Actor and producer Candace Cameron Bure, a Christian who grew up in the entertainment industry, said that at one point she considered giving up her career because her husband, Valeri Bure, was uncomfortable watching her in romance movies.
“It’s something that Val and I wrestled with a lot in our marriage,” Bure said, sharing that her husband told her, “Regardless of a kiss at the end, I really don’t like watching you be close to someone else.”
“And I get that,” Bure said. “So we’ve had those struggles and a lot of conversation and prayer.” Bure eventually reached a point where she concluded, “I think this is it. I think I have to give this up.” She said she had made a couple of Hallmark movies, and her husband told her, “I don’t want to watch them anymore. They make me uncomfortable.”
“And I would never want to put my husband in that position,” said Bure.
Candace Cameron Bure: ‘Ok, God…I’ll Let This Go’
Candace Cameron Bure is known for starring in the 90s sitcom “Full House” and the 2016-2020 spinoff, “Fuller House,” as well as numerous Hallmark movies. She has previously cohosted “The View.” In 2022, she announced she had left the Hallmark Channel and signed with Great American Family, where she serves as chief creative officer. She continues to star in romantic films, most recently “A Christmas Less Traveled.”
Season 8 of Bure’s podcast features conversations with author, Bible teacher, and actor Priscilla Shirer. Shirer has not had a lifelong career in the entertainment industry as Bure has, but Shirer has had opportunities to star in several films, including “War Room,” “Overcomer,” and most recently, “The Forge.”
Shirer’s latest book is, “I Surrender All,” and Shirer and Bure spent the Nov. 8 podcast episode discussing the Christian discipline of surrender, sharing from their personal experiences how God has challenged them at different times to let go of parts of their lives they held dear.
Shirer said that when she got the opportunity to star in “War Room,” she discovered that acting with an unexpected joy for her. But an unforeseen consequence of her playing a married woman was that her husband, Jerry Shirer, had a difficult time watching her pretend to be married to another man.
“He didn’t know how that would impact him, watching me and this other actor together for 12 hours a day, every day, sort of interacting in a closed space,” Priscilla Shirer said. She explained that for any close-up shots of the married characters, the film’s creators, the Kendrick brothers, used the real-life wife of the actor who was playing the husband. “But [Jerry] was just jarred by the feeling, since this [acting] is not what we always do,” Shirer said.
