Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure. MediaPunch/Shutterstock
Jodie Sweetin doesn’t approve of her upcoming movie being offered to Nice American Household — the “conventional” community of former Full Home costar Candace Cameron Bure.
“Typically, we, as actors, don’t have management over which community buys the tasks we’re in, nor are we part of the method through which they get offered,” Sweetin, 41, advised Us Weekly in an announcement on Friday, August 11. “So I used to be very stunned to study by studying about it within the press yesterday that the unbiased movie I labored on over a yr in the past was offered to Nice American Household.”
She continued: “I’m disenchanted, however consistent with my mission of supporting the LGBTQ+ household, any potential or future cash constituted of this sale will probably be donated to LGBTQ+ organizations.”
It was introduced on Wednesday, August 9, that Sweetin’s new romantic comedy, Craft Me a Romance, could be one among Nice American Household’s seven new motion pictures slated to debut throughout its Nice American Autumn occasion subsequent month.
Sweetin’s former Full Home and Fuller Home costar Cameron Bure, 47, signed on to the community as chief artistic officer in November 2022 and shortly revealed the channel could be specializing in “conventional marriage on the core.”
“My coronary heart desires to inform tales which have extra that means and function and depth behind them,” she advised WSJ. Journal on the time. “I knew that the individuals behind Nice American Household have been Christians that love the Lord and wished to advertise religion programming and good household leisure.”
Cameron Bure added that her former community, Hallmark, is now “utterly totally different than once I began due to the change of management.” She was referring to the 2020 departure from Hallmark of president Invoice Abbott within the wake of the controversial elimination of an advert from the community that featured a same-sex couple. Abbott is now the president and CEO of Nice American Media.
Shortly after Cameron Bure’s remarks about GAF’s “conventional” content material, Sweetin, who has additionally starred in varied Hallmark movies over time, took to social media to share varied clips in assist of the LGBTQIA+ group, together with a put up in assist of the Respect for Marriage Act, which “[ensures] all legally married same-sex and interracial {couples}’ marriages are protected.”
“Only a reminder from @glaad of some essential legislations arising within the Senate,” she wrote alongside a hyperlink to GLAAD’s web site by way of her Instagram Story. “Name your senator proper now and urge them to vote YES for the Respect for Marriage Act,” she captioned one other clip from the group. (The act was signed into regulation in December 2022.)
The next month, Sweetin mentioned her public activism with Leisure Tonight, telling the outlet, “I’ve all the time been an outspoken ally for LGBTQ communities, for Black Lives Matter. I’ve all the time tried to battle for equality and love for everybody. I really feel like when you have a voice and you’ve got a platform, it’s incumbent on you to be loud and use it. Whether or not individuals prefer it on a regular basis or not.”
She added: “I like my LGBTQ siblings. They’re wonderful individuals. They’re a beautiful household. I like and assist them a lot.”
