‘Full House’ Stars Reveal Which Olsen Twin the Show’s Directors Favored in the Early Days

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen may have shared the role of Michelle Tanner on Full House, but according to their costars, Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, there was one twin who enjoyed being on set more than the other.

“Was there ever a point when the directors would favor working with one twin over the other and give them more time on set?” Barber, 49, said, reading a fan question during the November 20 episode of the How Rude, Tannerinos podcast.

Sweetin, 43, replied, “I would say yes, there was a point when they favored working with one over the other.”

She clarified that this was early on in the series so the Olsen twins were very young, before adding, “It was Ashley. Mary-Kate did not like being out on set, but Ashley was like, ‘Cool, Whatevs.’ She was much more kind of docile about it.”

Sweetin also noted that their personalities really stuck with them as they got older.

“That’s absolutely who they are,” she explained. Ashley will be like, ‘Sure, whatevs.’ Mary-Kate was like, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ There would be certain scenes that one would do and that the other one wouldn’t or something like that.”

Barber then chimed in and said, “One would want to do a certain scene because it was more fun for them and the other one didn’t care.”

While, for the most part, Mary-Kate and Ashley, now 39, didn’t really have a preference over who filmed which scene, that all went out the window when there were treats involved.

“[The directors] had to divide up the sweets eating scenes because that was the only thing that they were like, ‘This isn’t fair,’” Sweetin said. “They couldn’t have one twin eating more sweets than the other one, or the girls would riot.”