Jason Biggs discusses his nudity in American Pie: Reunion
Jason Biggs who made his mark with that infamous scene in the first slice of American Pie back in 1999 has spoken out about his upcoming nudity in the eagerly awaited American Pie: Reunion.
His character Jim Levenstein appears fully nude in the upcoming comedy, and Biggs explained to The Huffington Post that he felt it was important to appear in the scene himself rather than using a stand-in revealing "That was me. That was all me. It's funny, I guess I understand because there's all kinds of movie magic, but we made sure that there's a close up shot - and then we go to a wide shot. So that my face is in it with the penis.
You see a full shot so that it's clear, or more obvious, that it's my penis. I remember in early cuts I kept telling the directors, 'I have one note. You have to hold on to that shot longer so that people will know that's my penis. Otherwise, what's the point of me doing this?' The plain truth is, that's my penis."
However Biggs thinks audiences may soon become desensitised to male nudity and will stop finding it funny adding "You know, between There's Something About Mary and then Jason Segel - and, apparently, he's doing it again; he just loves flumping his [penis], apparently - and now me and Michael Fassbender last year, yeah, I don't know. Pretty soon people will become desensitised to it. But I'm glad I'm catching it on the early side, so people still have a little bit of shock.
The other thing is, even if people were like, 'Eh, penis, whatever', I think they'd still be shocked because it's Jim's penis. There's something about doing it with a character that people have sort of come to know and love over the years. And they've come so close - his penis has gotten lots of play over the years - but they've never actually seen it."
American Pie: Reunion opens on May 2 here in the UK and reunites Biggs with Seann William Scott, Alyson Hannigan, Chris Owen, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Eugene Levy, Tara Reid, Jennifer Coolidge, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Jon Cho and new additions Dania Ramirez and Katrina Bowden.
AMERICAN PIE: REUNION OPENS ON MAY 2