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Johnny Knoxville talks Being Evel, a documentary about Evel Knievel.
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00:00If it weren't for this,
00:04there'd be no this.
00:11Johnny Knoxville and Matt Hoffman have a new doc about Evel Knievel,
00:14the guy who inspired everything from Jackass to the Axe Games to Kanye West.
00:19The culture of action sports have all kind of stemmed from evil spirit.
00:23Being Evil is directed by Oscar winner and Evel Knievel superfan Daniel Youngie.
00:27The guy faced death and as a kid that's all that mattered.
00:30But Evel wasn't all about just jumping over buses and imitating human rag dolls.
00:34If you pull the curtains back on anyone, you're gonna learn things and we wanted to be honest about those and telling the story.
00:40Which means talking about the affairs, the boos, the small matter of beating a biographer with a baseball bat.
00:46California judge has ordered Evel Knievel to serve out the rest of a jail sentence behind bars.
00:51Long story short...
00:52Just watch the documentary.
00:54Being Evil's in theaters now.
00:56I'm Charlie Behrens.
00:57Follow at Hollywood on Twitter and Facebook.
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