Jodie Sweetin: How She Feels About Her ‘Full House’ Co-Stars 30 Years Later—Plus Hallmark+ Latest (EXCLUSIVE)

With Hallmark+ streaming service set to launch on September 10th, Jodie Sweetin is getting in on the fun with not one big movie premiere, but three – and she’s also got a rom-com coming to Hallmark Channel! The Full House alum previews new installments of The Jane Mysteries and her new feel-good flick with hunk Corey Sevier, The Heiress and the Handyman.

Sweetin also tells First for Women what she really thinks of Full House grownups John Stamos, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, and Lori Loughlin, what it was like to become the grownup on Fuller House, and what was so challenging about her most recent Hallmark costars.

Plus, we have everything you need to know about Hallmark+ streaming service, including how to sign up.

Three The Jane Mysteries movies promise new cases, songs and looks

In last year’s The Jane Mysteries: Inheritance Lost, Jodie Sweetin played a singer who inherited a detective agency and quickly found herself solving a case with hunky Detective John Cameron, played by Stephen Huszar. 

Now, they’re reuniting for three new adventures – A Deadly Prescription, Murder at Moseby, and Too Much to Lose, which debut on Hallmark+ on Tuesday, September 10, and Thursday, September 19 and 26, respectively.  

“I can't wait for people to see the next three Jane Mysteries,” Sweetin cheers. “We get into Jane’s history and get to see her human side in A Deadly Prescription, which is about a young man who was wrongfully accused. That’s one of the things I love about The Jane Mysteries – that she goes back and fights for people that didn't have a voice or the resources and got overlooked.”

And while there’s plenty of ‘Will They or Won’t They’ chemistry between Jane and Detective John, the mystery, the music, and the fashion come first.

 “Stephen plays a great detective and Paris Jefferson, who plays my Aunt Sadie, is a doll,” she says. “We have a great little trio, working together. 

“Each of the movies also has a new, original song,” she adds. “It's been so much fun to work with creative, talented people on writing original music and getting to play with it and make it my own. Plus, Jane always pulls off fabulous vintage outfits and Sadie looks like the diva that she is – so yes, we will be serving looks!”

Everything to know about Hallmark’s The Heiress and the Handyman

Those who don’t sign up for Hallmark+ can still catch Sweetin in The Heiress and the Handyman, which premieres on Hallmark Channel on Saturday. In her new rom-com, her character June loses her family fortune to a cryptocurrency crisis and suddenly finds herself stranded in New York City with no jet, no home, and no life skills… until she discovers the deed to a farm.

“Lo and behold, the heiress winds up with a roof over her head, but she has no idea how to make a sandwich, let alone feed a pig or take care of a farm,” Sweetin sets up. “But she decides that this is going to be a new chapter in her life. She’s going to see where this goes.”

Enter June’s handsome new neighbor, Bart, played by Corey Sevier 

“He takes her under his proverbial little chicken wing and teaches her all there is to know about running a small farm with chickens and show pigs, growing produce, and making apple pies,” she teases. “It’s a sweet, fun story. “ 

Jodie Sweetin dishes on her challenging Hallmark costars

As with all Hallmark projects, there are lessons to be learned from our heroine – but working on this particular film, those lessons were not Sweetin’s big takeaways. 

“What I learned was: You can put a pig in a movie, but you can't make it do what you wrote,” she cracks. “Pigs are adorable and sweet, but they are also 300 pounds and are like, ‘Yeah, I want to do that.’ We just had to roll with it, and we got a lot of silly, magical stuff on camera that only happens when you're working with farm animals.”

 Thankfully, her leading man had better manners – and training! – than the animals.

“Corey was a great costar, and an absolute doll,” Sweetin raves. “Hallmark fans who haven’t seen him yet are just going to fall in love with him.

“He was also a child actor,” she adds of Sevier, who starred in the 90's Lassie reboot. “Like me, he grew up onset and had a relatively positive experience, surrounded by people he liked working with. It was fun to get to work with somebody who has that shared perspective – because that is definitely not always the case!”

Reflecting on Full House and Stephanie Tanner

Sweetin is of course referring to her run as Stephanie on Full House – a role she held from the age of 5 to 13 and then returned to in 2016 for the Netflix reboot, Fuller House.

“It's always funny to try to figure out where Steph ends and I begin, and who shaped who more,” Sweetin shares. “I wasn't sassy as a kid, but I was bright and funny. I got the joke and definitely had Steph’s sarcasm. She was informed by who I was, but there was also a lot of her that became a part of who I am.” 

While Sweetin loved going for laughs with her Full House cast and crew, she also found a family onset. In fact, when the Fuller House reboot came together two decades later, they were all still in touch.

“There was just something special about our cast and our show,” Sweetin says. “We really connected. You can't fake that, and it came from the adults – Bob Saget, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin, the producers, and our crew. We were so tight, and people that were guest stars on the show say it was one of the warmest, most inviting sets they’d been on. I'm proud of that.”

Life after Full House and Fuller House

Though the Full House family had all stayed in touch, coming back together for Fuller House was an adjustment.  

“It was like coming back to your childhood home, having learned all the lessons,” she recalls. “It was the same… and yet hugely different, because it was like, ‘Oh, we’re the adults this time!’ It was so cool to get to come back and it captured something that people were excited about.”

The reboot also helped reboot Sweetin’s career. “I’d shot a couple movies, but I had sort of stepped away from the business and had a day job,” she reveals.

After five seasons of Fuller House, she’s now a busy Hallmark beauty, who’s also writing and pitching her own project. In Los Angeles, she hosts Camp Family Dinners live comedy shows and, having previously co-hosted the parenting podcast Never Thought I’d Say This, she’s having a blast with How Rude, Tanneritos.

“It is a Full House rewatch podcast that I do with Andrea Barber, who played Kimmy Gibbler,” she teases. “We’re up to season three and it's wild. It’s a cool walk down memory lane for us, and a neat experience for our fans, because they get to come on this journey and go behind the scenes with us.”

Everything you need to know about the Hallmark+ launch

With Hallmark+ set to replace Hallmark Movies Now on Tuesday, Sweetin is thrilled to be part of the launch – and First for Women has the scoop on what to expect from Hallmark’s new streaming service.

 Hallmark+ membership costs $79.99 annually or $7.99 monthly. It includes new and exclusive content featuring Hallmark favorites, monthly discounts and rewards for shopping at Hallmark Gold Crown Stores and at Hallmark.com, annual membership gifts, surprises, and more. You can sign up here.

The next installment of Sweetin’s The Jane Mysteries will premiere as part of the Hallmark+ launch on Tuesday, September 10 – along with Celebrations with Lacey Chabert, The Chicken Sisters, and the Love on the Danube movie series. Sweetin’s new rom-com with Sevier, The Heiress and the Handyman, premieres on Hallmark Channel on Saturday, September 14, at 8/7central.

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