Jodie Sweetin has a new, but nostalgic, project coming up
The Full House star is leading a table read of “What Ever Happened to Baby J?” in Los Angeles in June
The actress opens up exclusively to PEOPLE about the show, and the years of Full House and Fuller House that led her here
Jodie Sweetin is revisiting the past for a good cause.
The Full House actress, 43, will lead a star-studded, nostalgia-filled live table read of “What Ever Happened to Baby J?” at the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025, PEOPLE exclusively reveals.
The fundraising event will benefit the AIDS Resource Foundation for Children (ARFC), which has provided comprehensive family-centered services to individuals, families and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other social- and health-related barriers.
Written by Academy Nicholl fellowship finalist screenwriter Victoria Male, the story follows Sweetin as Olivia Hughes, a woman who appears to have it all. However, when her husband Robbie goes missing, she discovers a huge secret from his life: he was part of a millennial boy band. Now, it’s up to Olivia and the help of her husband’s former bandmates to save him.
Starring other nostalgic faces from the ‘90s and 2000s, including Hocus Pocus star Doug Jones and Teen Beach Movie actor Garrett Clayton, the night will be a full-sensory, themed experience built with raffles, original music and a global livestream through Dynasty Typewriter’s live streaming service “Transmissions by Dynasty.”
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Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin at 90s Con 2023
Speaking exclusively with PEOPLE about the event, Sweetin says she was excited to participate not only because of the cause but because the story is “completely the world [she] understands,” having grown up in the spotlight as Stephanie Tanner on the 1990s favorite Full House.
From 90s Con conventions to popular reboots left and right, there has been a wave of nostalgia in pop culture as of late. While Sweetin thinks that everything eventually comes back around every 30 or so years, she notes that with her generation, there is a real craving to get back to simpler times of their childhood.
“The television shows, the music that was out, all of that was, it was just so different from what it is today,” she says. “You can’t help but hear the theme song for your favorite ‘80s and ‘90s show and be like, ‘Oh my God, I know that show.’ It just feels good. It’s just us geriatric millennials getting to an age where we are looking back on the good old days.”
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Jodie Sweetin as Stephanie Tanner on ‘Fuller House’
When it comes to her own identity as a “nostalgic figure,” Sweetin admits she really gained a whole new appreciation for her hit series as she was able to revisit her character as an adult in Netflix’s Fuller House, which ran from 2016 to 2020.
“It gave me a whole new appreciation for what the show means to fans,” she says. “There was probably an age when the show finished and I was in high school and a teenager that it was just so uncool, but I mean, the wind could blow the wrong way. You were like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so uncool. Everything’s ruined.’ So I think that was the mentality.”
“But as I’ve gotten older and as those around me who have also gotten older now appreciate what it was and the show and the feelings of it, it’s just changed my perspective,” she continues. “It’s a huge honor to get to be part of something that so many people find comfort in, and there’s not many opportunities or careers where that gets to happen. And so I am incredibly grateful for that. I still love what I do. I still love entertaining, I love comedy. And it’s because people fell in love with Full House and Stephanie and have continued to, so I’m just beyond grateful for it.”
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Jodie Sweetin and Bob Saget on Full House in 1988
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She notes that one of the things that made Full House and Fuller House so special to her was the family she was able to create with her castmates.
“This has been my family since 1986,” she notes. “I didn’t have necessarily a huge family in real life and so these are legitimately my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, my people I grew up with. I spent more time with these people that I worked with than anyone else, than kids my age. I was really fortunate that I was surrounded by incredible adults who were family-oriented people and who enjoyed working with kids. They never resented us.”
As they’ve grown older together, she adds that they’ve continued to stand beside each other through the highs and lows, including Bob Saget’s death, and recently supporting Dave Coulier through his cancer treatments.
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“Getting to support each other through wonderful things through births and weddings and of course deaths and losing Bob and losing others that we’ve lost in our crew and our cast, I know that there’s that built-in support for it,” she continues. “We help each other, we connect each other. I know we know each other’s families and that doesn’t happen often, regardless of whether you’re on a TV show together or not. It just doesn’t, a group of people like that don’t click and stay connected like that for as long as we have.”
In-person and livestream tickets for “What Ever Happened to Baby J?” are available for purchase now at dynastytypewriter.com.
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