“Jackass: Best and Last,” was released in theaters on June 26 marking a close to the popular franchise after several successful movie installments and spinoffs which were spawned by the legendary MTV show.
One of the show’s long-running stars, Bam Margera, previously had a very public battle with addiction that ultimately contributed to his firing from 2022’s “Jackass Forever.” Margera later filed a wrongful termination lawsuit (which he eventually dropped) and while he has no irks with the “Jackass” cast, he still harbors ill will for its creators Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine.
“I’ll definitely check out the movie, and I hope it’s good, but as far as a reunion, it’s not going to happen, not in 10 million years,” Margera recently told Rolling Stone. “I don’t have any bad blood with the cast of Jackass. It’s just the decisions that Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine decided to make. I never want to see them ever again in my life. Enough is enough.”
Margera said that he was offered a hefty sum for his involvement in the franchise before his dismissal over allegedly taking unprescribed Adderall. Prior to being fired, in an effort to appease the show’s producers, Margera signed a wellness agreement which included three daily breathalyzer tests, twice weekly urine tests and regular hair screenings. Margera told Rolling Stone, “They put me up at some shady hotel with a guy out front to make sure I didn’t leave to go get alcohol. I wound up on set once, and they’re just like, ‘P*ss into this cup.’”
He continued: “To tell somebody that after doing all that, thinking that you’re going to get $5 million, then say you’re not in the movie, and you’re not getting $5 million — I mean, I watched Dateline, and people kill other people for a whole lot less. I was very f*cking angry.”
Margera appears in the new film but only in archival footage, which he approved, as he declined to come back to shoot new material.
