Steve-O Received Paid $100k For Showing In NFL 2K5

Jackass and Wildboyz star Steve-O isn’t a giant online game participant, however he has appeared in a number of video games through the years. And based on the stunt performer and podcaster, he obtained paid fairly effectively to look in NFL 2K5. In the meantime, his position in a Tony Hawk sport printed by Activision wasn’t practically as profitable.

Steve-O grew to become well-known in 2000 after showing in MTV’s vastly profitable TV sequence Jackass. He would later seem within the nature-doc spin-off sequence Wildboyz alongside Chris Pontius in addition to in quite a few Jackass movies, too. Lately, he’s obtained a preferred podcast and YouTube channel and has been sober for over a decade. However again on the peak of Jackass-mania—the mid ‘00s—Steve-O was supplied a number of online game gigs.

In a brand new video interview with Gamespot, Steve-O confessed to lengthy pondering video games had been a waste of time. Nevertheless, he’s come round on them now, realizing that everybody has their very own methods of getting enjoyable. Within the interview, he additionally revealed that he doesn’t play many video games (although he does take pleasure in Offended Birds) although he’s appeared in three completely different video video games.

First, he appeared in NFL 2K5 in 2005, a beloved PS2-era soccer sport that was so good (and low-cost) that it scared EA into solely locking up the NFL license for its Madden franchise to keep away from competitors. In line with Steve-O, he was paid “precisely $100,000” to look as one in every of 5 movie star coaches you could possibly problem to a digital soccer match. The opposite celebs? Jamie Kennedy, David Arquette, Funkmaster Flex, and Carmen Electra.

Subsequent, Steve-O was featured in Tony Hawk’s Underground 2. Whereas he was principally only a voice and a photograph in NFL 2K5, in THUG2 he was a secret skater that you could possibly discover and unlock, together with his personal in-game character mannequin, unique methods, and even a novel mechanical bull that he used as a substitute of a skateboard. Funnily sufficient although, whereas he was an even bigger a part of THUG2, Steve-O says Activision solely paid him $5,000 to look within the sport.

Lastly, in 2007 Steve-O appeared as one of many major characters in Jackass: The Recreation. In line with the stunt performer, he hadn’t performed the sport till Gamespot arrange a PS2 and let him attempt it out through the interview. As for a way a lot he obtained paid to look in Jackass: The Recreation, Steve-O doesn’t say, however implied it was far lower than NFL 2K5.

“Jackass was actually good at not paying us that a lot,” defined Steve-O.

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