Jodie Sweetin Reveals Why Bob Saget Wasn’t In The Original ‘Full House’ Pilot

MEGA 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. Jodie Sweetin Opens Up About Filming The ‘Full House’ Pilot With Another Actor Instead Of Bob Saget “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 MEGA 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