Anecdotal sources suggest that the bull run at the beginning of the movie is real.
As stated at Canmag.com, Jackąss: Number Two features bulls as its overriding theme. See, there are artistic considerations in a Jackąss movie. Opening with the boys running with the bulls down a suburban street, the film features several other stunts in a bull pen. Knoxville touts the bulls’ professionalism.
“They’re very cooperative when filming,” he said. “They’ll give good footage every time. You’ve just got to stand there and they’ll do the rest.”
For the bullpen scenes, director Jeff Tremaine set up a contraption to unleash the bulls for the best possible mise en scene. “We build these giant, I call them bull guns,” said Tremaine. “Basically, you take a trailer and back it right up to the target and put the target right there and lift the gate up and it’s just going to go straight over and smoke him.”
“Target?” exclaimed Knoxville. “We have feelings!”
The opening sequence was shot on film at a studio lot in Downey, where a suburban street has stood since it was constructed for Christmas with the Kranks. “99% of the houses are just fronts, but a couple of them are interiors which we destroyed,” said Preston Lacy.
Even the Jackąss boys aren’t fearless. Wee Man recalled the team’s reluctance. “When we heard this, we were like, ‘Are you kidding me? Knoxville came up with it, and it took Bam two months to prepare for it; he was like, ‘Are you serious, are we really going to use bulls?’ And it was like, ‘Yeah, we’re going to use bulls.’”
And in true Jackąss fashion, no one escaped unscathed. “I got hit a couple of times,” said Knoxville.
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