The Stifmeister! Seann William Scott completely talked to Us Weekly about his iconic American Pie personality, Steve Stifler, and published whether he’d ever reprise the role.
“I simply love that personality and everybody involved [with the film],” the Final Destination actor, 46, shared with Us on Wednesday, May 24, whilst selling his upcoming film The Wrath of Becky, which hits theaters on Friday, May 26. “I feel that may be truly amusing to look that character once more, nevertheless it’d have to be, like, a great script.”
Although Scott famous that he didn’t know whether his go back to the American Pie franchise “would ever occur,” he spoke of his experience taking part in Stifler fondly. “That’s the most fun character I think,” he mentioned. “Cause he is any such weirdo. He’s the sort of weirdo that, like, he can kind of escape with the rest. But deep down, he just wants to be cherished.”
The Dude, Where’s My Car? superstar isn’t the only American Pie solid member who has hinted at short of to select up the place they left off. Jason Biggs — who performed awkward protagonist Jim Levenstein — completely advised Us in February 2020 that he hadn’t “entirely given up hope” of doing more films.
“I feel there is a world through which — if all of the issues fall into place that need to fall into place — there’s an international by which we can make any other one,” the Orange Is the New Black alum, 45, mentioned at the time.
Both Scott and Biggs appeared in all 4 of the original movies, remaining appearing in 2012’s American Reunion. The franchise has additionally produced 5 spinoff films up to now, none of which the 2 OG actors participated in.
Scott may have risen to prominence playing the loudmouthed jock within the comedy movies, but the Minnesota local feels simply as home on this planet of drama, if not more so. In The Wrath of Becky — a sequel to the 2020 movie Becky — he performs a neo-Nazi named Darryl. Along with his fascist organization The Noble Men, Darryl goes head-to-head with the 16-year-old titular character (Lulu Wilson) after breaking into her house and kidnapping her canine.
“I in point of fact favored playing a extra dramatic, roughly severe personality,” Scott told Us of his enjoy at the film. “I don’t know what this says about me, that it used to be more uncomplicated for me to faucet into this type of character than many of the comedies, but I think comedies are tougher for me, simply because [you] both are gonna make it humorous or now not, you understand?”
Despite enjoying the darker material, the Lethal Weapon alum famous that he doesn’t “relate to the rest” about his villainous persona. “That would make me roughly a psycho. … I relate to his beard. Because on occasion I have a beard that’s similar and I love his beard,” he joked. “But that might be it.”
Not only did Scott’s portrayal of Darryl be offering him the “alternative to do something pretty different than what I’ve executed all the way through most of my career,” however the film marks “one of the rare instances” he’s executed press for a film without feeling “like a fraud.” He advised Us: “Cause there’s instances where you’re like, ‘Go see the movie. It’s great.’ And inside, you’re like, ‘Ah, [I’m] mendacity to them.'”
The Goon actor — who has been married to inside designer Olivia Korenberg since 2019 — added that he thinks viewers will benefit from the movie even supposing they didn’t see the OG Becky.
“I saw it in a theater a pair days in the past with my sweetheart's father who’s 75, who’s simply awesome. He was giggling. He was, like, stunned. He was once freaking out. He used to be roughly scared. And this isn’t actually his type of movie,” Scott explained. “It’s humorous, it’s darkish. There’s a bit of little bit of wish success.”
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The Wrath of Becky hits theaters on Friday, May 26.
With reporting via Leanne Stanton
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