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Full House<\/em><\/a> alum Jodie Sweetin<\/strong><\/a> is sharing details of filming the show’s pilot with a different actor in the role of Danny Tanner.<\/p>\n

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Actor John Posey<\/strong>, 70, played the Tanner patriarch in the original unaired pilot. However, according to Sweetin, Bob Saget<\/strong><\/a> was always creator Jeff Franklin<\/strong>‘s first choice for the part.<\/p>\n

“We shot an entire pilot, actually, with a different dad \u2026 with John Posey, who was a lovely human being and very sweet and wonderful,” Sweetin, 44, recalled on a recent episode of Black Eyed Peas rapper Taboo<\/strong>‘s “Comics & Kicks” podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Franklin hoped to cast Saget, the late comedian was already committed to a role as an on-air contributor on CBS’ The Morning Program<\/em>. Thankfully, Saget eventually became free and the episode was reshot.<\/p>\n

“Bob was the first choice for Danny, and so when he was no longer doing the show that was conflicting with Full House<\/em>, we reshot the entire pilot,” Sweetin said. “Jeff Franklin had to fight so hard because that’s a lot of money. He was like, \u2018I just know it. I just know this is who we need as the dad.’ And he was right.”<\/p>\n

Sweetin played Stephanie Tanner, the middle daughter of Saget’s Danny Tanner, in the hit ABC sitcom from 1987 to 1995. She later reprised the role in Netflix’s Fuller House<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Posey, meanwhile, went on to have a successful acting career, even appearing in several episodes of MTV’s Teen Wolf<\/em> with his son, Tyler Posey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Posey recalled the casting process for Danny in a 2014 interview with Yahoo<\/a>, explaining, “From what I was told, they were looking all over the country for people and couldn’t find a guy, although I later found out that Bob Saget and Paul Reiser<\/strong> were the two guys they were after first, and they were both unavailable. They were obligated to other shows. How you go from those guys to me is kind of a mystery, because we couldn’t be more different.”<\/p>\n

“But anyway, they did, and we shot it. 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,” he added.<\/p>\n

After the show was picked up for a full season, Posey said he learned that ABC was testing Saget for Danny, and the role was recast.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never spoken to Bob,” Posey said of Saget, who died at age 65<\/a> in 2022, at the time. “John Stamos<\/strong> is a friend. Dave Coulier<\/strong> is a friend. I know that the young girls were all a little bit shattered when it happened because we developed a pretty good relationship. Candace [Cameron Bure]<\/strong>, she was very upset that [it] fell apart. It was hard for the kids to have to do this all over again with somebody they didn’t know.”<\/p>\n

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This story was originally published June 29, 2026 at 6:07 AM.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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