Topics: Film and TV, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, MTV, Steve-O
There's apparently one good reason Steve-O believes a female version of Jackass would 'never work.'
It's been more than 25 years since MTV blessed us with the cult hit we still know and love as Jackass, starring Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Wee Man, Preston and Steve-O, and many more.
The show's premise was centered around painful and embarrassing stunt performances and pranks performed on each other, with some memorable moments including 'Toro Totter,' where the cast attempted (and failed) to doge a charging bull while sitting on a seesaw, to 'Poo Cocktail Supreme,' where Steve-O took a ride in a port-a-loo as it launched through the air.
In another particularly hilarious episode, Margera pranked his own parents (as he often did, earning himself his own spin-off show Viva La Bam for such stunts) by setting off fireworks while his dad slept.
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Indeed, the often dangerous if not downright dirty pranks, stunts, and toilet humor are arguably what define Jackass as a little more than your standard reality TV show.
In the eyes of Steve-O, real name Stephen Gilchrist Glover, the show's success comes down to its all-male cast and shunned the idea of a female version of the show.
Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience, the 51-year-old explained: "Sometimes people want to make like a female version of Jackass where girls do like terrible s*** and hurt themselves on purpose and that's just never going to work.
"It boils down to a hormonal thing because like men with testosterone, the idea is that you know, we're the providers and we're supposed to be like macho and prove that we're tough and so it becomes funny to see a guy fail and get hurt, like that's funny," he continued. "But with women, they're maternal, they're nurturers, so it's not cool to see them get hurt."
His insight comes as many die-hard fans might not remember Jackass did in fact have a female cast member in the original line-up.
Stephanie Hodge actually played a huge part in the first few seasons as the show's first stunt woman, after striking up a friendship with Knoxville and other cast members far before Jackass was even born.
So when she was asked to take part, Hodge agreed without thinking much of it.
"I'll get paid a couple of hundred bucks and nobody will see it," she initially thought.
However, how wrong she was, as her first stunt, taking part in a boiled egg eating contest until puking, made TV history and catapulted her to fame.
Tragically, she was also the first case member to have gained a serious injury that forced her out of the show.
While performing a stunt atop a snow-covered mountain in Portland, Oregon, the stunt saw the cast hurtle down while riding everyday objects, like a portable toilet and a step ladder.
Hodge and Dave England were riding together on an air mattress, complete with bedding.
“They were like, 'It would be so much funnier if it was a girl instead of a guy' and I said 'OK, I'll do it', not really realizing what that meant," she confessed.
It went horribly wrong when after descending the mountain, the pair hit a snowbank and were catapulted into the air. When she landed, Hodge broke her back and snapped her pelvis, understandably marking the end of her stunt career.
However. after recovering, she did make a re-appearance in the show, posing as a ring girl in the 2002 Jackass movie.
