Jackass Forever is now available digitally and will arrive on both Blu-ray and DVD on April 19. The hilarious film features many returning stars, plus several new members of the Jackass crew.
“Celebrate the joy of a perfectly executed shot to the groin as Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, and the rest of the gang return for another round of hilarious, wildly absurd, and often dangerous displays of stunts and comedy,” reads the official synopsis.
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ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Jackass Forever stars Wee Man and Preston Lacy about their stunts, Johnny Knoxville’s foray into professional wrestling, and much more.
Tyler Treese: Wee Man, Johnny Knoxville has WrestleMania 38 coming up, but you had a big showdown with Brock Lesnar, who bodyslammed you through a table. Has anybody ever thrown you around like that before?
Wee Man: Not like that. That was probably the worst ever, and Preston, my buddy right there, was sitting right across from me and I had never seen him laugh as hard as he did when that was going down.
Are we ever gonna see you inside the ring, Wee Man?
Wee Man: I’m not gonna say no. So, that’s all I can say right now.
Preston Lacy: Why, has Brock Lesnar been talking some smack?
Wee Man: No, but I might fire up Brock Lesnar [laughs].
Preston, shitting your pants is never fun, but it does make for great content. When a bit goes wrong in that manner, you still have that upside of “Hey, at least this is going to be memorable.” Just not in the way you thought, right?
Lacy: Yeah. There’s a moment where it goes from God awful until you start to realize, wait a minute, this is probably going to make the movie just because it’s so messed up.
Wee Man, there was a big break between Jackass 3 and Forever. Talk me through getting back into that frame of mind, and once you start doing those stunts, do you find yourself back in that groove?
Wee Man: Oh, totally. Like four years prior, we were already all amped trying to get the movie going again. And by the time when Johnny Knoxville said, “All right, we can push the go button,” we were fully amped. That first bit you see, human ramp, with Preston underneath and all that, that was day one. It was go time and we were all, like…you could tell the camaraderie and how much fun and how much we were ready to just do this movie.
Preston, we get to see so many new faces that fit right into the core group. How impressed were you with these new newcomers and how well they fit in with the OGs?
Lacy: It had to be hard on them and especially, you know, sometimes we mess with them. We were on a break one time and we kept calling ’em and asking them why they weren’t on set that day, saying “Did you get fired?” Oh, man. It was fun to mess with them. We love ’em all though. They’re good kids, even though they’re not that young.
Wee Man, Jackass Forever had a really lovely tribute to Ryan Dunn at the end. Were there any stunts during the film where you’re like, “This would’ve been a great stunt for Ryan?”
Wee Man: Oh, all the time. All the time, I was like that. Ryan would’ve loved the marching band one. Uh, what else? He would’ve loved…oh, there’s just so many things we filmed and they’re coming out in 4.5 that I’m thinking of, I don’t want to give it away, but there were days we would sit there and we’re like, “Oh, I don’t know if I want to do this,” And we would tell each other, “Ryan would do it.” So then it would, like, amp us up, you know? So yeah, this one, this one was for Ryan.
Preston, the punching bag stunt. Were there any reservations to doing that? I feel like if you’re doing that, you just can’t really say no to anything.
Lacy: No, I was behind on footage. Remember that, Wee Man?
Wee Man: Oh yeah.
Lacy: And it was like a few weeks in and it was like, “Man, everybody’s getting footage and I got to get something done.”
Wee Man: Yeah. Preston kept talking about it. We would be doing things and be like, “All right, I got this, I got this,” and we kind of tally each other and Preston kept coming to me, “Dude, I haven’t got nothing yet. I haven’t got nothing,” And when he did that, I’m like, “Dude, you’ve got something now, don’t worry.”
Wee Man, I thought this film had the best opening yet. It’s hard to one-up each other, they’ve been so great before. What was your reaction when you saw the Godzilla dick causing havoc and it all come together?
Wee Man: Oh, I was like, “Okay, we got it.” Cause we didn’t have an opener for a while. The Pontiusaurus was going to be just a bit. That was going to be a little bit for Chris to have that. [Producer] Spike Jonez was like, “This is the opener. This is what we’re going to do,” and it just started coming together where we’re like, “All right, we got an opener.” So Spike wrote it and it was awesome, and we got to do it on the Paramount lot. So when you film there, that’s when you know you’re going to get gold.
That’s awesome. Preston, you’re obviously a veteran to this, but the pranks never stop coming. So how paranoid are you? Once you’ve done this for so long, can you really be surprised?
Lacy: Yes. Now, like in the Silence of the Lambs skit, they got Wee Man and I good. We fell for that hook line and sinker. They know how they can distract us in ways to get us
Wee Man: But it does take all of them [laughs]. If one is just by themselves, we’re like, no, theres’s something fishy.
Wee Man, I’ve been a fan for 20+ years, and something that surprised me about this film was that the critical reception was so high. Usually, it’s 60-70% positive, still good, but this was overwhelming. Do you think people were just ready to see people get hit in the nuts after the pandemic?
Wee Man: I just think we felt like even after we filmed it, we felt like we did a good one. You can tell if you put something out that’s quality or not quality, and we felt like it was a good one and we were ready to release it. It just so happened to be a perfect time that a lot of people wanted to be out, be in the theater, be social instead of on social media. So maybe it was a little bit of luck for us that it came out then, but hey, it’s time, and it’s just like doing a bit, if you nail it on timing, your joke is good.
