I don’t know if the people behind this show expected this, or if they’re exploiting it. I watched Full House in the 1990s, when I was almost 30. I guess Candace Cameron Bure is 40 now, making her 10 years my junior. So maybe I was a bit older than the target audience for Full House, at the time.
But I can remember, even back then, seeing Stephanie Tanner/Jodie Sweetin as a little girl, and recognizing that she was going to grow up to be a “hottie”.
Years go by, and now here’s “Fuller House”, and …
Goddam! I was right! Jodie Sweetin has grown … yeah. Wow!
Now I watch this hot, grown woman, reprising her role, and while I’m seeing the current hot woman for herself, at the same time I see her acting the role of Stephanie Tanner, and seeing those same mannerisms I remember from when she was a little girl, and I’m all, “Gaaaaah!!”
Meh. Any interest I might have in her is significantly tempered by the knowledge of her extreme drug history and trail of broken relationships. She has been not quite right for a very long time.
On the one hand, she grew up just like you grew up, and that shouldn’t really be any weirder than seeing your friends from school as adults now. On the other hand, like bobkitty says, she’s a handful. I’ve heard her interviewed on a couple of podcasts and she’s not very bright and seems inherently troubled.
Personally I’m more of a Kimmy Gibbler fan. And Andrea Barber is similarly as hot as I’d hoped.
I was 12 when the series first started airing and my interest (starting season 2) was firmly held by Lori Loughlin. I had already had a major crush on her from Back to the Beach and Rad.
30 years later, I don’t see her getting pushed off my Crush List any time soon.
I kinda felt that way for a bit when I first started watching, but it pretty much went away.
It helps that she doesn’t really look like her younger self. She was in transition to her adult face when she shoe ended. While she’s still very obviously the same person, it’s not close enough to make me flash back to the younger version.
I’ve only seen the first episode of Fuller House and I gotta say her outfits are pretty wild. I found myself wondering whether she chose what she wore or did the show producers choose them?
Sweetin is on the current season of Dancing With The Stars, for what it’s worth. She’s mentioned her troubled past, but she seems to be in a better place now. She’s dancing pretty well, though I don’t know if she’ll have a big enough fan base to go the distance.
My at the time GF picked up a copy of Playboy back in the early 90s that had Drew Barrymore on it.
She flipped the centerfold open and tried to show it to me, but I was too creeped out to even look. Drew will always be that cute little girl on ET in my eyes.