{"id":1754224,"date":"2022-11-28T18:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754224"},"modified":"2022-11-28T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T23:20:13","slug":"brett-cooper-i-saw-first-hand-whats-behind-hollywoods-shameful-shunning-of-candace-cameron-bure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brett-cooper-i-saw-first-hand-whats-behind-hollywoods-shameful-shunning-of-candace-cameron-bure\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Cooper: I Saw First-Hand What\u2019s Behind Hollywood\u2019s Shameful Shunning Of Candace Cameron Bure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrett-cooper-i-saw-first-hand-whats-behind-hollywoods-shameful-shunning-of-candace-cameron-bure%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754224&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cThey want to know if Brett is really a lesbian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those are actual words that came out of my talent manager\u2019s mouth when I was a 16-year-old actress.<\/p>\n<p>By that point, I had been acting professionally for about seven years, so of course, I\u2019d experienced my fair share of uncontrollable rejections: She\u2019s too tall. She\u2019s too brunette. She needs to be skinnier. She needs to be heavier. You name it, I\u2019d heard it, but this was new.<\/p>\n<p>I was about three auditions deep for a new Netflix film that was already slated to star a host of major A-Listers \u2013 people I had dreamed of acting alongside, and the character for whom I was auditioning was a lesbian high schooler. Her sexuality didn\u2019t phase me. I\u2019m an actor, I can play anything. That\u2019s literally what I\u2019m hired to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after my last meeting with the casting directors and creative team, my talent manager got a call from the producer\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>They said I had convinced\u00a0them\u00a0I was lesbian, but they wanted to be sure because they wanted a real teen lesbian to play the role. Obviously I convinced them\u2026 again, I\u2019m an actor.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7bYyWCCCLHDU0ZuNzGNTtg\/featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO \u201cTHE COMMENTS SECTION WITH BRETT COOPER\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My manager called my mom, who was appalled they were asking such a question of a minor, and they informed the producers that sadly, I was straight.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, I wish my team and I had pushed back. I wish they had said, \u201cWhy does that matter? She\u2019s 16, she\u2019s never dated anyone \u2013 male or female. She can play the role.\u201d But we didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, I didn\u2019t move forward in the audition process for that film.<\/p>\n<p>All of this to say, hiring actors based on their identity is nothing new for Hollywood. Just like telling stories with political and cultural agendas is nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Academy of Motion Pictures even rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/news\/academy-establishes-representation-and-inclusion-standards-oscarsr-eligibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new guidelines<\/a> for films to be considered for the Oscars. These guidelines include how many marginalized actors you hire, whether you\u2019re telling the story of an oppressed community, the diversity of your crew, and even the style of your marketing and film release. This is the new industry standard.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is only the standard for one ideology, and this is abundantly clear in how the media has handled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/candace-cameron-bure-unfollows-jodie-sweetin-as-she-backs-jojo-siwa-in-traditional-marriage-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Candace Cameron Bure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The former \u201cFull House\u201d star and Hallmark movie darling made waves this holiday season when she announced she was stepping away from Hallmark to focus on a new creative endeavor: her production company, \u201cThe Great American Family.\u201d\u00a0This new group will be rooted in Christian and American values, and they\u2019re putting faith, family, and country at the cornerstone of their productions. This is an unsurprising move for Bure, who is outspoken about her faith and her conservative beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/candace-cameron-bure-great-american-family-11668205295\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Bure and \u201cThe Great American Family\u201c\u00a0CEO Bill Abbott, were asked if their productions would feature LGBTQ couples, as Hallmark has begun to do. Bure <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/candace-cameron-bure-great-american-family-gay-couples-1235432521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replied<\/a>, \u201cI think that \u201cThe Great American Family\u201c\u00a0will keep traditional marriage at the core.\u201d Abbott added, \u201cIt\u2019s certainly the year 2022, so we\u2019re aware of the trends. There\u2019s no whiteboard that says, \u2018Yes, this\u2019 or \u2018No, we\u2019ll never go here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And this shook the internet. Bure\u2019s name was plastered on every trending page and the cover of every significant publication for being \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/maren-morris-addresses-candace-cameron-bure-homophobic-comments-1234632615\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-gay<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/candace-cameron-bure-new-christmas-movies-wont-feature-lgbt-love-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excluding actors and storylines<\/a> from her new company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why are Hollywood and its audiences so concerned with Bure creating a production company that will support her own values and interests? Isn\u2019t this what they do every day? Isn\u2019t that what I experienced as a 16-year-old actress?<\/p>\n<p>For example, in the same week Bure faced this media firestorm, Gabrielle Union announced she would be producing a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/events\/gabrielle-union-and-eva-longoria-lgbtq-1235434301\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gay wedding rom-com<\/a>. Social media cheered. Earlier this year, Billy Eichner won the \u201cstunning and brave\u201d award for producing a film whose cast was made up entirely of <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/scene\/news\/billy-eichner-bros-queer-cast-1235286489\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LGBTQ actors<\/a>. Where was the outcry about him excluding other actors?<\/p>\n<p>These artists are praised for being progressive and innovative. Bure is villainized.<\/p>\n<p>She shouldn\u2019t be. She should be applauded. If one group is allowed to have an agenda, hire based on identity, and tell stories they relate to, the other side is as well. And not only do they have that right, but they should use it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the beauty of living in a free country where we have freedom of speech and expression, though that is something Hollywood often forgets.<\/p>\n<p>Bure\u2019s new production company isn\u2019t taking anything from Hollywood or suppressing anyone\u2019s voice, she\u2019s simply making content that is aligned with her values. Just like they do. Every single day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThey want to know if Brett is really a lesbian.\u201d Those are actual words that came out of my talent manager\u2019s mouth when I was a 16-year-old actress. By that point, I had been acting professionally for about seven years, so of course, I\u2019d experienced my fair share of uncontrollable rejections: She\u2019s too tall. She\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":746,"featured_media":1470093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}