Jodie Sweetin on the Message of Her Hallmark Movie "Entertaining Christmas"

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Television favorite Jodie Sweetin will be back on Hallmark Channel this weekend in the premiere of Entertaining Christmas, starring opposite Brendan Fehr.  It's hard to believe a year has passed since Sweetin made her Hallmark debut, joining her Full and Fuller House co-stars Lori Loughlin and Candace Cameron Bure as member of the network's expanding family.  "Last year I was Finding Santa and now I'm Entertaining Christmas," laughed Sweetin when MediaVillage spoke with her.  "Finding Santa was my first Hallmark movie, and I shot Entertaining Christmas in October of this year, so I'm really in the fold of the Hallmark family, which I love.  [CEO] Bill Abbott and [Executive Vice President of Programming and Publicity] Michelle Vicary, who works alongside him, have been so wonderful, warm, generous and kind in welcoming me and having me participate in some wonderful events and do these movies.  It really is another family; they are great and so many of the actors from the shows and movies are people I know, have worked with, or I grew up watching.  So it's really fun to get to see all of them and be a part of this together."

In Entertaining Christmas, Sweetin portrays Candace Livingstone, the daughter of lifestyle guru Liz Livingstone (Jane Moffat) and heir to the family empire. Candace is happy working behind the scenes of her mother's business, because while perfection comes easy for Liz, with Candace it's a constant struggle.  When Liz is asked to help arrange a special Christmas party by Harper (Ana Araujo), a young girl living in Vermont, she sends Candace as a test to prove her abilities. While there, Candace meets John (Fehr, pictured below with Sweetin), the young girl's uncle and a reporter at the local newspaper.  As feelings for him start to develop, Candace has no idea he's been asked to write a less-than-flattering expose on her, and with her lack of domestic skills evident, it provides him with excellent fodder.

This Christmas is a special one for the busy Sweetin.  In addition to Entertaining Christmas, she's celebrating the release of a Christmas single (available on iTunes), a duet of Santa Baby with her friend Jacob Tolliver.  "We met at Full House creator Jeff Franklin's house years ago at one of his big music nights," she revealed.  "We'd been talking about doing a song together and thought why not a Christmas song?"

She's also anticipating the Netflix release of season four of Fuller House on December 14, a snowboarding get-away with family, and her next Hallmark Christmas project.  "Hopefully, there's Christmas movie No. 3," she laughed. "Only next time she will be [named] Lori, and then maybe Kimmie and then Stephanie.  I'll just go through all the real and fake names of all the shows I've ever done."> 

Steve Gidlow

Steve Gidlow, a long-time columnist for MediaVillage ("Behind the Scenes in Hollywood"), has written about television and pop culture since 1994, beginning in Australia.  Since moving to Hollywood in 1997, Steve has focused on celebrity interv… read more