‘Step by Step’ alum Christine Lakin says days earlier than the desk learn, she instantly came upon she now not had a job on the ‘Full Home’ spinoff sequence starring Candace Cameron Bure — suspecting previous jokes about Kirk Cameron’s anti-LGBTQIA remarks had been guilty.
Christine Lakin nearly gave followers a TGIF crossover reunion of kinds, till she was purportedly minimize from Fuller Home on the final minute. In response to the Step by Step alum, she was days away from the desk learn when she bought the decision it wasn’t going to occur.
Talking on Friday’s How Impolite, Tanneritos! podcast with Fuller Home costars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, the actress mentioned that every one the items had been falling into place for her to look on Netflix’s common sequel sequence to her ’90s community neighbor on ABC, Full Home, after creator Jeff Franklin approached her.
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Then, simply days earlier than she was set to indicate up for the desk learn, she bought a name from her supervisor and was advised that “one thing occurred” and “they are not going to wish you anymore.” The reason shifted from a script change to her being let go in the middle of sooner or later.
“What did I do mistaken?” Lakin requested on the time. “I did not even go to a desk learn.”
Lakin was supplied no additional clarification, however she has a suspicion what is likely to be the wrongdoer, contemplating Candace Cameron Bure was one of many unique stars of Full Home and one of many three leads within the new sequence, alongside Sweetin and Barber.
“Seven years earlier than [the Fuller House opportunity], I participated in a Humorous or Die! video,” Lakin recalled. “On the time, [Kirk] Cameron had mentioned some public issues concerning the LGBTQ neighborhood.”
“I believed these had been probably very damaging to the LGBTQ neighborhood,” Lakin mentioned on the podcast. “And I used to be requested to take part with a bunch of different former youngster actors on this satirical video, kind of calling out these statements. It was humorous. Hear, it was a satire, you realize?”
Kirk Cameron, in fact, is the older brother of Candace, in addition to a former youngster star himself, together with his breakout function approaching Rising Pains. Each Camerons are outspoken Christian conservatives who’ve not been shy in sharing their views — usually to nice controversy.
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In 2012, as recalled by Us Weekly, Cameron known as homosexuality “unnatural” and mentioned that same-sex marriage was “detrimental” throughout an interview look on CNN. The satirical Humorous or Die! web site responded with ’80s and ’90s youngster actors — together with Lakin — calling him out for his feedback in a parody video.
“All I can consider is that it created some dangerous blood,” Lakin speculated of the video and her misplaced alternative. “And 7 years later, I used to be not, my presence was not wished. That’s perhaps what I feel.”
As for the function that Lakin believed was hers, effectively that went to actress, and fellow cleaning soap opera alum, Virginia Williams. Her flip as C.J. Harbenberger began in Season 2 and recurred all through the present’s five-season run.
You possibly can take a look at Christine Lakin’s full two-part interview with Fuller Home costars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber on their How Impolite, Tanneritos! podcast beneath.
