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...didn't mean to create the devil. He just wanted a job. But when Seann William Scott quit his gig stocking shelves at Home Depot to audition for the 10-line part of Steve Stifler in 1999's teen-sex comedy American Pie, he unwittingly invented the icon of the Generation Y frat boy, the Eustace Tilly of the Maxim set. Scott's Stifler, who returns this Friday in the Pie franchise's third installment, American Wedding, is a rich kid dedicated to humiliating those who appear to be his friends. In the first film, he slipped a laxative...
...somehow one of the most despicable characters in recent cinema became beloved. The secret was combining the classic protagonist and antagonist from teen movies: Stifler is both John Belushi's drunk moron Bluto and the Waspy frat president Greg Marmalard from Animal House. He's a jerk, but he sure...
...person, Scott, 26, is soft-spoken, with a Minnesota accent--far more like a middle-school principal than a yob. But his actual personality is irrelevant to his appeal. To his fans, there is no Seann William Scott. Only Stifler. In the hour we're together at a Los Angeles coffee shop, two guys tell him how much they love Stifler. The night before our meeting, a bouncer at a nightclub told him, "Anything you need, Stifler. Anything." This conflation of actor and role is partly because of Scott's limited onscreen profile. His other film credits include Dude, Where...
Scott says he doesn't quite know why Stifler appeals so much to young guys: "I guess he's the guy who says the things you want to say but don't have the b____ to say. He's never had the intention of hurting people's feelings. He just doesn't know." The third Pie movie, which Scott says the studio persuaded him to do by offering him a good script and better cash, focuses on Stifler's lack of character growth as he enters his mid-20s. "At the end of the movie, he does something good without...
...actually appears to like Finch and regard him as a bro. The other dudes are middle-of-the-road types who don't seem particularly interested in sports other than dessert-humping but who show up at the game to cheer on Klein. The only exception is Stifler, who shuts the band geeks out of his party, but who in turn is only tolerated because he has a house to party in and a mom of easy leisure. His jock exclusionism is part and parcel of his pitiable attempt to be a macho...