It’s been four years since their last movie but the Jackass boys are at it again for the third movie.

This time the stunts, pranks and private parts are going to be right in your face in Jackass 3-D, which opens Oct. 15.

Some of the stunts in the trailer for Jackass 3-D include bungeeing Steve-O into the air in a portable toilet, playing duck hunt by feathering a cast member and launching them into a lake while other cast members shoot paintballs at him, and playing tetherball with a bee hive full of 50,000 bees.

Actor Johnny Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine sat down on a conference call Friday with college media.

Q: Do you have any rituals that you do previous to performing a stunt? And can you tell us what convincing it takes, if any, before you agree to film a potentially dangerous scene?

Johnny Knoxville: Before I’m doing a big stunt, about 20 minutes before it’s on, I’ll go sit and listen to my cousin’s music or other music. When it’s on, I’ll just have someone come pat me on the shoulder, and I’ll walk right in and do it (right then) because I want to just get it out of the way.

Q: What’s the process for shooting 3-D compared to what you’re normally accustomed to?

Jeff Tremaine: The 3-D cameras were a lot bigger and bulkier, but man, once we got all the guys together, it just felt like we were shooting a normal Jackass. The process – we had to be a little more prepared. You know they took a little more prep time to get everything ready so when the guys show up, we can just shoot.

They don’t have to wait for all the – you know the extra (bodies) to get set up. But for the most part, you know it felt the same.

JK: Yes, my request to Jeff was if we shoot 3-D, I don’t want to have to worry about the cameras one time during filming because we just need to be able to do what we do. And Jeff and (Demitri) absolutely set it up where we filmed it just like a regular Jackass. We did not think about the cameras once.

Q: What do you think the 3-D format will add to the movie experience?

JK: It feels like you’re right in the middle of a stunt or prank with us. It really elevated the movie to a whole other level. Like, this bit, “The Beehive Tetherball,” we’re playing tetherball with a beehive, and it feels like 50,000 bees are swarming around the theater or around your head. It really – it really works in 3-D.

JT: And it just makes a dumb idea even dumber.

Q: What made you guys want to shoot the movie in 3-D originally?

JK: Yeah. The studio suggested it and we resisted. But after we did some tests with the cameras, it didn’t slow up the way we shot, and that was our big concern.

It would shoot it like a regular “Jackass.” That took the pressure off, and we had a ball with the cameras.

JT: And also it gave us a good title for the movie right away. You know your third movie – got to be in 3-D. That’s just the rules.

Q: Other than the 3-D, is there’s anything that takes this movie above and beyond where the other two were?

JK: We – the relationships with the guys are just – you know we give each other hell, but you can really feel how close we are, and that just seems to be there. It was in there in the other films, but it was in this film bigger than ever. And really, the – we think that naturally elevates the stunts and pranks in each film, not super consciously, but just it takes a little more to make us laugh.

JT: There’s a – there’s a competitiveness that goes on when we shoot those. There’s a real natural one-up-man’s-ship that happens with the guys, so everybody wants to get the best footage, and then once you start getting really good stuff, they realize how hard it’s going to be to get in the new movie, so everyone steps up, you know?

Q: Is it hard coming up with ideas, since you guys have pretty much done like everything already?

JT: No. We were just bursting with them. This one happened more naturally than any of the ones before.

JK: Yes, it was easier coming up ideas for this movie than any of them. We had a stockpile of ideas that we never even got to because we ran out of time.

Q: Has there been any time at any point in Jackass history when you had to turn down a stunt because it was just too crazy, too off the wall for you?

JK: You know the only time that we won’t do a stunt or I won’t do a stunt is if there’s a negative vibe going around the set and it just kind of puts a dark blanket over everything and then I’ll just say, “Let’s not do it. Let’s not do it today. We were filming this stunt up in Tahoe on this huge ski slope and someone on that ski slope died that day. It wasn’t associated with the production, but there was a death on that ski slope the day we were there. It was on the same mountain, the Donner families cannibalized themselves on. We we’re getting ready to do a big stunt and it just felt weird. We called it off but that is super, super rare.

Q: How do you like producing compared to acting? Because you’ve done some work with the Dudesons and Nitro Circus, so how do you like being a producer as compared to being an actor?

JK: I enjoy every aspect of doing TV shows. If a person I think is interesting I’ll just kind of lend my services where needed. So I’m able to jump back and forth between the things pretty easily.

Q: Can you tell a story of like, the worst injury that happened or like, the – how someone got hurt the most badly during the making of this one?

JT: We had a fighter jet that we had parked on the end of a runway and we were using the big thruster at the back. We set a little mini-trampoline up and Loomis was jumping into the jet stream holding an umbrella, and that dude only weighs probably 63 pounds soaking wet, so he just …

JK: 68 with a hard on …

JT: and he comes to the ground pretty hard and he broke his collarbone and got his hand tore up.

JK: He had to have surgery on his hand. I think he might have surgery on his shoulder.

JT: The other guys got banged up pretty bad, but no one got too seriously hurt. I mean, there’s mental scars …

Q: What is your favorite stunt that you performed in the movie?

JK: Between Jeff and I, it’s kind of a tie between the high five where we built this 5-foot-tall hand and spring loaded it so whenever someone walked into the kitchen in the morning, they just got smoked by the palm coming around the corner and the port-a-potty bungee where we took Steve-O and put him in a full port-a-potty and shot it 100 feet in the air with a bungee cord and a crane.