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Jodie Sweetin credits Jason Bateman for helping her land her Full House role after working with him on Valerie
Sweetin joined Full House without an audition and played Stephanie Tanner from 1987 to 1995
She later reprised the role on Netflix’s Fuller House
Jodie Sweetin is sharing how she landed her role Full House — without an audition — and how Jason Bateman helped.
Appearing in a new episode of Hyperfixated with Joseph Shepherd, Sweetin, 44, was asked if it’s true that “Jason Bateman deserves partial credit for your career.”
“Sure,” she replied.
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Jason Bateman and Jodie Sweetin on Valerie
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Sweetin worked with Bateman, now 57, in her first on-screen role, on the show Valerie (later changed to The Hogan Family), which followed Valerie Harper as Valerie Hogan, a mother juggling raising three sons, her job at an auction house and her marriage to an absent pilot husband.
The three brothers were played by Bateman as David, Jeremy Licht as Mark and Danny Ponce as Willie.
Following her guest appearance on the show with Bateman, Sweetin landed her role on Full House without an audition. She played Stephanie Tanner on Full House from 1987 until 1995, reprising her role in Netflix’s Fuller House, which ran from 2016 until 2020.
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In another recent interview, Sweetin opened up about filming the first episode of Full House without Bob Saget, who would ultimately become the show’s fictional patriarch.
Speaking on an episode of Taboo’s Comics & Kicks, Sweetin shared that the show’s very first episode featured actor John Posey in the role of Danny Tanner, as Saget was at the time under contract to host CBS’ The Morning Program. The episode featuring Posey never aired, and Saget ultimately replaced him before the series debuted on ABC.
“We started doing the show and we’d shot an entire pilot actually with a different — with John Posey, who was a lovely human being and very sweet and wonderful,” Sweetin said on the podcast. “But Bob was the first choice for Danny.”
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