Actress Jodie Sweetin appears to be at odds with her former “Full House” co-star Candace Cameron Bure over a controversial scene at the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony.
On Sunday, Bure posted a video to Instagram decrying what she and other viewers perceived as a drag parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” the 15th-century painting that depicts Jesus Christ and his 12 disciples having a fateful final meal.
“It’s disgusting to watch such an incredible event taking place over the next two weeks and have its opening ceremony be a total desecration and mockery of the Christian faith with its interpretation of the Last Supper,” she said in the video, which can be viewed here.
Of course, Boulet was among the conservative figures who criticized the performance. According to the opening ceremony’s artistic director, Thomas Joly, the scene was not intended to be “The Last Supper” but as a homage to Dionysus, the Greek god of decadence and festivity.
Sweetin reinforced Jolie’s comments on Monday by posting a short video to her Instagram Stories in which comedian Walter Masterson explained why the Olympics chose to portray the Greek god, who symbolizes “celebration, festival and ritual drama.”
“Tell me you don’t know about art or history. Don’t tell me you don’t know about art or history,” she wrote in the video’s caption, according to People and E! News.
By Tuesday, Bure appeared to update the caption of her Instagram post in response to Jolie’s remarks, writing, “Desire, madness, [and] “Religious Ecstasy” was somehow “acceptable for children to watch.”
“Either way, I don’t believe it,” she wrote.
Bure and Sweetin starred together on Full House from 1987 to 1995, and then in the Netflix sequel series Fuller House from 2016 to 2020. The two actors seem to have a friendly relationship off-screen, and have made numerous red carpet appearances together in recent years.
But Sweetin has publicly and repeatedly rejected Bure’s conservative beliefs, and last year she said she was “disheartened” to learn that Great American Family, the Christian network where Bure serves as chief creative officer, had decided to air her latest film, “Craft Me a Romance.”
In 2022, Bure faced backlash after telling The Wall Street Journal that “The Great American Family” would only highlight “traditional marriage” and that audiences shouldn’t expect an LGBTQ storyline in the Christmas movie.