'It Was the Opposite of What You Saw in the Movie' — American Pie Actress Shannon Elizabeth Details 'Difficult' Audition Where She Had to Dance for Jason Biggs

American Pie prima Shannon Elizabeth had her breakout relation successful the beloved 1999 teen drama — but earlier packing connected the laughs, she precocious revealed she was “really scared” during the audition process.

"The audition process for American Pie was difficult," Elizabeth, who played the film’s overseas speech pupil Nadia, explained to Fox News successful an interrogation published connected Sunday, April 12. "I was scared. I was truly scared."

Elizabeth revealed that her audition required her to bash the large country wherever the main character, Jim, does a striptease creation to a Barenaked Ladies opus connected a video call, but with the roles reversed. "In the audition, it was the other of what you saw successful the movie," she said. "I had to creation for Jason alternatively of him dancing for me."

Even though the country successful the movie yet enactment the onus connected Jason Biggs, the movie’s star, to bash the striptease, the audition marked the opening of a challenging relation for Elizabeth, contempt the information that it was her large breakout part.

"I’m not idiosyncratic [who’s] ace comfy successful my ain skin, to beryllium honest," she told the outlet. "But, you conscionable flooded that. When you person to crook it on, you person to work, due to the fact that I bash emotion working. I bash emotion acting. So you conscionable fto everything other go."

She went connected to person roles successful galore iconic comedies, including Thirteen Ghosts, Love Actually, and Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back. But speech from her relation successful the archetypal 2 and 4th American Pie films, astir radical astir apt cognize her from her portion arsenic Buffy Gilmore successful the 2000 drama classical Scary Movie. At this point, her decease country successful that movie is iconic, and heavy quoted to boot.

Shannon Elizabeth astatine the 33rd Annual EMA Awards Gala held astatine Sunset Las Palmas Studios connected January 27, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California. Photo by Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images.

Elizabeth has since pivoted from acting to conservation enactment and nary longer performs afloat clip — but that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t instrumentality for different locomotion successful the American Pie universe. "I would emotion to spot a movie wherever it’s each astir Nadia backmost successful her location state and what she does there, and pursuing her around, seeing her day-to-day beingness now," the erstwhile histrion said of her hopes for different film. "I deliberation that would beryllium truthful overmuch fun."

The past American Pie film, American Reunion, came retired successful 2012, truthful it wouldn’t beryllium excessively astonishing if Universal decides to prosecute a bequest sequel astatine immoderate constituent successful the adjacent future. That said, we haven’t heard thing factual astir different installment, truthful Elizabeth mightiness conscionable person to support waiting.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.