Jodie Sweetin performed Stephanie Tanner on Full Home from 1987 to 1995, and the previous youngster actress credit two of her costars, Bob Saget and Dave Coulier, for serving to instill confidence in her at a younger age.
Throughout a current interview with Individuals, Sweetin opened up concerning the affect the 2 males — who portrayed her onscreen father, Danny Tanner, and honorary uncle, Joey Gladstone, within the beloved sitcom — had on her attempting stand-up comedy.
“I’ve discovered a confidence, and truthfully, it got here from Bob and Dave,” she defined. “It got here from Bob and Dave all my life, encouraging me that I used to be humorous, even after I was a child.”
In 2016, Sweetin, Saget and Coulier reunited for the Full Home spinoff Fuller Home, which ran by June 2020, the place the “silly jokes” amongst them continued.
“Stand-up comedians, I’ve grown up round them, and there’s nothing that makes me happier than sitting round with a bunch of comedians speaking s***,” she instructed Individuals.
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In 2023, Sweetin talked about that she obtained into stand-up comedy not lengthy after Saget died in January 2022 at 65 from blunt head trauma after a fall.
“Bob all the time believed in me,” she instructed At present. “He’d all the time say, ‘You’re so humorous. Your timing’s so nice.’ And after he handed … a pair alternatives got here up and I began doing it. Individuals had been like, ‘Bob can be so happy with you. He can be so happy with you.’”
Along with Saget and Coulier serving to lay a basis for her confidence, Sweetin mentioned age has additionally boosted her on this space.
“I feel additionally being 43, I simply don’t give a s*** anymore,” she instructed Individuals. “So I’m a lot extra snug in my very own pores and skin that there’s nothing that I’m afraid to speak about or afraid to place up there or make enjoyable of or poke enjoyable at.”
Just lately Sweetin and one other Full Home costar, Andrea Barber (Kimmy Gibbler), spoke a few unhealthy behavior that obtained Saget in hassle with their mothers. (Plus, a special unhealthy behavior from Coulier that affected the kid actors Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit.)
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