American Pie star Thomas Ian Nicholas is again within the highlight and looking out not like the character he performed within the raunchy teen franchise.
The actor performed Tara Reid’s onscreen boyfriend Kevin Myers within the movies, and was the mastermind behind the pact for the male characters to lose their virginity earlier than they completed highschool.
Nicholas, who was simply 20 when the primary movie got here out, sported a clean-cut look within the motion pictures, which ran from 1999 to 2012.
However, this week as he did the rounds to advertise his new Tubi mockumentary Underdeveloped in each LA and Australia, he rocked longer wavy hair and a full goatee.
Appearing onThe Morning Show, Nicholas, now 43, was utterly unrecognisable in a video cross from Los Angeles as he spoke to hosts Kylie Gillies and Matt Doran.
In the interview, the actor recalled when he first noticed the script for American Pie earlier than the film was launched in 1999.
“I first thought that it was a bit dirty, maybe something for the adult channels,” he admitted.
“So I sort of threw it in the trash and called my agent and said, ‘Don’t send me this’ … That is the truth.”
However, producers had been relentless and actually pushed for him to audition.
“I gave the script a whole read through and I realised that it was great, there was a lot of heart to it, so I auditioned,” he stated.
“Each film that we did, we would have more fun, I would say off-camera, especially as we started getting onto locations and things.”
Three extra instalments we made: American Pie 2 in 2001, American Pie: The Wedding in 2003 and American Reunion in 2012.
Nicholas appeared in all 4 motion pictures however didn’t reprise his position of Kevin within the 5 sequence spin-offs.
Amid his success on American Pie, the actor had roles in movies equivalent to Halloween: Resurrection and TV exhibits equivalent to Grey’s Anatomy and Medium. But American Pie stays his most well-known movie.
The franchise additionally starred Jennifer Coolidge who performed the position of Stifler’s (Seann William Scott) mum.
After an prolonged profession stoop, Coolidge skilled a profession resurgence because of her position within the HBO sequence, The White Lotus, which streams domestically on BINGE.
But regardless of her new-found fame, Nicholas says Coolidge will “always be ‘Stifler’s mum’ to me”.
Source: www.news.com.au
