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It is often said that jazz is the only true American art form. On the precipice of a fourth film, the bodies and faces on the posters having visibly entered middle age, it’s hard not to wonder: What has it been like to live as one of the guys from “Jackass”? Acuña knows best.
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At 22 years, the boyish franchise is now older than some of its stars were for their TV debut. He told me he has been recognized in public at least once every day, for decades. He has a form of dwarfism known as achondroplasia his distinct physical appearance - the “Jackass” team agrees he is by far the most recognized of any of them, even more than Johnny Knoxville - makes him the only member whose mere presence in the world in his off-hours instantly identifies him. But Acuña is the cast member for whom “Jackass” fame has been rendered most inescapable. He has not amassed (or squandered) the greatest fortune. Unlike some of the other “Jackass” players, Acuña has rarely made headlines over the past 20 years. A fourth movie, “Jackass Forever,” will be released in February, after 11 months of pandemic-related delays. The first three “Jackass” movies have earned a reported lifetime gross of more than $300 million. Beginning in 2002, it has also been, sporadically, a theatrical film.
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The work is compiled under the franchise name “Jackass.” For three seasons, from 2000 to 2002, it was a television series that aired on MTV. This whole thing - skateboarding et cetera - absorbs a great deal of Acuña’s time but is (mostly) not really his job, and certainly not his primary source of income, though it is true that Acuña’s passion for skateboarding et cetera is directly responsible for the comfortable lifestyle he now leads, a lifestyle that affords him the ability to at “any moment” receive a phone call from a friend saying, “ ‘Hey, let’s go to Italy’” and immediately, or at the latest tomorrow, go, something he says he has done multiple times.Īnswers are predominantly variations on the theme “It would be painful.” It is the métier of Acuña to convey on video, with bugged out or scrunched up eyes, doubled-over body, temporarily discolored skin, shrieks, moans and groans, the flash-quick process by which nerve endings, in response to what the body perceives as an intolerable degree of mechanical, chemical or thermal stimulus, telegraph frantic warnings of “danger” and “pain” to the spinal cord and, thence, to the brain. Everyone is nice, or at least no one is not nice.
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To spend a few days with Acuña, who is 48, is to inhabit a parallel version of California - seemingly even more densely populated than the real California - where everyone is a professional skateboarder, or works for a skateboard company, or works for a different skateboard company, or is a skateboard photographer, or is a pioneer of skateboarding, or invented some crucial component of skateboards, or ran a skateboarding magazine, or doesn’t do any of that but can still kickflip.Īll the people in the parallel California know one another, as well as 10 billion other people whose skateboarding-related activities (past, present, future) they spend a not-insignificant amount of time catching one another up on. Thick light-compression socks occupy a larger share of Acuña’s attention and interest than that of the average American adult for the same reason that skull stickers do: He is a skateboarder. Acuña was giving him some free merchandise from his sock line. I found him in the middle of a friendly conversation with a man who appeared to be living in a car.
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The first time I was late to being early, he was going to teach me how to skateboard. The pattern of our days was established at our first meeting: I would contrive to arrive before him to whatever sunrise activity Acuña, better known as Wee Man, had planned for us, and he would already be there, shouting a greeting in his psyched-up Southern California drawl. Some of the earliest hours of my life have been spent with Jason Acuña.
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