During her tenure on “The View,” actor and producer Candace Cameron Bure would study four hours per night researching 80 potential topics that she and her fellow cohosts might discuss the next day while shooting the show. Then she would study an additional hour or so the following morning while she was in hair and makeup before filming.
“I have never prepared like I have prepared for that show in my life,” Bure said in a conversation with Allie Schnacky on “The JWLKRS Podcast.”
“I would do hours and hours of homework every single night,” Bure explained. “You basically get a packet of about 80 topics the night before, because they’re all current events. They keep moving and changing, whatever happens in the news cycle.”
“I would spend probably a minimum of four hours each night researching all 80 topics so I could understand what I didn’t understand,” Bure continued. “And then on the morning of, with the hosts and the producers, they break it down. We go through all 80 topics and then pinpoint maybe seven or eight of those that we’re actually going to discuss on the show.”
Candace Cameron Bure: ‘The View’ Was ‘Really Hard’ but ‘Grew Me a Lot’
“The JWLKRS Podcast” was started in April 2024 as a ministry of the music collective JWLKRS Worship. Its purpose is to “navigate the pathways of life through a lens of God’s Truth, diving into the depths of the Bible and getting real” by discussing people’s “personal experiences and struggles.”
Candace Cameron Bure is known for starring in the 90s sitcom “Full House” and the 2016-2020 spinoff “Fuller House,” as well as in numerous Hallmark movies. In 2022 she announced she had left the Hallmark Channel and signed with Great American Family, where she serves as chief creative officer and continues to star in various films.
Bure agreed with Schnacky’s assessment that “The View” has a “primarily liberal audience.”
“It’s called ‘The View’ because it’s supposed to be five different viewpoints,” said Bure, noting that “it’s pretty much one viewpoint” and then “there’s usually one token conservative. So I was that conservative for two years on the show.”
Schnacky was curious to know why Bure accepted the job knowing she was going to have to deal with the challenges of being the “token” conservative voice.
“I tried to turn that job down multiple times,” Bure answered. “I wasn’t even looking for that job. I actually didn’t even know I was up for that job.”
Bure said she had guest hosted for the show two or three times. Then she got a call offering her a spot as one of the regular cohosts representing the conservative point of view. But she turned the offer down. “[My husband] Val and I prayed about it, and I was like, I know they talk so much politics on the show, and I’m not comfortable with that,” she said. “So, no.”
