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Ryan LaBee

Turns Out Full House’s Producers Had A Preferred Olsen Twin To Work With Early On

Michelle in Full House.

If you grew up watching one of the greatest sitcoms of all time Full House, you probably assumed Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen traded off the role of Michelle Tanner with perfect twins-in-sync energy. But according to two of the Tanner family’s own, things were not quite that smooth at first. It turns out the producers did favor one Olsen twin during the early days, and the reason why says a lot about the girls’ very different baby personalities.

Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber answered fan questions on a recent episode of their podast, How Rude, Tanneritos! When after joking about long shoot days and imagining how the Full House characters would fare in a pandemic, Sweetin slipped in a detail that fans might not know: the twins did not have the same temperament on set, which shaped how often each was used. Sweetin explained:

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