Johnny Knoxville reveals the one Jackass stunt he really regrets

THEY were known for their outlandish and cringe-inducing public stunts, but now Jackass star Johnny Knoxville admits there was one time they went too far.

JOHNNY Knoxville wasn’t on board with all of the Jackass pranks.

Stuntman Knoxville, 47, told Vulture that while he and the Jackass crew loved “the toy car with Ryan [Dunn]” and “the prank on Ehren [McGhehey] at the end of Jackass Number Two where he pretends to be a terrorist,” he was adamantly against putting a fishhook through Steve-O’s cheek to go trawling for sharks.

“Steve-O was screaming in that Port-a-Potty with his mouth wide open,” he said of the stunt. “And I remember talking to [director] Jeff [Tremaine] when he told me the idea of the fishhook and casting Steve-O out to sea. I wasn’t fond of that idea. I knew it was a great opening to a scene, but how do you end it?”

Some light alligator nipple play in Jackass: The Movie.

He noted that he didn’t see any comedic value in the prank.

“I thought that the only way that footage was usable is if it ended with Steve-O getting bit by a shark,” Knoxville said. “But why would we do that? I didn’t think it was funny. I don’t want him missing a leg. But we still shot it and Steve-O kicked the shark in the nose before it bit him. Now that’s funny. Look, we didn’t know where the line was. It was constantly getting redrawn.”

Knoxville in a typical Jackass scene.

McGhehey recently told Page Six that he was against doing certain stunts as well.

“There were some things that I obviously didn’t want to do — like I don’t know any human being that would want to be chased by bulls or be blindfolded — that sucks — or drink [their] own pee,” he said.

Still, Knoxville has flexed his stunt muscles again in his new project, Action Point. Meanwhile, Steve-O celebrated his 10th year of sobriety in March.

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.