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Knoxville and his merry band of idiots — Steve-O, Chris Pontius, the late Ryan Dunn, Bam Margera, Dave England, Danger Ehren, Wee-Man, and the biggie-sized Preston Lacy — parlayed their hair-brained MTV series, which ran from 2000 to 2002, into three feature films and a spinoff (Jackass the Movie in 2002, Jackass Number Two in 2006, Jackass 3-D in 2010 and Bad Grandpa in 2013), each more popular than its predecessor.

As the frontman of the group, Knoxville did everything from tasering himself to pulling on a bullet-proof vest and shooting himself in the chest.

But on Action Point— which is loosely inspired by the now-defunct Action Park in New Jersey — he says he sustained more injuries than he ever did on Jackass.

“I had four concussions, two blow-out fractures of my left eye caused by a broken orbital lamina in my face … whiplash, stitches, and I lost two and half teeth,” he says.

“On Jackass, there were seven other guys. If someone got hurt, we just give a stunt to someone else. But with this, it was — if something breaks, you’re still doing it.”

Back on the mend, Knoxville, who co-wrote and co-produced the comedy, rang up to talk about his return to stunts, retirement and whether we will ever see another Jackass.

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen you doing the types of crazy stunts you undertake in Action Point. What made you want to get back into that?

There’s action, there’s comedy and there are no wires or green screen or pads or any of that. It’s all real. I was inspired by a documentary on the original Action Park, which is the most dangerous theme park ever. Period. We thought that was a wonderful world and would make a great movie where I could do my own stunts for real. No cutting on the action and everything’s wide angle so everyone knows that it’s really happening.