Shannon Elizabeth, who portrayed Nadia in the hit coming-of-age comedy film, American Pie, has revealed her salary from the movie, and fans are shocked.
It comes after the star said that if the movie were to be released today, it would present a challenge because of a particular scene she starred in.
Elizabeth was alluding to the clip where foreign exchange student Nadia is filmed changing in her bedroom, as well as other more intimate moments.
Speaking out about the scene, Elizabeth told Page Six: “If this had come out after the #MeToo movement, there would definitely be a problem. I think that it would have gone down differently.”
Being a relatively new actress at the time, she understandably found the sequence challenging to shoot. She said: “It was a closed set and it was just me in this room and the boom guy above me.”
She added: “I was like, ‘This is so weird.’ It was a square room they had built in the middle of a warehouse and we made everyone that didn’t need to be there leave set.
“That’s the main thing I remember, just me and the boom guy, and trying to make jokes with the directors and make light of it because if I wasn’t nervous maybe they wouldn’t be so nervous… I just tried to make it no big deal.”
Elizabeth also discussed her feelings regarding the accent she employed in the film as well as her thoughts on the awkward moment.
When Elizabeth was tasked with dubbing her lines for the movie, she became frustrated because she believed she couldn’t get the accent right.
She allegedly warned pals not to see the comedy since her experience was so awful.
Elizabeth said: “I told all my friends, ‘This movie’s gonna suck’ ‘cause they messed with my accent so much! I was like, ‘No, they’re ruining it, don’t watch it’.
“A lot of people did say my accent was terrible and I’m like, ‘Yeah, ‘cause they messed with it – they didn’t let me do what I wanted to do.’”
The star also opened up to Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum about how she felt when approached in regards to a sequel to the movie.
“For the second one? Many times. I walked away from a lot of offers. My lawyer and my manager and agent, they all thought I was crazy and I kept saying no. They were pushing me to say yes and I was like uh-uh,” she shared, via LADBible.
“I just kept saying no, they would bring me things, I was like uh-uh. I don’t know why, I guess I had a number in my head I knew they should pay. I got them to that number and my team was very excited I said no all the other times.
“I didn’t get paid on the first one hardly, I think it was something like a couple of thousand. It wasn’t a lot, it was nothing.
“You know you get like 15 minutes, you’ve got to milk it. I think every actor as soon as they’re done with a role if they don’t have another one lined up they think, ‘that’s it, I’m never gonna book another role.’
“I would always have this anxiety when I would wrap a movie if I didn’t have something else booked like ‘I’m never gonna work again’, you kind of freak out. It’s part of being an actor, all my friends said they had that feeling.”
