WWTW Interview: Seann William Scott - Part 2

Seann William Scott played against type in a very big way for the little comedy “The Promotion.”

And hardly anybody actually saw him stretch.

“It was heartbreaking … that movie meant a lot to me,” Scott told WWTW. “The last couple of years I’ve tried these little films, like “Southland Tales,” and they either take two years to come out or they don’t [come out at all].”

He’s not afraid to criticize “The Promotion’s” marketing push.

Both the film poster and the trailer were “terrible,” he says. Critics didn’t help matters much. One journalist told Scott she though the film was “a little bit racist,” he recalls.

“The Promotion” raised a few eyebrows by casting people of color as the thugs who intimidate supermarket shoppers.

Disappointments aside, he’s thrilled to be starring in “Role Models,” his new comedy about a pair of energy drink salesmen forced to do community service to avoid jail time.

“It’s a movie I know people will see even if I have to go back to a character that is very consistent with what I’ve done,” he says, referencing his iconic Stifler performance in the “American Pie” films.

There’s one part of Scott’s persona you won’t see in his new film.

In person, the affable actor sports elaborate tattoos on both of his hands. The new skin art gets the heave ho on most movie projects, but it does gives some of his bosses pause.

“When I meet older filmmakers, they look at my hands and say, ‘criminal,’ [under their breath],” he says with a goofy grin.

Tomorrow: Part 3 of WWTW’s interview with Seann William Scott - including the outlandish pranks on the set of “Role Models,” and how he mercilessly teased the teen known as McLovin.