Candace Cameron Bure opened up about a harrowing experience on the set of Fuller House that nearly turned fatal during a stunt gone wrong.
Speaking on the April 18 episode of the How Rude, Tanneritos! podcast with co-hosts Jodie Sweetin and Andrea Barber, the 48-year-old actress recounted the terrifying incident that occurred while filming a zip line stunt inspired by American Ninja Warrior.
Bure detailed how, during a rehearsal, the zip line mechanism malfunctioned. “I went through the course and at the end, I zip-lined diagonally the length of the living room and then I landed on a platform,” she said. “But during rehearsal, the rig was not set up correctly and there was no safety stop on the end of it.”
The mistake nearly resulted in serious injury. “When I landed off the zip line and stopped, the whole mechanism—which is all metal and very, very heavy—slid right off the track and came right next to my head within an inch.”
The impact of the falling equipment was severe enough to dent the floor and break the set’s stairs, a moment that Sweetin recalled vividly. The potential danger of the situation was not lost on Bure, who reflected, “If I just even shifted my weight the tiniest bit, it would have probably broken my neck and landed right on top of my head.”
The incident prompted immediate changes on set. Barber shared that the episode’s director, Mark Cendrowski, decided against repeating the stunt. “Mark was like, ‘We’re not doing this stunt,'” she relayed. “‘Redo the whole set because we’re not doing that stunt anymore.'” Instead, the scene was altered to include monkey bars.
Despite the close call, Bure expressed her fondness for working on the Full House spinoff, contrasting her adult experience with her earlier insecurities as a teenager on the original show. “It was so nice to not care,” she admitted. “That was the best—I thought, ‘the goofier, the better!'”
