Candace Cameron Bure Reveals She “Almost Died” on Fuller House

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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.

E! News reached retired to Netflix but has not heard back.

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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1. "We were trying to bash immoderate benignant of spinoff" for "so galore years" Stamos, who serves arsenic a producer, said of the sequel bid erstwhile helium announced it was happening connected Jimmy Kimmel Live! successful 2015. Stamos later revealed connected Instagram that "every azygous web and streamer" said nary to the thought earlier Netflix decided to reboot it.

2. While anticipation was highly precocious for the sequel series, the reviews were little than kind. Not that the formed cared, with Cameron Bure telling E! News, "The critics ne'er had a bully happening to accidental astir Full House and yet it ran for 8 years successful primetime and past it's ne'er been disconnected the aerial successful 30 years. So it's a testament to what the fans privation and not what the critics think. If determination are immoderate antagonistic reappraisal that's however we consciousness astir it with Fuller House; we did this for the fans and we deliberation they're going to perfectly emotion it."

3. And emotion it they did, with IndieWire reporting that Fuller House was apt the most-watched TV amusement successful 2016, according to information from Symphony Advanced Media. Despite Netflix being known for ne'er releasing ratings info, Symphony's finding suggested FH drew a whopping 14.4 cardinal viewers betwixt the ages of 18 and 49 wrong 35 days of its bid premiere, with an awesome 10.4 demo rating. Those numbers (if accurate) outperformed The Walking Dead, past TV's highest rated show. 

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4. Despite leaving the acting satellite aft the archetypal bid ended successful 1995, going connected to enactment successful academia, Barber had nary hesitations astir reprising the relation of Kimmy Gibbler arsenic 1 of the caller show' 3 leads. 

5. While they yet settled connected making grown-up Kimmy a enactment planner, determination were respective different ideas, including maybe she is simply a translator for the United Nations and she speaks similar 4 antithetic languages," oregon Kimmy "having a snack-making concern astatine home, similar Gibbler's Nibblers. She ran her ain cooky concern retired of the basement of the home," Barber revealed to THR.

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6. Producers initially envisioned the Olsen twins reprising their relation arsenic Michelle, but Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who person since retired from acting but are inactive uber-famous, declined the opportunity, starring to endless headlines and in-jokes passim the series' run.  "Although Ashley and Mary-Kate volition not beryllium a portion of Fuller House, I cognize however overmuch Full House has meant to them, and they are inactive precise overmuch considered family, "Boyett said astatine the time. "It has been breathtaking to spot however they person built their nonrecreational careers, and I enactment their prime to absorption connected their manner brands and assorted concern endeavors. I admit their enactment and bully wishes towards Fuller House."

7. Despite speculation, Elizabeth Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley's small sister, was ne'er officially offered the accidental to instrumentality implicit the relation successful a winking impermanent appearance. "If I did, I'm beauteous definite nary 1 connected my squad heard it," she told us. "I don't cognize wherever that started." (It started with the show's brag BTW.)

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8. While helium was lone a impermanent successful play one, Weinger was promoted to a bid regular successful play two, with Steve and DJ yet getting backmost unneurotic successful play three, thing the writers had been wanting to hole since the archetypal bid broke them up. "The information that the producers chose to interruption them up, and the storylines that followed, were not large crowd-pleasers. That ever bothered me," Franklin, who near the archetypal bid aft play 5 said. "So I looked astatine this amusement arsenic an accidental to fto Steve and D.J. get backmost unneurotic someday and person a accidental and spot what happens

9. Fun information for the DJ and Steve shippers: Cameron Bure and Weinger really went connected a day IRL backmost erstwhile they were teens erstwhile helium asked her to spell to the Aladdin premiere with him (He voiced Aladdin BTW!)...she doesn't didn't recognize it was a date. "I had nary idea...and I retrieve benignant of thinking, 'Scott and I are conscionable friends and helium invited maine to the premiere. But is this a day oregon is it not?'" she told TooFab. (For the record: they both hold present it was SO a date.)

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10. In play three, Sweetin's real-life wounded had to beryllium incorporated into the amusement aft she broke her ankle and tibia successful aggregate places climbing implicit a obstruction to retrieve her son's toys. "They person to constitute it in," Cameron Bure told E! News astir the injury. "It's going to beryllium written in." Sweetin added, "There's nary hiding that I can't locomotion and I tin lone beryllium a houseplant successful truthful galore episodes wherever I'm conscionable stuck somewhere."

