Where Is The Cast Of Jackass Now?
By Ava Barnes
If Jackass could be said to have had a star, Johnny Knoxville was it. The charismatic glue that held the group together, his gleeful joy at getting extremely daring (or extremely funny) footage at any cost set the tone for the show, as well as the movies that followed. Since the series is so tied into his identity as a performer, you wouldn't be surprised to learn that Knoxville has spent his years post-Jackass 3D keeping the franchise flame alive.
In 2013, Knoxville starred in Bad Grandpa, a Jackass spinoff that ties a number of real skits and stunts involving his old-man-makeup Irving Zisman character together inside a loose road trip narrative. He followed that feature with the 2018 movie Action Point, which combined Jackass-style stunts with a story about an out-of-control, deeply unsafe theme park.
Outside of these Jackass legacy projects, Knoxville has kept up his more conventional career as a comic actor in movies like The Last Stand with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also produced the 2015 documentary Being Evel, about the life of stuntman Evel Knievel, a personal idol.
Knoxville's enduring commitment to destroying his body for entertainment's sake is... well, it's working. During an interview with Vanity Fair, he revealed that Action Point injured his aging body "more than any film I've ever done." He received a concussion, a broken hand, an injured meniscus, lost multiple teeth, and popped his eye out of its socket. Craziest thing? After all that, he still looks pretty much fine.
