- Hallmark Channel “The Christmas Contest”Offers “Fuller House”Fans with an “alternate ending.”
- John Brotherton stars as an exe, while Candace Cameron Bure stars as Candace Cameron Bure.
- Insider spoke to Brotherton and Bure about their reunion.
Candace Cameron Bure was directing her latest Hallmark film when this happened. “The Christmas Contest,” where she plays a woman who unexpectedly reunites with her ex to help raise money for a charity, she knew just the man in mind to play her onscreen former flame — her “Fuller House”John Brotherton, costar
On “Fuller House,”DJ Tanner (Bure), who was close to getting engaged to Matt Harmon (Brotherton), fled to Japan after he proposed. The
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Series ended its five-season run by ending with a double ceremony that saw them marrying each other.
Bure told Insider recently that she wanted to make things right for the fans of the couple. Brotherton was her costar. “The Christmas Contest,“Her 10th Hallmark holiday film.
The former “View”Insider was interviewed by Brotherton and the host. Brotherton explained that it made sense for her to ask an ex to play her ex in this film. Brotherton plays a overworked businesswoman who discovers love is more important that money.
“It just makes the movie and the acting way more fun, because there’s lots to play with, versus meeting an actor for the first time and then pretending that you have this long history with them and you’re going to fall in and out of love with them,”She said.
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Brotherton stated that he took the opportunity to meet his former costar.
“There was a whole fan base that … still reach out to me to this day and probably Candace as well,” Brotherton said, “[that] were hoping for an alternative ending.”
Despite the fact that the characters are in “The Christmas Contest”Although they have different names, Lara & Ben, the two actors onscreen share a similar spark as DJ & Matt. “Fuller House,”Before it was ended in 2020.
Bure claimed that her favorite scenes in “The Christmas Contest” are the intimate scenes
Bure finds quiet moments in holiday films appealing. She describes her favorite scene as one that is intimate. It is Lara and Ben sharing their pasts and what they have been doing since their split and their future plans.
“There’s a scene where we lie on the floor and stare at the ceiling and it’s our first heart-to-heart,”She said. “I just love that because those are the moments where you get to be still and have real emotion and feelings, and that’s where you hope to grab the audience.”
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“The Christmas Contest”The movie is the latest in a long line Hallmark holiday movies. Bure said that the reason it has been so popular during the holidays is because of the “consistency”They offer.
“You know that there’s going to be love. There’s going to be someone who walks away at some point, but there’s always a happy ending,”She said.
“The Christmas Contest,”BJ Harrison and Barbara Niven star in the film. It premieres on Hallmark Channel at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Sunday, November 28th.