by no means has to fret about dropping his head. In any case, he already lived that have in Remaining Vacation spot. Launched in 2000, that franchise-launching horror film memorably turned the Grim Reaper right into a malevolent Rube Goldberg, looking a bunch of teenage aircraft crash survivors by a collection of elaborate traps.
Working example: after a near-miss with a near-train collision, Scott’s genial doofus, Billy Hitchcock, is claimed by Dying courtesy of a flying piece of shrapnel that separates his head from his physique. It was a convincing-enough demise that Scott’s real-life older brother assumed he’d be visiting Hollywood to place flowers on his younger sibling’s grave.
“My older brother watched Remaining Vacation spot in theaters, and when my head received lower off, he had a full-on freak-out,” Scott tells Yahoo Leisure with a hearty giggle. “He threw his popcorn in all places, then ran as much as the aisle and went to the toilet and was throwing up in all places. He referred to as our mother, and mentioned: ‘Seann simply received his head lower off!’ And he or she was like, ‘Um… it is a film.'”
However Scott’s sibling nonetheless wasn’t satisfied he hadn’t seen his child brother snuffed onscreen. And the actor confesses to intentionally prolonging his agony. “I deliberately did not name him again for a very long time simply to mess with him,” Scott says. “After I lastly did speak to him, I used to be like, ‘Dude, it is only a film.'” Hey, at least he didn’t pull a Seven and mail his brother his head in a field…
For the document, Scott actually did have a plaster head made for his demise scene, and insists that have was scarier than capturing his decapitation. “I didn’t like that in any respect,” he remembers. “They wrap your head so you’ll be able to’t hear and you may’t breath. I had a full panic assault, and was freaking out.”
Ultimately, the particular results crew received him to relax through the use of just a little aggressive psychology. “They mentioned, ‘You are doing higher than this man,'” Scott says, declining to say the identify of the actor he was being pitted towards. “I settled into it, as a result of I assumed to myself, ‘I’ve gotta do higher than that man!'”
Scott was notably delicate to being in comparison with different actors since Remaining Vacation spot director James Wong wasn’t initially positive he was proper for the movie. Speaking with Yahoo Entertainment in 2020, Wong revealed that the actor’s scene-stealing efficiency as Stifler in American Pie appeared too far faraway from the sort of performer they needed for Billy.
“Billy was written as this type of dorky man … so it took just a little little bit of convincing,” Wong defined. “However once we met [Seann], he does have a goofy high quality to him despite the fact that he has these leading-man appears to be like. So we went with him, and it labored out actually nice as a result of he was so fashionable from American Pie.”
For his half, Scott remembers that Stifler’s lack of dork-itude was a possible roadblock. “They most likely noticed that character and thought, ‘He would not appear to be Billy Hitchcock,'” the actor says. However his personal innate dorkiness in the end shone by. “I am such a dork that it did not take lengthy,” Scott says with a smile. “[James] most likely spent two minutes with me and was like, ‘He is good.'”
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Remaining Vacation spot is at the moment streaming on Max
