Bam Margera Says He's Glad He Wasn't A Huge Part Of 'Jackass Forever'
As any Jackass fan knows, Bam Margera is known to relapse quite a lot and has often went to social media, mostly Instagram, to post extremely explicitly angry rants about every nook and cranny of misfortune that has blown his way. Bam ended up taking an Adderall pill during the early filming process of 2022's hit theatrical film 'Jackass Forever' directed by Jackass co-creator and usual director Jeff Tremaine, which caused him to fail a mandatory drug test and of course got him kicked off of the film. Not completely however, as Bam wrote and participated in the 'Marching Band' stunt seen in the movie. That pleased a handful of fans, but a majority sum were irritated that Bam wasn't in it as a starring figure like he was once before, but alas the movie earned over eighty million dollars in theaters worldwide against a staggering ten million dollar production budget.
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On the latest episode of Steve-O's Wild Ride podcast Steve-O decided that it was a good idea to put out an episode he has kept away for at least a month that is an interview with Bam Margera. Fans on Reddit speculate that Steve-O has gone forth and released this episode so that Bam's fans will hopefully stop the 'Free Bam' hashtag and movement that had gone viral last month. And that's a very good theory seeing as Steve-O does make it apparent in the podcast with Margera that the fans should indeed stop the Free Bam movement because Bam is in a good place getting the help he needs. Well, since the episode has been recorded, Bam has been spotted numerous times partying yet again. God damn.
At four minutes and forty five seconds into the interview (screen grab above), Bam tells Steve-O, '...I'm happy to not be in it. I don't want to do that anymore; I don't want to be a part of it. I'm much happier without it.' Thanks to the fans on Reddit, I can gather enough common sense to know that Bam did in fact hate how he couldn't be in the movie. If anything is evidence at all, he explicitly raged on Instagram about the whole ordeal and even conducted a lawsuit (which was later settled out of court). Even through out the entire interview with Steve-O, Bam continuously questions and insults Knoxville, Tremaine, and Spike Jonze. At one point in time, Bam even asks 'Why does Spike Jonze have a say in anything when he came into the picture a decade later?' referring to Spike Jonze's heavier involvement during Jackass 3D and not in the early years.
While I couldn't find a photo of Bam Margera and Spike Jonze pre-Jackass 3D, the proof that Bam and Spike obviously knew each other and have met each other before 2010 is there from the start. Spike Jonze helped choreograph and direct the opening of 2002's Jackass The Movie, even seen in the 'making of' documentary included on the DVD filming with a Super-8 film camera. On the Jackass The Movie DVD commentary the cast including Bam joke and laugh at how Ehren McGhehey cried and sat in a car with Spike during filming the opening sequence. During 'Jackass 24 Hour Takeover' Bam is sitting and listening along with everyone as Tremaine tells how Jackass began, which includes talking about Spike's involvement since inception. 'Jackass Backyard BBQ' Spike Jonze was there and was just about seen talking to everybody, and even wrestled Andrew W.K. But, I'm not sure if Bam is joking around or if he genuinely doesn't remember Spike producing anything. Either way, terrible memory game and a good façade of how he didn't even want to be in it to start with... lie...
- Rhett Rhodes
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