Tahj Mowry Says Having Twin Sisters Helped Him with the Olsens on ‘Full Home’

Tahj Mowry says he was by no means confused about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen enjoying the identical character on Full Home because of his experiences along with his personal twin sisters, Tia and Tamera Mowry.

The actor and singer joined Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber on the latest episode of their How Impolite, Tanneritos! podcast to speak about his recurring function on the beloved sitcom. Tahj made his Full Home debut as Michelle Tanner’s finest pal Teddy in 1991, when he was simply 5 years outdated.

“Was it complicated at your age to see the Olsen twins switching off the function of Michelle? Was that straightforward to know, or had been you sort of thrown by it?” Barber requested.

Then, as now, baby labor legal guidelines restricted the variety of hours younger actors might work on set, so the Olsen twins shared the function of the youngest Tanner sister all through all of Full Home’s eight-season run on ABC. However whereas Tahj might not have understood the explanations behind it, he didn’t recall ever being confused by the state of affairs.

“Clearly, my sisters are twins, so in that side, I used to be like, ‘Oh, okay. Yeah. That is smart. There’s two of them. They cut up the work,’ ” he stated. “I understood that. I used to be by no means like, ‘Huh?’ ”

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Tahj’s older sisters, Tia and Tamera, started working as baby actors across the similar time he did within the early ’90s, and went on to star in their very own sitcom, Sister, Sister, by which they performed twin sisters reasonably than sharing a single function.

Tahj admitted that he’s by no means been requested about what it was like performing reverse two totally different actors in the identical function at such a younger age.  

“I want I might return into my considering the primary time I noticed that occur,” the 38-year-old stated. “I’m wondering precisely what I used to be considering. However, yeah, I believe having twin sisters at dwelling sort of like — I do not know. It made it make extra sense to me, perhaps.”

Tahj added that working with each Olsen sisters made his expertise on Full Home extra enjoyable.

“While you’re watching the present, Teddy has one scene accomplice: Michelle,” he defined. “However in actual life, I received to have two scene companions, and so they had been, , they’re two totally different folks, so we had totally different relationships.”

Tahj appeared as Teddy in 14 episodes throughout Full Home’s ultimate 4 seasons. He went on to seem in a number of episodes of Sister, Sister, and starred in his personal sitcom, Sensible Man, which aired for 3 seasons on The WB from 1997 to 1999. He additionally voiced the function of Wade Load within the Disney Channel animated collection Kim Doable.

As an grownup, he starred in Freeform’s Child Daddy from 2012 to 2017, and in Disney+’s The Muppets Mayhem in 2023.