Candace Cameron Bure is talking out after Miss Benny insinuated the Christian actress wished her queer character faraway from Fuller Home. In a press release, Bure denied she had something to do with the 24-year-old’s arc on the present.
“I by no means requested Miss Benny’s character to be faraway from Fuller Home and didn’t ask the writers, producers or studio executives to not have queer characters on the present. Fuller Home has all the time welcomed a variety of characters,” Bure tells Yahoo Leisure on Friday. “I believed Miss Benny did an amazing job as ‘Casey’ on the present. We did not share any scenes collectively, so we did not get an opportunity to speak a lot whereas filming on set. I want Miss Benny solely the perfect.”
The 47-year-old’s response got here after Miss Benny’s TikTok about her expertise on Fuller Home went viral — here is a rundown of what is going on on.
Miss Benny claimed ‘one of many Tanner sisters’ was unwelcoming on set
The favored social media star performed Casey, the primary brazenly homosexual character within the Full Home world, on the Netflix revival. Miss Benny, who got here out as transgender final month, responded to a fan asking if Bure “was homophobic.”
“One of many Tanner sisters is like very publicly, uh, not for the women, if that is sensible. I bear in mind I bought sat down by the writers and the studio to mainly warn me how this particular person allegedly was attempting to get the character eliminated and never have a queer character on the present,” Miss Benny shared.
“I used to be additionally kind of warned and ready that this particular person’s fanbase could be inspired to focus on me, particularly,” she continued. “The truth that this teenage actor who’s coming in to make jokes about sporting, like, a shawl is all of a sudden a goal from an grownup is loopy to me. So, to at the present time, regardless of engaged on the present each day for 2 weeks straight, I’ve solely had a dialog with one of many Tanner sisters. Constructive is that I had a very enjoyable time really capturing the present with all the different actors who had been prepared to speak to me.”
Though Miss Benny, who now stars on Netflix’s Glamorous, did not title Bure, she included the hashtag #CandaceBure.
Bure and actress Jodie Sweetin performed sisters D.J. and Stephanie Tanner. Yahoo reached out to a rep for Sweetin, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Bure has come underneath fireplace earlier than for anti-LGBTQIA+ feedback
Final yr, the previous Hallmark Channel darling confronted backlash for saying her new faith-based community, Nice American Household, will produce content material that options “conventional marriage” relatively than homosexual and queer love tales.
“My coronary heart needs to inform tales which have extra that means and goal and depth behind them,” Bure informed the Wall Road Journal. “I knew that the individuals behind Nice American Household had been Christians that love the Lord and wished to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”
Hallmark, underneath new management, had been that includes extra progressive storylines because the community launched its first authentic vacation movie that includes an LGBTQ love story. Bure declined to particularly tackle why she left Hallmark, however shared: “It mainly is a totally totally different community than once I began due to the change of management.”
Bure mentioned same-sex {couples} won’t be highlighted at GAF, including, “I believe that Nice American Household will hold conventional marriage on the core.”
The feedback made headlines with actress Hilarie Burton calling Bure a “bigot.” It additionally reignited her feud with queer star JoJo Siwa — who beforehand indicated that Bure was the rudest movie star she’d ever met.
Bure responded to the uproar in a press release
The actress, by no means one to draw back from her religion, mentioned she has nice “affection for all individuals” however did not essentially stroll again her feedback.
“All of you who know me, know past query that I’ve nice love and affection for all individuals. It completely breaks my coronary heart that anybody would ever suppose I deliberately would wish to offend and damage anybody. It saddens me that the media is commonly in search of to divide us, even round a topic as comforting and merry as Christmas motion pictures. However, given the poisonous local weather in our tradition proper now, I should not be stunned. We want Christmas greater than ever,” she informed Leisure Weekly. “I’m a loyal Christian. Which implies that I imagine that each human being bears the picture of God. Due to that, I’m known as to like all individuals, and I do. If you already know me, you already know that I’m an individual who loves fiercely and indiscriminately. My coronary heart yearns to construct bridges and convey individuals one step nearer to God, to like others properly, and to easily be a mirrored image of God’s big love for all of us.”
She added, “To those that hate what I worth and who’re attacking me on-line: I really like you. To those that have tried to assassinate my character: I really like you. To everybody studying this, of any race, creed, sexuality, or political occasion, together with those that have tried to bully me with name-calling, I really like you.”
