Why Elizabeth Olsen Calls Doing Her Own Stunts "Ridiculous"
Candace Cameron Bure revisited a scary infinitesimal connected set.
While reflecting connected filming stunts for Fuller House, the 48-year-old revealed she "almost died" erstwhile the zipline connected an American Ninja Warrior-inspired obstacle people malfunctioned and astir fell connected her.
"I went done the people and astatine the end, I zip-lined diagonally the magnitude of the surviving country and past I landed connected a platform," Candace explained to costars Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber on their How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast's April 18 episode. "But during rehearsal, the rig was not acceptable up correctly and determination was nary information halt connected the extremity of it."
"When I landed disconnected the zip enactment and stopped," she continued, "the full mechanism—which is each metallic and very, precise heavy—slid close disconnected the way and came close adjacent to my caput wrong an inch."
It was a infinitesimal Candace's costars remembered well, with Jodie, 42, noting the machinery dented the level and broke the set's stairs. And Candace noted however dire things could person been.
"If I conscionable adjacent shifted my value the tiniest bit," she explained, "it would person astir apt breached my cervix and landed close connected apical of my head."
Candace besides recalled costar Scott Weinger's absorption to seeing the rig astir autumn connected her, adding helium "couldn't adjacent get a connection retired due to the fact that it happened wrong 1 second."
Luckily, aft that near-miss, Candace didn't person to execute the zipline stunt again. Andrea shared that occurrence manager Mark Cendrowski rapidly shifted gears. "Mark was like, ‘We're not doing this stunt,'" the 47-year-old said. "'Redo the full acceptable due to the fact that we're not doing that stunt anymore.'"
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The country was yet filmed with a acceptable of monkey bars instead.
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And portion Candace described that infinitesimal arsenic "traumatic," she emphasized however overmuch she loved filming the Full House spinoff arsenic an adult, particularly since she sometimes felt self-conscious during the OG bid arsenic a teenager.
"It was truthful bully to not care," she admitted. "That was the best—I thought, 'the goofier, the better!'"
Keep speechmaking to instrumentality a look backmost astatine immoderate fascinating facts astir Fuller House.
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