Johnny Knoxville:
“I can’t prank the public as myself anymore, ‘cause I get recognized. But the old man (the “bad grandpa” Irving) frees me up to do pranks again. There’s a lot of my father in the old man, a lot of the mannerisms, but basically he’s a more perverted version of myself.”
“We had a loose idea when we first started the movie but everything wasn’t stitch together… we continued working the story through the entire filming. We shoot for ten months. It was like an experimental seventies film type of shoot. No movie shoots off and on for ten months, only us.”
"I was in makeup three hours a day."
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Director Jeff Tremaine on finding Jackson Nicoll:
“Johnny Knoxville and Jackson did a movie together called Fun Size and when Knoxville came back from shooting it, he came into my office and said we had to write something for this kid. We were thinking Jackass at that time and then this idea came up. He was already pictured to be the grandson but we did have to audition him because we knew he would be great in all the acting scenes but we didn’t know if he could do the pranks.”
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Knoxville:
“If Irving (the bad grandpa) was doing something naughty, he (Jackson Nicoll) wouldn’t be on the set that day.”
“People usually won’t hit an old man.”
“Having done Bad Grandpa, a prank movie with a narrative, we feel like we can do more of that. It’s exciting that there’s a whole new area that we can explore.”
“I would love to do a movie with Cher but that was mentioned a few years ago and nothing never came together.”
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Knoxville:
“We had some really great footage that we just couldn’t include because it didn’t work with the story. A lot of things felt out, a lot of characters. Spike Jonze played an old lady named Gloria. We had really funny stuff with Gloria but we couldn’t use it. Same with Catherine Keener, she played my wife and we couldn’t use that. There’s so much on the DVD and we are also doing a whole separate release next year with all the bits and how we made the movie, but I’m not sure how are we going to call it. We usually do Jackass 2.5 or Jackass 3.5, so it might be Bad Grandpa.5.”
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