By Michaela Gordoni
Teddy Bear Award® winner Candace Cameron Bure could have been on GILMORE GIRLS if she just paced her dialogue right.
“I auditioned for GILMORE GIRLS, I think at…probably one of the last seasons of the show,” she said on a recent episode of the “I am Allin” podcast. “I remember going in for that audition, and I hadn’t seen the show. I audition and the casting director has said to me, ‘You know, they talk really fast on the show… Could you do it faster?’ and I said, ‘Sure!’”
“Let me tell you, I read that script as fast as I possibly could and rattled it off so fast that I don’t think I thought about any word that I said and it was just… She was like, ‘Oh, okay. Thank you.’ And I walked out of the room like I blew that audition. That sucked!” she laughed.
She recalled it as one of the worst auditions she ever had. It had certainly gone much worse than her FULL HOUSE audition decades earlier.
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“I remember auditioning for the casting director [for FULL HOUSE]. She told me right in the room, ‘We’re going to bring you back.’ That was so exciting,” Bure told Parade.
“And then I remember going in for that next audition, which had all the producers, the creator of the show, and some of the writers. So it felt very big as a 10-year-old to meet all of these strange faces. I did my best, and that was it. The creator, Jeff Franklin, has since said to me, ‘Oh, we knew the second that you walked out of the room.’”
Bure says she loved growing up on TV.
“I absolutely loved it, especially in light of stories that have come out more recently. There are a handful of child stars or young entertainers who didn’t get through the business successfully with their emotional health and have really awful predator experiences,” she said. “So when I look back on it, I’m grateful. Then I had the gift of FULLER HOUSE and worked with my best friends again.”
Bure is also known as the “Queen of Christmas Movies” because of dominance in the genre on Hallmark and Great American Family.
“I’m proud to be one of the OGs!” she said of the Christmas movie genre. “It was a niche at the Hallmark Channel at the time. I had to audition for my first one [MOONLIGHT & MISTLETOE], so I sent in a videotape and Hallmark was like, ‘Let’s try it.’”
“It was actually my first movie after taking a 10-year break, because I decided to stay home and raise my kids. But if you would have asked me about this many years ago, I would not have thought I would become synonymous with Christmas movies — or that the genre would be as big as it is today.”
Bure has two new GAF Christmas movies this year: TIMELESS TIDINGS OF JOY and HOME SWEET CHRISTMAS WEDDING. They will come out on GAF this holiday season.
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