Vice: It’s been four years since Jackass 2. Were you guys always going to do a number three, or was it up in the air for a while?
Johnny Knoxville: After a Jackass movie finishes shooting, you must be feeling pretty destroyed. It probably takes a long time to recover.
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Jackass 2 A classic.
And it is. It really is.
What’s the creative process like when you’re coming up with stunts for a new movie? Do a few of you sit down and talk, or do you shoot around emails or phone calls?
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I always liked how when you guys do something like this, you bring in experts for that sense of authenticity.
That seems smart. And by negative vibes you mean someone acting kind of squirrelly or pissy or freaked out?
It was probably an Indian burial ground at some point too.
OK, now I’m looking at the photo of you with a huge bowl of dildos.
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I was going to say, you could chip a tooth on one of those things.
What about this photo that looks like it’s a post-football tackle?
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really Holy shit. That’s great.
I have a photo here now of Steve-O holding a trumpet, wearing a band-major kind of uniform, getting hit in the balls by a ram…
Is it hard to get an animal wrangler who knows how to get a ram to come at you like that?
Now this next picture, I don’t know what’s going on in it but it looks like it could be really bad. It’s Steve-O, and it looks like he’s about to drink something kind of disgusting.
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The final photo here looks like it’s making fun of those old Maxell ads from the 80s, where the guy is getting his hair blown back by his stereo.
Do you go on the shoots even when it’s not you in the stunts?