"I would say, a good 95 per cent of the movies I've done, I've played a total moron. It was an era of trippy, MTV-brained genre hopping, and jokes designed to make you hurl. Tom Green was a leading man. So, too, was Scott for a while, in things like Ivan Reitman's goofy Evolution, the cult Canadian ice hockey comedy Goon, or the Dukes of Hazzard movie."
"I never really thought of Stifler as being dumb. I saw him more as somebody who just wanted to be loved. Scott more or less defined American comedy 25 years ago, playing the handsome yet rubber-faced goof in a host of movies that were ribald and scatalogical for their first two-thirds, then sweetly sentimental after that."
"Why don't they make comedies any more? It just seems like it's been so long now. I'm trying to remember when the last big, successful R-rated comedy came out. I definitely haven't made one since American Reunion. And that let's-get-the-gang-back-together sequel was, depressingly, 14 years ago now."
Seann William Scott became a defining figure in early 2000s comedy by portraying foolish, crude characters in films like American Pie, Dude, Where's My Car?, and Role Models. He rejects the notion that his most famous character, Stifler, was simply dumb, instead viewing him as someone seeking acceptance. Scott acknowledges playing moronic roles in approximately 95 percent of his films during an era of MTV-influenced, scatological humor that balanced gross-out comedy with sentimental moments. He notes the significant decline in R-rated comedies, with his last major success in the genre being American Reunion 14 years prior, observing that audiences still cherish his films as comfort entertainment despite the genre's disappearance from contemporary filmmaking.
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