Jackass Forever with Jeff Tremaine and Spike Jonze (Ep. 350)
The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast
Directors Guild of America
4.6 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The most expensive idea almost never makes the movie. |
| 0:02.2 | The most expensive idea is usually just this way to make everybody bored while they're waiting for it to get set up. |
| 0:07.6 | And when they're bored, they do something hilarious. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello, and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America. |
| 0:41.5 | In today's episode, the original Jackass crew returned after 11 years to push the envelope with another round of hilarious and absurd displays of comedy in director Jeff Tremaine's comedic documentary, Jackass Forever. |
| 0:50.7 | In addition to Jackass Forever, Mr. Tremaine's directorial credits include the feature films, The Dirt, Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa, |
| 0:57.4 | Jackass 3D, the series Jackass 3.5, and episodes of ESPN 30 for 30. |
| 1:03.3 | Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Mr. Tremaine shares insight into the making of Jackass Forever with director Spike Jones. Listen on for their |
| 1:08.9 | spoiler-filled conversation. |
| 1:18.4 | Right. Thank you all for coming tonight. This is our first movie that we've screened at the DJ and I don't know why it took so long. It's a... I wasn't in the DJ on the first one. |
| 1:23.6 | Oh yeah, that's fair. But still, there's number two. There's two, three, bad grandpa. Yeah. Jeff, this, Jeff, is this your six movie you directed? Is that right? I was trying to count. |
| 1:33.4 | Three jackass movies, bad grandpa. In the dirt, yeah. |
| 1:36.9 | No, four back ass movies, bad grandpa in the dirt, six. |
| 1:40.1 | Yeah. So Jeff and I have actually known each other since I was in the eighth grade. |
| 1:45.4 | We went to the same. |
| 1:47.4 | I worked at this BMX shop and he'd work in the summer when there were shows. |
| 1:51.4 | And we met and he was like the local BMX legend with a twer. |
| 1:57.8 | And so anyways, yeah, we've known each other forever and worked on magazines together |
| 2:04.1 | and created Jackass with John. Yeah, Spike, I graduated and we went to high school together |
| 2:09.9 | for my senior year, your sophomore year. And Jeff was the only one with the car. And I went |
| 2:15.1 | off to college and then Spike moved straight out of high school to |
| 2:19.3 | California. |
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