Steve-O Has Doctor Paralyze Him For Jackass 4

If entertainer and stunt performer Steve-O's recent interviews and online content are anything to gauge Jackass 4 by, the upcoming newest entry in the franchise sounds like it truly will outdo its predecessors. In a recent video uploaded to his personal YouTube account, Steve-O revealed that, for the film, he successfully convinced a doctor to paralyze him from the waist down for a stunt. And that's just for starters.

"Dude, everything that's about to happen right now is all bad, I love it." says Steve-O in the clip. Later, he explains that he "might have actually talked a doctor into dressing up as a clown so that he could put a four-inch needle into my spine and inject me with a drug that would paralyze me from the waist down while I was sprinting and before all kinds of terrible s*** happened to me."

If just reading about these sorts of antics is too much for you--or you scoff at even considering them antics--it likely goes without saying you don't need to watch the above video, which shows a few moments of the aforementioned injection and focuses on how Steve-O prepared for the movie. And if you think this sounds bad, bear in mind that co-star Johnny Knoxville suffered a brain hemorrhage as a result of a stunt he filmed for Jackass 4.

Jackass 4 is due out in theaters on October 22, 2021. It's the first Jackass film since 2010's Jackass 3D, not counting the 2013 Bad Grandpa spinoff.