If you’ve loved watching Jodie Sweetin evolve from spunky middle child to amazing aunt on Full House and its sequel series Fuller House, you’ll be even more delighted to see the actress step into the starring role of Hallmark Channel’s upcoming original movie Love Under the Rainbow, premiering this Saturday March 9 at 8 p.m. EST.
Sweetin plays Lucy, a fifth-grade teacher who is surrounded by love — her parents are celebrating their 40th anniversary and her sister is expecting her first child — but feels anything but lucky in that department. That is, until she meets Jack (Supernatural’s David Haydn-Jones), a widower and father to Lucy’s new student Sophie, whose fondness for rainbows holds a deeper meaning for her family. Chance encounters constantly bring Lucy and Jack together and while their chemistry is undeniable, the fear of losing someone again holds Jack back.
You’ll have to wait until Saturday to see just how their romance unfolds, but in the meantime, check out our chat with Jodie Sweetin, who dishes about love, family, and the final season of Fuller House.
On falling in love:
“The hardest thing about falling in love is the vulnerability of it — it’s scary! You’re going to open up and put all the intimate parts of yourself into it, and that can be intimidating. Nobody wants to get hurt, especially people that have been hurt before. You feel like, ‘oh I don’t want to open myself up to this again’. But when you do, and you really find the person that it fits with, you know you’re in the right place.”
On the importance of family:
“I think your family knows you sometimes better than you know yourself. They see parts of you that maybe you don’t see. As hard as it can be when our parents and our family tell us something about ourselves, it’s usually because they see it in a way that we are blind to on our own. For me, when my mom tells me something at first I’m like ‘That’s crazy! I’m not going to do that!’ And my mom always responds with, ‘I know you’re going to do whatever it is that you want to do, but I just have to say this anyway. Whether you decide to, or not, is up to you.’ I think it’s really when our family is willing to help us and support us—and even call us out on our stuff—they can do it in a way that nobody else in our lives can.”
On her favorite part of Love Under the Rainbow:
“I love the relationship between Lucy and the daughter, Sophie, in the film and that her love interest sort of connected through the daughter and that bond.”
On whether she believes in fate:
“I don’t know if I believe in luck, but I don’t think that there are any accidents. I think that you’re always in the spot that you’re supposed to be and I think that if you want to call that luck or kismet or whatever it might be, that’s definitely what I subscribe to.”
On the final season of Fuller House:
“We haven’t done any script readings so I don’t know anything yet, but we’ve had so much fun filming the show and it’s been fun to be back with everyone again and to bring back these characters that people are so attached to. It’s been a really wonderful experience. When developing Stephanie as an adult, the writers and the producers would listen to who we wanted the characters to be and where we wanted these characters to wind up. These characters have inhabited us for years, nobody knows them better than we do.”