Jason Biggs says he regrets ‘unacceptable’ scene left in American Pie after actress spoke out
Jason Biggs lifted the lid on Jim's love interest in American Pie and we're not talking about that one time in bandcamp.
Fans of the comedy franchise will no doubt remember Nadia, the 'hot international student', who went on to become somewhat of a 'sex symbol' in the early 2000s.
In a 2019 interview with Page Six, Shannon Elizabeth said she remained 'honored by it', but there's still 'a part of my being that doesn’t believe it'.
“To be remembered I think for anything and anything positive in that sense, I mean, I’m blessed and grateful for it. I really, really am,” the actor from Texas, who was 24 at the time of the first film, added.
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While she enjoyed working with Biggs, the actor previously addressed a certain scene that, if you watch it in hindsight, doesn't look great.
She told Page Six in 2019: "If this had come out after the #MeToo movement, there would definitely be a problem. I think that it would have gone down differently."
In the original 1999 movie, Jim invites Nadia to study in his bedroom and sets up a webcam for his friends to secretly watch her when she arrives... creepy, right?
Jim leaves the room while his crush starts to get undressed and runs over to his friend's house to watch the stream live.
When Nadia discovers a porno mag in his draw, she begins to masturbate on his bed and the horny highschooler darts back home with the hopes of getting lucky.
He then makes an advance on Nadia - and she's DTF - until Jim accidentally ejaculates twice, yes twice, before anything happens.
And to make matters worse, the stream is accidentally sent to the entire school, leaving himself and Nadia humiliated.
Acknowledging how the scene would look today, Biggs accepted that 'it wouldn't get made now and it couldn't get made now'.
He told BuzzFeed News in 2020: "It would be unacceptable what that represents, but at the time I remember reading the script and reading that part and being shocked that there was cameras on computers. That's what I took away from it originally!"
On what actually went down, Elizabeth revealed that 'it was a closed set and it was just me in this room and the boom guy above me'.
“I was like, ‘This is so weird.’ It was square room they had built in the middle of a warehouse and we made everyone that didn’t need to be there leave set,” she said.
“That’s the main thing I remember, just me and the boom guy, and trying to make jokes with the directors and make light of it because if I wasn’t nervous maybe they wouldn’t be so nervous… I just tried to make it no big deal.”
In the film, Nadia is sent back home to Slovakia, but returns later on.
She appears as Nadia in three films within the main franchise: American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), and American Reunion (2012).
Anish Vij