If you’ve been following along on Twitter, you may have noticed my (re)tweets about the most recent family night movie, Truth Be Told starring Candace Cameron Bure and David James Elliott. If not, tune in right now to Fox for the premiere event and in between commercials, check out what the two stars had to say in a recent interview with the blogosphere. Check it out:

Annie Morgan (Candace Cameron Bure, “Full House”), Colorado’s leading marriage counselor, makes a living by preaching that honesty is the key to successful long-term relationships. Ironically, Annie has never been married and doesn’t always follow her own advice. Through a misunderstanding, Annie receives an invitation for her and her spouse to join media mogul Terrance Bishop (Ronny Cox, “Stargate SG-1”), at his New Mexico ranch to discuss her dream job: hosting a radio advice program. Fearful that being single will ruin her chance of a lifetime, Annie conspires with Mark Crane (David James Elliott, “JAG”), an old college friend, recent widower and father of two teenagers, to pose as her husband for the weekend. A series of comical misunderstandings color the trip, leaving Annie emotionally involved with Mark’s family and battling with her own conscience, in the all-new TRUTH BE TOLD.

How did you find a way to connect to each other to make the character relationship so warm and believable?

David: It’s always a challenge when you first meet somebody, especially when you need to have that connection. If it’s not there, that’s a lie that’s really hard to fake, but Candace is a really open person, and she was easy to connect to. Aside from her physical attributes—being so beautiful and talented—she’s just an open, available person. I think for me it was effortless to connect with her. I, on the other hand, am a little more difficult to get into, and so the challenge probably lied with Candace.

Candace: You’re making me laugh, David. Very sweet. No, we had a great time. You either have chemistry with people or you don’t and I had just an awesome time with David.

David: Probably the most difficult thing was trying to get through the cold. It was so cold and I’m from Canada, and this cold scared me. It was bitter cold.

Candace: Yes, when you see the breath coming out when you watch the movie, all that is real. It was in single digits when we were doing the movie.

David: Everybody, quite frankly, in the film from the director to the producer, Craig Anderson—Jonathan Frakes directed it and all the other actors were really—they came to play. They came and they put their best face on. We endured a lot of physical hardship, but you know everybody was a real, true professional. It was a great environment to work in, and that’s certainly not always the case.

Were there any standout moments on set and while filming?

Cameron: I think for me it was more about all of us huddling in these tents in between all of the takes, because it was so, it was so cold. I can’t even tell you enough. We had these little pop up tents with heaters in them, because we were kind of in the middle of nowhere in Santa Fe on this ranch. Even the trailers, or the makeup and hair trailers, they were a drive away. So that’s kind of the one thing that I’m just going to take away from the movie—all the times we were just laughing, trying to unthaw our toes and fingers, huddling together in these tents and just standing there curled up in David’s jacket so he was keeping me warm, too, in between the takes.

David: It probably added to—it probably helped to build the chemistry with all the players, because we were forced to spend long periods of time with each other in a 4×4 tent huddled around a small heater. So there was no escaping one another. I think the film, as a result, everybody walked away really—and certainly was my experience—missing the gang when we got home, which is one of those things that often happens. You force these wonderful quite deeply personal—you get… you talk about things that you often wouldn’t with somebody you just met, and then you walk away and good chance you may never see that person again.

What was it like to work with Danny Gokey and Kurt Warner?
David: Kurt was a great guy. He was in and out fairly quickly, came with his wife. He was charming, and was actually—everybody was talking afterwards with him, “Well, Kurt was really good.” Everyone, for some reason, had expected that he might be a little stiff, but not at all. Really charming, amenable guy, and played himself with aplomb, I felt. Danny Gokey was great, too. Very funny, nice guy. He just came in … he had no airs or pretense. They both were in and out and delivered a great job, so, thankfully.

Candace: Yes, I was there the day that Kurt Warner was on set, but I didn’t actually have a scene with him. But I met him and his wife and took a picture with them. I was excited. Then just love Danny Gokey so much. What a great heart he has, and—amazing voice.

Aside from honesty, what are three other keys to a successful long-term marriage? For Candace, would one of those three happen to be the family wine that you guys just unveiled?

Candace: (laughs) Wine is always good for any marriage. I just had some over dinner. You know, my three things that I always say are putting your spouse’s needs before your own. That’s important. I’m not a big fan of the word compromise because I think that you should respect your spouse and want to put their needs first. And in return, usually when that happens, your spouse would want to do the same for you. It’s super important to make time for each other. My husband and I like to have a date night at least once a week or a lunch date. The third thing is to have lots of great sex. (laughs) Give it up.

David: With each other.

Candace: With each other, not with anyone else. That happens to go away for people when they’re married…not a good thing.

David: You know what, all those things are absolutely true. Communication is a big one. Trust and communication. Those are the two biggies for me. Let’s embrace the truth, except when to do so would injure them or others, right? You don’t want to go, “Hey, how do I look in this? Do I look fat in this?” or those stupid questions, you never want to tell the truth if it’s going to hurt somebody, especially when it’s insignificant. But trust and communication.

When FOX got off the ground, it was known for being more of a rebellious network. Now it’s really become a good place for family programming. How do the two of you see the TV industry now as opposed to when you first started?

David: Well, I think what excites me is there are certainly more avenues for programming. Having grown up with the three television stations, ABC—the three networks, that was all we had when I was a kid. Now it’s like an ocean of programming opportunity, and things are changing. There’s a lot of downsides to it, and there’s some upsides. Network programming definitely have a new challenge finding their audience is continually moving to the cable programming, which has less standards and practice things to stymie their artistic output. So, networks like FOX and the others are being forced to find their avenue, and certainly I guess FOX is embracing the fact that there is a definite market for this type of programming. I applaud it. I think it’s great. It’s tough to find stuff for the family out there, so hopefully it continues.

Candace: It is awesome that there are a lot more choices with the amount of stations that we have, but because of that—and like he said with the standards and practices being much more lenient on those cable networks—I’ve found over the years there’s such a division now of programming for adults. Then very specific programming for children, which can be good at times, but in that—and I really find in the last ten years, that that took away from family programming in general. So we have all those old shows like The Cosby Show and Family Ties or Who’s The Boss or Full House—those types of shows that really just disappeared.

David: What about Jag? Come on.

Candace: And Jag. They just kind of disappeared and that’s the part that, as a mom now and having young children, that I wish there were more television shows, that I could sit down with my kids that weren’t just specific to them or just specific to me. I’m happy now that because there are so many stations now every station is trying to find its own, and I’m happy that some of the major networks are now coming back and saying, “Hey, there are people that still want that, that quality family programming.” I’m happy to be a part of that. I’m an advocate for it, and I believe everyone can have their choices, but let’s not get lost, that this is definitely something in America that families want and desire.

Tune in right now to Fox to watch the original family movie, Truth Be Told.