Hell hath no fury like a Tannerito scorned. At least, that’s what Christine Lakin is suggesting.
The Step by Step actress recounted losing out on a part on Fuller House and why she thinks a satirical video about the show’s star and co-producer Candace Cameron Bure’s brother may have had something to do with it.
On a recent episode of Full and Fuller House alum Jodie Sweetin’s How Rude, Tanneritos podcast, Lakin said she was up for a recurring role on the Netflix reboot of the TGIF staple, but that she was inexplicably let go before she even had her table read
Lakin told Sweetin how she had had a “great” meeting with series creator Jeff Franklin and how “stoked” she was about appearing on the show, which ran for five seasons from 2016 to 2020.
“And then about two days before the table read, I got a call from my manager saying, ‘Yes, something happened. They’re pushing the table read. I think there’s some stuff with the script they want to rewrite,'” Lakin recalled.
She continued, “The next day happened and my manager calls and says, ‘Hey, I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’ve been let go.’ And I was like, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, they just said they’re rewriting the character and they’re not going to need you anymore. And I was like, ‘What did I do wrong?’ I didn’t even go to a table read.”
Lakin tried to get to the bottom of what happened, but one of the show’s writers she asked didn’t have a clue why she was fired, either. After racking her brain, Lakin came up with a theory of her own.
In 2012, Lakin and other child stars made a video poking fun at former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron and his staunchly anti-LGBTQ comments — something he and his younger sister Cameron-Bure have in common.
“I participated in a Funny or Die video that a friend of mine made and at the time, Funny or Die had just come out,” Lakin said. “Kirk Cameron had said some public things about the LGBTQ community and I thought those were very damaging.”
Cameron had called homosexuality “unnatural” and that it was “detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization.” In the video, Lakin and other actors said they were “pledging to raise awareness about a serious threat to our civil rights: Kirk Cameron’s stupid opinions.”
Noting the video was “satire” and all in good fun, Lakin thinks it nevertheless might have “created some bad blood” with the notoriously humorless Cameron Bure.
“It was a bummer for me,” Lakin added about losing out on the part. “It really was.”
