By Fred Topel | Image property of Paramount Pictures, MTV Films.
Jackass: Number Two
How do you make Wee Man disappear? Covering him
with a 300 pound woman works. That’s a magic trick hosted by John
Waters in Jackass: Number
Two. “He’s got some sub-cultures that are going
on,” said director Jeff Tremaine. “One’s called crushers
and one’s called feeders.”
Jackass: Number Two: Wee Man Stunts
Waters may say anything goes, but even the Jackass team has standards. “We
had John over to do the magic trick,” Tremaine continued. “We
had this one woman over and we’re looking at her and she’s not
that big. Then we find out she’s pregnant. ‘Pregnant? What are
we going to do’? So we sent her home. Then we’re like ‘oh
my God’ but her buddy knew a really big girl. Then we couldn’t
get her until seven o’clock at night. This was like twelve noon so
we kept John Waters for that long. He was like ‘I’ll come out.’”
To kill time, they shot an alternate version of the trick which appears
in the end credit outtakes. The whole time, Wee Man knew what was coming.
That kind of surprise could be dangerous. “Because I’m mean-spirited,
and if it was something like that, I would have used words that I wouldn’t
have wanted to use afterwards,” he said.
Turns out, the crew does get advanced warning when there’s a potential
fatty crush coming. “Like the tear gas one, they tell you the ones
where you can’t breathe,” said Preston Lacy. “When it’s
going to involve no oxygen, [they say], ‘In the future, you’re
not going to be breathing for a couple minutes.’”
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