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11. The Netflix bid had to wholly recreate the Tanner location connected the Warner Bros. lot, which should've been easy...except each of the archetypal drawings of the acceptable had been discarded.  "I can't archer you however galore episodes," accumulation decorator Jerry Dunn told EW of having to ticker hundreds of hours of the archetypal show. "I mean, conscionable a ton."

12. One indispensable prop that hadn't been lost? The surviving country couch, with the checkered emotion spot inactive serving arsenic the room's cardinal portion each these years later. "The acceptable decorator and I were conscionable blown away," Dunn said of uncovering the archetypal pieces. "They were successful bully capable information that we're utilizing them still."

13. In 2016, Franklin bought the San Francisco location utilized for the Tanner location exterior shots (after the erstwhile homeowners refused to fto it beryllium filmed for the Netflix series) for conscionable implicit $4 million. He planned to renovate and usage it for filming, successful summation to perchance renting it retired oregon starting a depository for fans to visit. However, helium put the location up for merchantability earlier this year for $6 million. 

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14. Mr. Woodchuck, Joey's chipmunk puppet, made a instrumentality successful the revival, but it wasn't really the archetypal prop. "I kept the archetypal Mr. Woodchuck. And past my canine Ranger ate his face," Coulier revealed during a Reddit AMA. And the caller mentation came from nary different than Jimmy Fallon, who had it recreated for a reunion sketch successful 2014. 

15. After archetypal histrion Jason Marsden diminution to marque an quality successful play two, Queer arsenic Folk prima Hal Sparks took implicit the relation of Nelson, DJ's ex-boyfriend. While Marsden didn't uncover wherefore helium decided not to return, helium wrote connected twitter that the producers tried "their darnedest" to get him to bash so. He did person 1 request: #KeepNelsonShort. 

16. 30 years aft past appearing successful a task together, Cameron Bure's older member Kirk Cameron, known for his deed sitcom Growing Pains, made a impermanent quality successful the 5th and last play (he appeared successful 1 occurrence of the archetypal series' tally arsenic DJ's cousin). Calling her brother's cameo a "really amusive surprise," Cameron Bure told Closer Weekly, "It's a small spot of, like, a '90s episode, truthful Lisa Loeb is successful it arsenic good arsenic my member Kirk...that week I was directing arsenic well...it was a imagination travel existent to nonstop my brother."

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17. Like Michelle Tanner connected the OG series, the relation of DJ's babe lad Tommy is played by twins Fox and Dashiell Messitt. And similar their predecessors, the boys were experiencing each kinds of firsts connected the Netflix hit's set. "When they started astatine 7 months old, they didn't adjacent cognize however to crawl. And successful the process of doing the amusement they started crawling and started walking," their mom Kacy Andrews told EW. "So a batch of milestones portion they were working." 

18. As the ongoing assemblage bribery ungraded continues to play out and Loughlin awaits trial, Aunt Becky volition not look successful Fuller House's last season. Still, the Fuller House household was sticking by their co-star. "Where there's a batch of heart, there's a batch of love—and a loving household sticks unneurotic nary substance what," said Cameron Bure portion accepting an grant with the cast astatine the 2019 Kids' Choice Awards. "They instrumentality unneurotic done the hard times, they enactment each other, they promote 1 another, they commune for each other, and they basal by their broadside nary substance however pugnacious it gets."

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19. In 2018, Franklin was abruptly fto spell from the series aft the workplace received complaints astir his behaviour successful the writer's country and connected set, Variety reported astatine the time. Per the outlet's sources, he'd been accused of being verbally abusive to staffers and making inappropriate statements successful the writers' room, including sexually charged comments astir his idiosyncratic relationships and enactment life. 

20. Despite reportedly being 1 of the streaming giant's highest rated shows, Netflix made the determination to extremity the bid aft 5 seasons. At the time, a root told E! News the formed and unit were excited to person that last play bid due to the fact that they were adjacent to being canceled altogether. For Netflix and the pacing of the show, 5 seasons is simply a cleanable run, the root added.

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