As a younger actress rising up in Hollywood, Candace Cameron Bure was sure to have her share of embarrassments.
In an unique interview with Fox Information Digital, the “Full Home” alum, who starred as DJ Tanner for eight seasons, opened up about her first kiss with co-star Scott Curtis in entrance of a stay studio viewers on the set of the ’90s present.
“I keep in mind it was very embarrassing in that I knew my mother and father have been standing off to the facet watching it,” stated Bure, who kissed Curtis’s character, Kevin Gwin, on an episode titled “13 Candles” in 1990. “You could have an viewers of 200 individuals which might be watching you do that. You could have the digicam individuals, the producers, the administrators, the opposite actors on the stage.”
“I keep in mind I used to be simply blushing, pondering, ‘Oh my goodness, I’m about to have my first kiss at 13 years previous,’” she recalled. “Once more, the act isn’t embarrassing, but it surely’s simply if you’re an adolescent, all the pieces’s simply embarrassing. However I keep in mind when Scott was forged, he was so candy. He was actually cute, and we actually loved one another and dealing with one another. So I used to be like, OK, this might be good.”
Bure, who’s at the moment starring in a handful of movies for this yr’s Nice American Household Christmas lineup, together with, “A Christmas Much less Traveled” and “House Candy Christmas,” stated the 2 by no means really kissed throughout rehearsals.
“After which it was like as soon as we needed to really tape the scene, we went in for that peck, and yeah, I believe he was telling a narrative the place we have been giving one another breath spray. I believe we have been simply making an attempt to be as enjoyable and humorous about it as potential and relaxed and simply break the nerves that we each had. And it was so very harmless.”
“However I give it some thought now, whilst a guardian and pondering of my youngsters at 13 years previous and like, oh my goodness, it truly is embarrassing to have your first kiss in entrance of a whole bunch of individuals stay after which understanding hundreds of thousands of individuals are going to look at it,” she added.
Final month, throughout an look on “Full Home” alums Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber’s podcast, “How Rude, Tanneritos!“ Curtis detailed his first kiss with Bure.
“I used to be excited to get the audition, and so they had stated that I used to be going to be Candace’s first kiss,” he stated. “So, once I got here in and did the desk learn with you guys very first thing, I took this significantly. I knew that this was a giant second.”
“In fact, the remainder of the week, you may really feel the build-up taking place,” he continued. “The night time that we filmed it, we really needed to get it with the viewers after which with out the viewers as a result of [‘Full House’ creator] Jeff Franklin needed one take of the viewers going, ‘Woooh.’”
The second, stated Curtis, actually helped create a robust friendship between the 2 younger actors.
“After the 2 episodes, Candace and I grew to become associates,” he stated. “We have been speaking on the telephone and guffawing and laughing and having enjoyable. I keep in mind the very last thing that she and I stated to one another was, ‘We’ll see you on the wrap social gathering.’”
Earlier this yr, Bure talked about her bond along with her “Full Home” castmates, together with John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Sweetin, Barber and the late Bob Saget.
“We’re all shut associates. We hold involved, like, continuously. I all the time simply get amused when [the media calls] them reunions as a result of I’m like, ‘We’re actually household hanging out,’” she instructed Fox Information Digital. “However generally we do this publicly.”
Nowadays, Bure, who grew to become the Nice American Household Channel’s chief artistic officer in 2022, is continuous her mission of making religion and family-based content material.
Her specialty? Christmas!
“Truthfully, it has been 15 years of taking pictures Christmas content material all yr lengthy, and so I’m so used to it,” stated Bure, who’s starring in a number of Christmas movies through the 4th annual Nice American Christmas franchise this season. “I really feel like I’m synonymous with these Christmas films. I actually love making them. I’ve such a pleasure for Christmas and so it feels very pure at this level, 15 years in, to only be like, ‘Yeah, it’s Christmas 24/7.’”
“I actually do love our lineup at Nice American Household Channel,” she added. “They’re heartwarming films. You’ve acquired the prince and princess films, you’ve acquired some actually enjoyable musical Christmas films with songs. I imply, they’re implausible. And then you definitely’ll most likely pull out the tissues for my films.”
“So there’s fairly the lineup, and I like the entire expertise that we’ve, and I need individuals to be entertained,” she stated. “I need them to really feel comforted and snicker and be joyful and no matter makes them be ok with watching these Christmas films, we’ve one for everybody. So, whether or not you prefer to snicker otherwise you need this music and dance, otherwise you need the tears, we’ve them.”
Fox Information Digital’s Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.