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Earlier this year, longtime Jackass frontman and generally beloved Hollywood star Johnny Knoxville announced that a fifth film in the franchise would be hitting movie theaters this summer. According to Knoxville, it’ll be the final Jackass movie with the OG crew.
The Jackass series ran on MTV briefly from October 2000 to August 2001, but then went on to produce four mainline feature films and a few of spin-offs (Wild Boyz, Dirty Grandpa) and director’s cuts. The most recent film, Jackass Forever, released in 2022 and was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics alike.
The upcoming fifth film, however, will be the OG crew’s last.
“This will be the last one. This is the natural place to end. So it’s going to be absolutely awful,” Johnny Knoxville told Rolling Stone in a recent interview.
What Jackass 5 won’t include, though are one of Johnny Knoxville’s trademark stunts: getting gorged by bulls. Knoxville, in fact, was literally moved to tears over the idea that he can not long “play” with bulls.
Watch Johnny Knoxville be literally moved to tears over the idea that he can no longer do stunts with bulls
“I don’t want to get emotional. I cant… god damn. I hate when this happens. I cant mess around with bulls anymore. Yeah [it makes me emotional]. It’s terrible. I’m trying not to… indulge those thoughts,” Knoxville said while choked up.
The reason that the legendary stuntman/actor can no longer participate in bull stunts is because of the amount of head injuries he’s accumulated from them, with the latest, which occurred while filming Jackass Forever, requiring major and lengthy recovery.
“That took five or six months to recover. It was catastrophic thinking, ruminating, the whole world was closing in,” Knoxville explained.
“I have a lot of sympathy for myself then, because your brain’s feeding you terrible information. My mind just turned against me over five or six months. People would tell me, ‘Your brain is playing tricks on you.’ I’m like, ‘No, no, it’s happening.’ But nothing is happening. My mind just fell off a cliff,” he continued.
“But then I got on medicine, and it started turning around. I started feeling like myself again. And then, you slowly come out of it. But I can remember exactly how I felt then and everything that was happening in my head. It was frightening.”
Given that Knoxville is unable to partake in bull-related stunts and that this will be his last ever Jackass movie, you can bet your mortgage that he’ll find a way to make up for it elsewhere.