Johnny Knoxville.Photo: Dia Dipasupil/Getty
Jackass Foreverisn’t short onjaw-dropping stunts, but according toJohnny Knoxville, there was one wild idea that didn’t make the cut.
“We did have something on this film that we wanted to do that we weren’t allowed to do because it was going to be a $10 million deductible,” Knoxville, 50, said in a recent Zoom interview withIndieWire.
He couldn’t get into specifics, either, because he said he and his fellowJackasscastmates “may do it one day” in the future.
“But it was a surgery that no one needs,” Knoxville added.
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Johnny Knoxville with the cast ofJackass Forever.paramount pictures/ youtube
“My doctor said I can’t take another shot to the head, I’ve had so many concussions. Iput my family through enough, quite honestly. I don’t think I have anything else to prove,” Knoxville tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, on newsstands now, of potentially being ready to throw in theJackasstowel.
The fourth film from original stars Knoxville,Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Wee Man and more,Jackass Foreverups the ante with stunts involving bears, bulls, scorpions and hordes of bees. In one harrowing — and hilarious — sequence, Knoxville gets shot out of a cannon.
“Luckily, I’m not very in touch withmy body, which has cost me, but we got some great footage because of it,” he tells PEOPLE.
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Knoxville — who’s dad to sonRocko, 12, and daughterArlo, 10, with wifeNaomi Nelson, as well as daughter Madison, 26, with ex-wife Melanie Lynn Clapp — has no desire for his kids to keepJackassalive.
“My son, he’s got thesame gene that my father hadand I think that I have, so I definitely want to keep him out of it,” he tells PEOPLE. “I made it very clear to him he won’t be going into the family business.”
In Thursday previews alone,Jackass Foreverraked in $1.7 million at the box office, according toVariety. It currently holds a 90% rating onRotten Tomatoes, with a 95% Audience Score.
Jackass Foreveris in theaters now.
source: people.com
