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

Jackass and Wildboyz star Steve-O isn’t an enormous online game participant, however he has appeared in just a few video games over time. And in response to the stunt performer and podcaster, he acquired paid fairly nicely to seem in NFL 2K5. In the meantime, his position in a Tony Hawk sport printed by Activision wasn’t almost as profitable.

Steve-O turned well-known in 2000 after showing in MTV’s vastly profitable TV collection Jackass. He would later seem within the nature-doc spin-off collection Wildboyz alongside Chris Pontius in addition to in quite a few Jackass movies, too. As of late, he’s acquired a well-liked 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 provided just a few 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 totally 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 completely locking up the NFL license for its Madden franchise to keep away from competitors. In response to Steve-O, he was paid “precisely $100,000” to seem as considered one of 5 superstar coaches you may 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 mainly only a voice and a photograph in NFL 2K5, in THUG2 he was a secret skater that you may discover and unlock, along with his personal in-game character mannequin, unique tips, and even a singular mechanical bull that he used as an alternative of a skateboard. Funnily sufficient although, whereas he was a much bigger a part of THUG2, Steve-O says Activision solely paid him $5,000 to seem within the sport.

Lastly, in 2007 Steve-O appeared as one of many principal characters in Jackass: The Sport. In response to the stunt performer, he hadn’t performed the sport till Gamespot arrange a PS2 and let him attempt it out in the course of the interview. As for a way a lot he acquired paid to seem in Jackass: The Sport, 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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