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Veteran actor John Posey played Danny Tanner in the original unaired pilot of \u201cFull House.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe shot an entire pilot, actually, with a different dad, with John Posey, who was a lovely human being and very sweet and wonderful,\u201d star Jodie Sweetin shared on a recent episode of Black Eyed Peas rapper\u00a0Taboo\u2019s \u201cTaboo\u2019s Comics & Kicks\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

But Bob Saget \u201cwas the first choice\u201d to play Danny, Sweetin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when he was no longer doing the show that was conflicting with\u00a0\u2018Full House,\u2019 we reshot the entire pilot,\u201d the actress explained, referring to Saget\u2019s commitment to host CBS\u2019\u00a0\u201cThe Morning Program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sweetin, 44, said creator Jeff Franklin \u201chad to fight so hard\u201d to reshoot the pilot because it was so expensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was like, \u2018I just know it. I just know this is who we need as the dad,’\u201d she recalled. \u201cAnd he was right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Saget played the widowed Tanner family patriarch in all eight seasons of \u201cFull House.\u201d <\/p>\n

The actor died on January 9, 2022 at age 65.<\/p>\n

He was found dead in his hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Orlando, Florida, and his autopsy report revealed his death was \u201cthe result of blunt head trauma\u201d after suffering bleeding and contusions to his brain.<\/p>\n

In \u201cFull House,\u201d Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen played Danny\u2019s three daughters, Stephanie, D.J. and Michelle Tanner.<\/p>\n

The show also starred John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Lori Loughlin and Andrea Barber.<\/p>\n

Posey, meanwhile, is best known for starring in \u201cTeen Wolf\u201d\u00a0with his son,Tyler Posey.<\/p>\n

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The 70-year-old\u2019s other TV credits include \u201cCheers,\u201d \u201cER,\u201d \u201cBoston Legal,\u201d \u201cCriminal Minds,\u201d \u201cHow to Get Away with Murder\u201d and \u201cBetter Call Saul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Posey previously spoke about his audition process for \u201cFull House\u201d in a 2014 Yahoo! interview. <\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what I was told, they were looking all over the country for people and couldn\u2019t find a guy, although I later found out that Bob Saget and\u00a0Paul Reiser\u00a0were the two guys they were after first, and they were both unavailable,\u201d Posey explained, noting both actors \u201cwere obligated to other shows,\u201d so they couldn\u2019t be in the sitcom.<\/p>\n

Posey added, \u201cHow you go from those guys to me is kind of a mystery, because we couldn\u2019t be more different.\u201d<\/p>\n

After shooting the pilot, Posey said he found out ABC tested Saget for the role and chose him instead. <\/p>\n

At the time of the interview, Posey said he\u2019d \u201cnever spoken\u201d to Saget, who died eight years later. <\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Stamos\u00a0is a friend.\u00a0Dave Coulier\u00a0is a friend,\u201d Posey shared. \u201cI know that the young girls were all a little bit shattered when it happened because we developed a pretty good relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cameron Bure, in particular, \u201cwas very upset\u201d about the recasting, according to Posey.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was hard for the kids to have to do this all over again with somebody they didn\u2019t know,\u201d Posey stated.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cFull House\u201d cast remained close after the show finished airing in 1995. <\/p>\n

They all attended Saget\u2019s funeral in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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