Why does johnny knoxville look so sick

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And I have bad allergies. There were four in total. Oh, well. Too late. He just rolled on his back, laughed, got up and went off to the hospital. In perhaps the most difficult stunt of the movie, Knoxville was to plummet to the ground while trying to jump to another tree, his fall blunted by a shed. The stunt coordinator wanted to soften the blow by having Knoxville land on a sharply angled roof, but the star aimed to make a bigger splat.

Hollywood began to throw money at films— Old School , Step Brothers , The Hangover —about stunted, self-thwarting men. Platforms like YouTube, Vine, and TikTok, which would build billion-dollar businesses atop clips of people doing stupid things, were years away. But perhaps the most interesting thing Jackass revealed was that the very nature of fame was shifting in early-aughts America.

When Kim Kardashian was barely out of high school, men like Knoxville and Steve-O and Bam Margera and Chris Pontius were proving that you could become famous by doing whatever it took to hold an audience's attention. Steve-O and Pontius got their own show, Wildboyz, a nature-inflected take on Jackass.

Margera got one too, focusing on his attempts to terrorize his suburban-Pennsylvania friends. All had come by their fame honestly—by taking as much abuse as they could stomach and hoping people liked it.

And people really, really liked it. To get it done, Knoxville says, they insured it stunt by stunt. What a ridiculous feeling. What a silly film to be number one. By , when Jackass 3D more than doubled that figure, the Jackass -ification of pop culture was more or less complete. If the money changed the guys, they didn't show it. And they all had black eyes. I of course wondered why they had black eyes, and they explained that they had to take their lot ID photos—the little card that gets you onto the production lot—and they wanted to make sure they had black eyes for their pictures.

So they punched each other in the face. For an ID! This is not part of the movie or the show. This is just three crazy people. This past spring, Knoxville celebrated his 50th birthday at his home in L. It was a low-key day, spent with his wife, Naomi, and their two children, Rocko and Arlo. Madison, his adult daughter with his first wife, lives in Austin. Naomi whipped up a playlist of their favorite songs, heavy on Willie Nelson.

They all ate out on the patio, near the pool they'd made happy use of during the pandemic summer. This is the Knoxville his friends, most of whom call him P. He surfs. He is notably attentive to the physical safety of his children. He is diligent about sending gifts. Lately, Knoxville has been spending much of his time in his office, where he's been working on finishing the movie.

The workspace features photos of his heroes, Evel Knievel and Hunter S. He met Thompson once, years back. At the time, Knoxville was fresh off the success of the first Jackass film; a few producers thought they'd turn him into the next great American movie star. It was a heady time to be Johnny Knoxville. Temptation abounded. His first marriage ended. A new relationship with an old friend straightened him out.

At first. Then it was for myself too. There were limits: He told her he wasn't interested in exploring the part of him that wanted to do stunts. It wasn't just about jeopardizing his livelihood, he explained. It's something that I did with my friends. And I was decent at it. Or when you come to. Other members of the cast had more trouble adjusting to fame.

Steve-O very publicly battled drug addiction. In recent years worrying signs have come from Bam Margera, who has entered and exited rehab a number of times. Cast member Ryan Dunn died in in a drunk-driving accident. Watching his friends struggle has been immensely challenging for Knoxville. And it was tough when Steve-O was going off the rails. But he has completely, completely turned his life around and is doing just—I mean, he's doing terrific. I didn't feel the need or the desire. It's a real emotional thing.

Cementing Knoxville's feeling that another Jackass movie would be a bad idea was the fact that co-star Steve-O was also hesitant. And not just the last one, but declared as the last one.