Candace Cameron Bure is known today for speaking openly about her faith and acting in and producing light-hearted films for Great American Family. It may come as a surprise that in 1997, just two years after Full house went off the air, she played against type in a witch episode of Life and me.

“I remember when they asked me if I was comfortable and asked me to take on this role,” Bure said of her role as Millie, a real-life witch, in the current issue of Pod meets world Podcast hosted by former cast members Rider Strong, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle. “They asked, ‘How do you feel about playing a witch?'”

Her answer was simple: “Well, I’m an actress. So, totally fine. It’s fun. It’s a sitcom. It’s a comedy.”

In addition, it was Life and I.

“It still felt like a very safe place to do it,” Bure said, “because of what the show itself was about. And it’s a family show. So I felt comfortable in that regard. But it was a little weird. I mean, I remember saying some of those lines now after seeing it. And I was like, yeah, that doesn’t feel quite right.”

Still, Bure said she probably wouldn’t take on that role today, in which Millie performs satanic Halloween rituals.

“If there was a part that called for the evil witch, but it was redemptive at the end, then that’s exactly what I always look for in my stories and stories of faith, whether they’re believers or not,” she said. “I just want redemption. So if the common thread was that evil is good, let’s keep practicing that, then my answer would be no.”

In this case, the episode “The Witches of Penbrook” ended with the witch who was with Jack (Matthew Lawrence) simply failing, the former co-stars agreed.

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Bure had good things to say about her appearance on the show, but not so much about watching it afterwards. She thought, “I said that?”

One of the sentences that made her flinch: “I am the queen of darkness.”

She recalled: “They told me to say it in the most evil, growly voice I could imagine, my demon voice. And I thought, I didn’t even know I had one. But as an actor, you’re just like that: OK, let’s just have fun with it and do this. But I laugh when I watch this show.”

Just last month, Bure was among those who criticized the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, claiming it mocked The Last SupperOfficials, however, said it was by no means a famous painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, but rather Dionysus, the Greek god of feasts and wine.