Bam Margera may not be interested in another Jackass reunion, but that doesn’t mean he’s writing off the franchise altogether.
The longtime skater and television personality says he still plans to watch Jackass: Best and Last, the latest entry in the long-running stunt series, even as he insists there’s no chance he’ll reunite with the group that helped make him a household name.
Speaking with Rolling Stone, Margera said he doesn’t hold any resentment toward the Jackass cast as a whole, despite the highly publicized fallout that led to his departure from the franchise several years ago.
“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 told the outlet. “I don’t have any bad blood with the cast of Jackass. It’s just the decisions that Johnny Knoxville and [Jackass director] Jeff Tremaine decided to make. I never want to see them ever again in my life. Enough is enough.”
Margera’s exit from the franchise stemmed from the production of 2022’s Jackass Forever, when he was removed from the film after disputes over the wellness conditions attached to his participation. He later filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, alleging the company pressured him into signing his contract while he was in a rehabilitation facility before requiring him to undergo multiple daily drug tests.
The lawsuit also claimed that medications prescribed by Paramount’s medical team “left him physically and mentally drained, depressed, and a shell of his former self.”
Although Margera eventually asked the court to dismiss the case, it has never been publicly confirmed whether he and Paramount reached a settlement. Along with the studio, the suit named Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, MTV, Spike Jonze, Dickhouse Entertainment, Gorilla Flicks, and several other parties.
Now sober, Margera says his priorities look very different than they did during the height of his reality TV fame. He credited both his wife, Dannie Marie, and his son, Phoenix the Wolf — whom he shares with ex Nicole Boyd — for motivating him to make lasting changes.
“Everybody’s like, because you [tormented] your dad, Phoenix is gonna do that to you, and I’m totally cool with that,” he said, reflecting on the antics that defined Viva La Bam. “Phoenix made me fight for myself to save my own life because I need to be here for him.”
These days, Margera says nearly all of his energy goes into skateboarding, which he describes as an essential part of his recovery.
“Skateboarding is my therapy, my sanity, my medication,” he said, adding that he’s “learning and inventing new tricks at the age of 46. All I want to do now is skateboard.”
Margera appeared throughout Jackass‘ original MTV run and remained one of the franchise’s most recognizable faces across multiple feature films and television specials. While he was ultimately removed from Jackass Forever, he has previously said that archival footage of him is included in Jackass: Best and Last, giving longtime fans one more chance to see him as part of the series’ final chapter.
