Bam Margera says he plans to see Jackass: Best and Last in theaters, but any reunion with the franchise's core team is completely off the table.
The pro skater and former Jackass cast member told Rolling Stone that his feelings toward the cast remain friendly, but his relationship with two key figures is finished. "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 Rolling Stone. "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 was dismissed from Jackass Forever in 2022. He subsequently filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, alleging that the studio coerced him into signing a contract while he was in a rehabilitation facility. The lawsuit also alleged that Paramount required him to complete multiple daily drug tests and take a cocktail of drugs prescribed by Paramount's medical team "that left him physically and mentally drained, depressed, and a shell of his former self." He later asked a judge to dismiss the suit. Whether a settlement was reached between Margera and Paramount remains unclear. In addition to Knoxville, the lawsuit named MTV, Jeffrey Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Dickhouse Entertainment, and Gorilla Flicks, among others.
Margera appeared on Jackass during its initial MTV run from 2000 to 2001 and continued as a central figure through multiple films and TV specials that followed. He made a brief appearance in Jackass Forever. Archival footage of Margera is included in Jackass: Best and Last, now in theaters.
Margera credited his wife, Dannie Marie, and his son, Phoenix Wolf, with helping him get sober. Phoenix's mother is Margera's ex, Nicole Boyd.
"Everybody's like, because you [tormented] your dad, Phoenix is gonna do that to you, and I'm totally cool with that," he said, referring to his antics on Viva La Bam, which aired from 2003 to 2005. "Phoenix made me fight for myself to save my own life because I need to be here for him."
Now sober, Margera has returned to the sport that made him famous before Jackass. "Skateboarding is my therapy, my sanity, my medication," he said, adding that he is "learning and inventing new tricks at the age of 46. All I want to do now is skateboard."