Jodie Sweetin is not happy with the sale of her upcoming movie Craft Me A Romance to the socially conservative television network Great American Family.
The 41-year-old Full House actress said in a statement Friday that she was disappointed that Great American Family, formerly a country music channel, had made the purchase.
“Sometimes we, as actors, have no control over which network buys the projects we’re in, nor are we part of the process in which they are sold,” she shared. People.
“So I was very surprised to read in the press yesterday that the independent film I was working on over a year ago had been sold to Great American Family.”
Sweetin’s Fuller House costar Candace Cameron Bure previously sparked controversy after she left her longtime home on the Hallmark Channel in April 2022 in favor of Great American Family, which she said would “keep traditional marriage at its heart” following anti-LGBTQ backlash which Hallmark received after releasing a TV movie featuring his first gay lead couple in 2020.
Surprised: Full House star Jodie Sweetin said she was “disappointed” after learning her film Craft Me A Romance had been sold to the Great American Family channel, according to People; seen September 2022 in LA
Protest: Her former costar Candace Cameron Bure left the Hallmark Channel to become GAF’s CCO in 2022, after Hallmark aired a movie in 2020 featuring a gay bridle; seen in February in LA
Sweetin added that she would donate future profits from the film due to its sale to Great American Family.
“I am disappointed, but in keeping with my mission to support the LGBTQ+ family, any potential or future money made from this sale will be donated to LGBTQ+ organizations,” she said.
The former child star previously called herself a supporter of the LGBTQ community – as well as the Black Lives Matter movement – while speaking to Entertainment tonight in December 2022.
“I have always tried to fight for equality and love for everyone,” she said at the time. “I feel like if you have a voice and you have a platform, it’s up to you to be loud and use it.”
Sweetin also showed support for Jojo Siwa after calling Bure for comments about favoring “traditional marriage” on Great American Family.
She replied to one of Siwa’s messages with, “You know I love you,” suggesting she may have had a falling out with her former costar Bure.
People previously announced that Craft Me A Romance had been acquired by the network, and that it and six other TV movies will air on the channel in September as part of its Great American Autumn slate.
After leaving Hallmark, Sweetin’s former costar Bure joined Great American Family as Chief Creative Officer.
Help: Sweetin said she would donate all future Craft Me A Romance profits to “LGBTQ+ organizations.” She has identified herself as an ally before; seen with Bure in 2018 in LA
Outrage: Bure was widely criticized after he said GAF would focus on “traditional marriage” in a Wall Street Journal profile, which suggested same-sex couples would not star in leading roles; seen in 2019 in LA
She sparked controversy with an interview with the Wall Street Journal in November 2022, when asked if Great American Family would also allow an LGBTQ couple to direct a movie or series, as Hallmark had done.
“I think Great American Family will keep traditional marriage central,” she replied.
While her answer was evasive, many readers thought it meant that gay couples would not play major roles on the network, a claim Bure has not publicly disputed.
The network is now run by Bill Abbott, who was formerly the CEO of the Hallmark Channel, and he was similarly dismissive and evasive in the same profile.
When asked the same question as Bure, he replied, “It’s definitely the year 2022, so we’re on top of the trends.” There’s no whiteboard that says, “Yes, this” or “No, we’re never going here.”‘
However, members of the LGBTQ community and more socially progressive viewers did not appreciate the reduction of gay life to “trends.”
Despite the controversy, Great American Family is said to be the fastest-growing cable channel in the past nine months, though that may also be impacted by its relatively modest size at the start of that period.
Bure previously denied in a statement to DailyMail.com that she never asked for the first openly gay character on Fuller House — who was played by a transgender actress — to be removed.
Her former costar, the actress Miss Benny, had claimed in a TikTok video earlier this summer that the “writers and the studio” informed her that Bure was trying to have her character removed from the revival show.
She said, she said: Bure previously denied claims made by transgender actress Miss Benny earlier this summer that Fuller House writers and studio executives had warned her that Bure was trying to have her character removed; April seen
She also claimed that the unnamed creative and executive team “warned and prepared her that this person’s fanbase might be encouraged to target me specifically.”
In her statement, Bure insisted that she “never asked for the character of Miss Benny to be removed” and “didn’t ask the writers, producers or studio executives not to have strange characters on the show.”
She continued, “Fuller House has always welcomed a wide variety of characters. I thought Miss Benny did a great job as Casey on the show.’
The actress also claimed that Bure never spoke to her on set, but the older star claimed they barely spoke because they didn’t share any scenes about the episode in question.