"They kept hearing about American Pie and pie and [asking], 'Daddy, what do you do with the pie?' and I had to have a conversation with my oldest,"
"I actually showed him the scene. Jenny and I talked about this, and we were like, 'We want to get ahead of this.'"
"It's my version of a sex talk, right? It's like, how much do you want them to hear from friends and other people at school, and how much do you want to control the narrative, and it was literally happening with American Pie."
"I was just curious, and he actually guessed correctly. He guessed it, so in a way, I almost didn't control the narrative,"
Jason Biggs and wife Jenny Mollen have two sons, Sid, 11, and Lazlo, eight. The boys frequently encounter questions from peers about the American Pie pie gag. A passerby once shouted a crude reference in public, prompting concern that the children might hear. To preempt school gossip and control what his oldest learned, Biggs showed his eldest the infamous apple-related scene from the 1999 film. Biggs treated the viewing as a version of a sex talk and used the moment to determine how much the child already knew and to steer the narrative before friends or strangers could shape it.
Read at The Independent
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