrance of our eyes over the course of eight seasons (which might be streamed with both a Hulu subscription, Disney+ subscription or HBO Max subscription).
Nonetheless, that additionally made them sort of synonymous with these roles, for higher or worse. For Jodie Sweetin, she’s determined it was for the higher, and he or she defined how reprising the function really led her to department out in her profession:
I sort of walked away from the enterprise sooner or later in my late 20s and was working in different fields, and I used to be completely effective. I used to be completely happy. I might’ve continued on that, however getting the possibility to return again and do Fuller and convey Stephanie again to life was wonderful and fantastic. It additionally gave me the chance to do different issues as a result of I believe lastly individuals had been like, ‘Oh, you are an grownup now.’
Fuller Home featured a lot of the identical forged (however notably not Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, for good purpose) and centered round a lately widowed DJ and her three sons. In keeping with Jodie Sweetin, giving individuals the possibility to see her as an grownup — even when she was nonetheless technically Stephanie Tanner — kick-started a brand new chapter in her performing profession.
Along with some TV films and actuality competitors exhibits, Jodie Sweetin has additionally began a rewatch podcast with Full Home and Fuller Home co-star Andrea Barber, which has even additional deepened her appreciation for the followers who proceed to indicate curiosity within the Tanner household after so a few years.
Jodie Sweetin probably can’t do something to vary the truth that she’ll at all times be often called Stephanie Tanner, however she will be able to management how she feels about her childhood character following her into maturity. I like how she’s chosen to embrace it.
Along with Full Home being out there to stream on a number of companies, Fuller Home might be accessed with a Netflix subscription.