For Seann William Scott, it’s finally safe to play the Stifler card again.
Scott recalls watching Vince Vaughn mugging it up in “Wedding Crashers” and thinking, “it’s so cool to see him go back to that ‘Swingers’ character,” he told WWTW.
“It’s good to cater toward that audience that started your career,” says Scott, who crashed Hollywood’s gates with a star-making turn in “American Pie” as the wild and crazy Stifler.
Scott channels his Stifler mojo once more for “Role Models,” a new R-rated comedy coming out Nov. 7 pairing him with Paul Rudd. The two play energy drink salesmen who get in trouble with the law and must do community service with a Big Brothers-style mentoring service or face jail time.
They start wishing they opted for prison when they meet their “little brothers” — played by “Superbad’s” Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Bobb’e J. Thompson.
Rudd’s character is the quiet, slow burning type, while Scott lets loose with his signature comic fury.
Scott, a Minnesota native as affable in person as one would expect, can’t believe he’s gone from stocking shelves at Home Depot to a major film career. And if that means playing by Hollywood’s rules, so be it.
“Studios have a sense of what works well for me right now,” he says - Stifler-like cads who talk fast and don’t care who they offend. “Maybe I’m a little typecast, but I don’t care.”
Besides, Scott has been working steadily since 1999’s “American Pie,” showing better range than many would have predicted. He played the wisecracking sidekick in “The Rundown,” a good ol’ boy in “The Dukes of Hazzard” and a pent-up executive in this year’s cruelly underrated “The Promotion.”
The latter is the one movie he read all the reviews on, and it’s also one whose failure cut him the deepest.
Tomorrow: Scott spills on “The Promotion” … and what’s with those tattoos on his hands?
(Photo: Seann William Scott camps out with a new friend in the raucous comedy “Role Models.”)
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