EDDIE: I think women who can do comedy are a rarity. I mean, not a rarity, but it’s just so nice to find it and see it on such a unique level. Hollywood doesn’t give women enough opportunities to be as funny as she does. She took one opportunity, or the opportunities that she’s had, and has ridden with it. It’s just great to see a funny woman.
Why do audiences connect with these characters?
SEANN: It is such a phenomenon because the characters, you can identify with them. The first one was just kind of out of nowhere and it had a lot of heart. The guys are going through an awkward experience in high school, which kids can identify with. The girls have the power and they’re dealing with losing their virginity and stuff. It was funny. It was at a time when the gross-out comedies were doing really well, but then they just continued to follow the characters. I always ask that, too, when kids come up to me and say they like the movie so much. I’m like, “Wow, I don't know why. Thank you, I’m glad that you do, but…”
EDDIE: If there was a definitive answer to that question, no movie would be made. Just something worked really magically for these films.
Seann, was Stifler like someone you knew in school?
SEANN: I think a lot of the kids that I went to school with, a lot of the guys, were kind of like that character as far as they wouldn’t act like that in front of other kids, but the guys would get together and they would joke around. They had the jock mentality. A lot of the kids are still doing the same thing, which isn’t a bad thing. They played sports, they went to college, and they thought they were still ‘the guy’ in college when they really gained the freshman fifteen and lost their pizzazz a little bit. Then they’re still doing the same thing pretty much out of college. They’re back in school as the football coach. I do think there are a lot of guys like that.
Was there ever talk of having Stifler be gay?
SEANN: I was expecting getting a script and finding out that he was gay because he was always so ambiguous. No, I never talked about it. I think it was always the way it ended up, that he ends up at a gay bar and feels threatened by this guy. The only reason he has the dance is because he can’t face the fact that the other guy, Bear, doesn’t want him. They end up being friends, which I thought was cool.
Did you choreograph your big dance-off scene?
SEANN: There was a lady that did the choreography, Margueritte [Derricks]. She did the choreography for “Austin Powers” and the MTV Movie Awards. Jesse [Dylan] and I, we kind of picked [the songs] together. I had an idea of what I wanted to do and what I thought I could do. Then we practiced on and off for a month with Eric [Allen Kramer], who played Bear. I was really worried because I wasn’t able to get a lot of the stuff, and I think it worked.
What makes Jim and Michelle a special couple compared to other movie couples?
SEANN: I just love what Jason [Biggs] and Alyson [Hannigan] did throughout the whole series. A lot of why I think the movie works so well is because they are so great. Alyson had such a specific character and she never went away from that, but she built off what she did in the first one. What’s sweet is that the movie’s about these two kids about to get married and wondering if they’re making the right decision, and him just wanting to give her the best wedding. So, I think it’s really what they did.
EDDIE: I think Jason and Alyson do such a good job of playing two flawed people who love each other’s flaws so much. They’re not perfect. I almost wish you saw more of that in movies. Jim just loves that Michelle is the band geek and Michelle loves that Jim is the dork. I can’t think of any other movies like that, but if there were more, that’s really what people love about each other in real life, too. I love how imperfect they are and that obviously, Jason isn’t the best-looking man.
