Dukes of Hazzard cameo for Foyt IV.

As the Hollywood remake of classic TV series 'The Dukes of Hazzard' prepares to hit the big screens, racing fans should keep an eye out for one AJ Foyt....the fourth!

Foyt, the grandson of the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, filmed two scenes, both set in a fictional Hazzard County bar, with the film's stars Johnny Knoxville (Luke Duke), Seann William Scott (Bo Duke) and pop starlet Jessica Simpson (Daisy Duke) last autumn..

Set in present day, the story follows the adventures of cousins Bo and Luke Duke, who with the help of their eye-catching cousin Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson), try to save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds). Along the way, the Dukes stay one step ahead of Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane (M.C. Gainey) in the General Lee, their 1969 orange Dodge Charger.

"The first (scene) I was in was a bar scene where Johnny Knoxville threw me up against a wall," said Foyt, who turned 21 in May. "He was about to punch me and then Seann runs up and says, 'Don't hit him; that's A.J. Foyt.' Knoxville looks at me and says, 'Really?' And I say, 'The fourth.' And I actually get to punch him. Then I get brushed out of the scene at some point."

Apparently, name recognition helps in more situations than getting a better table at a restaurant.

"The next scene I'm at the bar with a beer in my hand and a fight is going on," said Foyt, who isn't old enough to have watched the TV series starring Catherine Bach, Tom Wopat and John Schneider that was a surprise Friday night hit on CBS in the early 1980's.

"A cop is trying to break up the fight and he gets thrown into me and the beer goes all over me. As he's trying to walk away from me, I try to come up from behind and hit him over the head with a beer mug. When I go to do that, Jessica Simpson hits me over the back with a pool stick and continues to hit me as I go to the ground.

"It was kind of like a fake pool stick, so it didn't hurt really bad. We had to go through the scene about four times, so she was really apologetic. The last time she kept hitting me and hitting me after the stick was broken, and she left some welts on my back. It really was pretty funny. She kept saying she was sorry."

Foyt didn't have to audition for the cameo role, and heard about scenes being added while on a hunting expedition.

"I was at the (family) hunt ranch; it was deer season at the time," he said. "I got a call asking if I wanted to do it, and I said, 'Yeah' right away. So I went from there to San Antonio and flew to Houston and then to Baton Rouge. It kind of came up at the last minute."

Foyt didn't know what to expect when he arrived on the set. With a bare bones script and even less acting experience, he just ran with the limited direction.

"When I got there, we went through a couple of things without filming to make sure I knew basically what to do," he said. "Then we started filming and it took two or three times. It wasn't really hard and they said I did a good job.

"It seemed like a lot of people standing around doing nothing. It was a bunch of campers for makeup, bunch of people hanging around eating barbeque. There were people from the town who were chosen just to be in the background, which was a really cool thing for the town.

"I had a lot of fun with Johnny Knoxville, Seann and Jessica. I got to hang out with them for a night. She's a really cool girl, and I had a lot of fun with those three people. It was one very long day."

Foyt said he'll try not to critique his scenes when he joins others in the theatre.

"I think it will be a good movie looking at the previews," he said.