Candace Cameron Bure, the Full Home little one star who followers now know because the Queen of Christmas isn’t slowing down.
The star is well-liked for her position on Full Home and its Netflix spinoff Fuller Home, to not point out numerous Christmas films for the Hallmark Channel. After shifting in 2022 to the Nice American Household channel, the place she grew to become an govt, Cameron Bure has continued a gradual stream of titles, together with two Christmas movies this 12 months: A Christmas Much less Traveled and House Candy Christmas.
In a dialog with The Hollywood Reporter, the ever-prolific performer discusses what she appears for in a brand new vacation movie, why she scrapped a challenge pairing her with Cameron Mathison earlier than discovering a unique one with him, her plans for a uncommon Christmas-movie sequel, her bond with the Full Home solid and her response to headlines a couple of earlier interview relating to GAF’s priorities.
Once you’re deciding on a brand new Christmas challenge, are you searching for one thing that you simply haven’t but gotten to do, or is it extra about realizing what works to your viewers?
It’s a bit of little bit of each. I learn so many Christmas scripts all 12 months lengthy. I’m searching for one thing that feels contemporary to me and can resonate with the viewers. Particularly for Nice American Household channel — the place we lean into religion in our films, and our tagline for the channel is, “Christmas because it’s meant to be” — I’m searching for issues that actually contact the guts and have extra goal to them than simply the magic of Christmas or the Santa Claus of Christmas. As I learn scripts, I normally can inform inside the first 15 to twenty pages if it’s one thing that’s going to seize me or if it’s a narrative I’ve heard 100 occasions over.
Candace Cameron Bure (left) and Cameron Mathison from House Candy Christmas.
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Earlier this 12 months, you introduced that you’d be co-starring with Cameron Mathison in a brand new Christmas film, and then you definitely famous that you simply two could be going with a unique script. Are there various Christmas screenplays which are usually able to go at a second’s discover?
Normally, we hope that that’s by no means the case, however this 12 months, it was the case. We did have a script, Jingle Bells, Wedding ceremony Bells, that we thought could be good for the 2 of us. As we went into a few of the manufacturing components, I noticed in a short time that it in all probability wasn’t going to be the very best film that we may do. I pulled the plug on it fairly rapidly. After we reread House Candy Christmas, I used to be like, “Truly, this can be a a lot better film for the 2 of us collectively,” as a result of we play these childhood mates that get reunited. That feels very very like Cameron and me, as we’ve been mates for a extremely very long time however by no means labored collectively.
Followers had been excited concerning the prospect of you two working collectively. Are there regularly actors like that with whom you wish to collaborate?
Cameron is a type of folks as a result of we’re staple actors within the style. It was loopy, interested by the truth that we hadn’t completed a film collectively. I don’t even know if I’ve ever repeated a co-star as a result of I prefer to work with new folks, and I prefer to deliver contemporary faces to our channel as properly. However Cameron and I truly paired so properly collectively, so we are literally contemplating doing a sequel to this film. The followers actually loved it.
I do know that your 2022 interview about Nice American Household spurred headlines concerning the channel emphasizing conventional marriage, after which later, your former Full Home co-star Jodie Sweetin was sad to have her movie get acquired by the community. Has it felt powerful to convey what this community values if viewers aren’t acquainted with its programming?
It actually is troublesome when speaking to media retailers. Whereas we’re grateful for media retailers that time folks to our channels, there’s nonetheless all the time a threat as a result of the solutions will be written out of context. That actually occurred to me when shifting over to Nice American Household, and it was a extremely exhausting time, and to be misunderstood in that manner was troublesome. However what I’ll say, is that we’re a comparatively new channel. That is solely our fourth 12 months in Christmas. Like every new enterprise, you’ve your core demographic and what you’re searching for, and also you’re going to provide the product that can finest go well with that viewers. Most networks will not be attempting to be all issues to all folks. What actually differentiates our channel from a few of the different ones out there’s that we’re not afraid to speak about God and God’s hand in our lives as a substitute of destiny or windfall.
This has been a divided time for our nation. Is that in your thoughts whenever you’re engaged on movies and doubtlessly attempting to unite viewers?
Yeah, it’s all the time been the spirit of all the films that I’ve produced. God loves all of us, and in order that’s the spirit wherein I make all the things.
Bob Saget’s demise was such a tricky loss. Has there been any current dialogue of bringing again a brand new model of Full Home?
We haven’t had any discussions of that. Fuller Home was an excellent success for Netflix, however I don’t suppose there’s going to be one other iteration. In the event that they ever needed to make it, I believe we’d all be on board for it. We’re all nonetheless very shut.
You proceed to be wildly prolific. What are your plans for subsequent 12 months?
I’ll in all probability shoot one other 4 to 5 films in 2025. It’s what I like doing.