Seann William Scott acquired his large break starring within the 1999 teen intercourse comedy American Pie as Steve Stifler.
However, it seems the now-46-year-old was paid a really small sum for the flick that launched his profession.
Scott just lately revealed on the Rick Eisen Show that he solely earned $8000 for the whole film, which made $235 million on the field workplace and has develop into a cult basic over the many years, the New York Post reveals.
Even after that tiny determine in 1999 is adjusted for inflation, is it nonetheless approach lower than you’d count on a Hollywood actor to earn from such a giant function in a wildly profitable movie.
On the Rick Eisen Show, Scott was requested if it was true American Pie was his first large function and that he was solely paid a four-figure quantity.
“I think so, yeah, because I remember afterwards I bought a used Thunderbird for like $5000 or maybe $6000, I’m like, ‘Oh yeah, baby’,” he mentioned.
“I don’t know what happened to the other $2000 because I ended up having to work at the LA Zoo as a churro guy, so maybe it was even less than $8000,” he defined.
Scott has additionally starred in a number of motion pictures within the American Pie franchise, together with the 2001 sequel in addition to American Wedding in 2003 and American Reunion in 2012.
He and co-star Jason Biggs have been allegedly paid $5 million every for his or her performances and just lately reunited for a DoorDash business in character.
In a May interview with the Daily Blast Live, Scott joked about what his character can be doing in immediately’s day and age.
“I think Stifler would be a stripper. He’d be working at a pretty crappy strip club,” he quipped.
“His stage name would be ‘Inferno’, dressed up as a fireman. Problem is his body is a little soft. He let himself go a little bit, but he’s still trying out his sexy moves,” the Dude, Where’s My Car actor added.
Scott even dished on the time in a separate interview that concepts have been floating round for American Pie 5.
He advised Comicbook.com that the story the solid and crew have floated for the fifth sequel is so ingenious that it might work on this “tough” comedic Hollywood panorama.
He famous: “I don’t know, I just love the character so much. We have to have a great idea, and especially these days, it has to be awesome.”
“You know, comedy is tough, and they have always been tough, but you know, comedies have really changed. But I think, honestly, we have been talking about an idea. I had one and I still have one that we’ve literally just recently started talking about,” Scott mentioned.
This article initially appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission
Source: www.news.com.au
