Angry Bam Margera Refuses Return to ‘Jackass’: ‘Couldn’t Offer Me Enough Money’
Skateboarder Bam Margera rose to TV fame via the Jackass franchise, risking life and limb for the sake of sadistic TV laughs. But there’s no way he’d ever revisit those glory days, either on film or via reboot, since he has no intention of mending his rift with Johnny Knoxville and the gang, he recently told CinemaBlend.
“They have like new dudes, and what they did to me, making me go to treatment and paying for it, and then not putting me in a movie,” he explained. “You know, I had to go to court over it, and I just… You couldn’t offer me enough money to want to do another Jackass with them. The damage has been done.”
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Margera settled a lawsuit against a number of key Jackass players in 2022, alleging wrongful termination and claiming he was forced to sign an agreement he called psychological torture. The terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed.
Margera posted an Instagram Reel this spring reiterating his refusal to participate in Jackass 5 or similar projects. “Have you seen (Jackass) 4? Uh, hell no,” he said. “I think the highlight of the last one was Knoxville getting shot out of a cannon. Whoopee. I just saw that at the Dallas flea market last Friday, and they do it every Friday.”
While Jackass Forever, the fourth installment in the franchise, wasn’t nominated for any Oscars in 2022, it did score at the box office, raking in more than $80 million worldwide. A fifth movie would likely draw as well. But Margera wants no part of a sequel that he’d call either Jackflop 5 or Fat Guys Playing With Each Other’s Asses.
In either case, “Do I want to get involved? No!”
Margera, who turns up as the secret skater in Activision’s recent remake of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4, also has no interest in rebooting his own show, Viva La Bam, despite the success of other MTV revivals like Jersey Shore: Family Vacation. “I just feel like that type of show has completely run its course,” he told CinemaBlend. “Living with my parents, and painting the whole kitchen blue, and having my mom freak out — to end something like that.”
How do you recreate that chaos after “your life moves on, you get your own house, with your own wife and you have a kid,” Margera wondered. A Viva la Bam reboot would require the reality star to “move back in with my parents and re-mess with ‘em after giving them a 15-year break. It would just be weird.”
