She’s hungry for one more slice.
Mena Suvari says she’s down for a fifth serving to of “American Pie” — telling The Put up she’d “love to” return for one more installment of the favored sex-comedy franchise.
“I know that people have been talking about it. I feel like audiences would really appreciate it. I’ve seen videos that fans have put together as a trailer for it. There’s like all kinds of stuff out there,” she stated.
“I haven’t heard anything official, but I’d love to be a part of it.”
Suvari, 46, who was signed by the celebrated Wilhelmina modeling company at 12, landed her breakout position within the sequence’ debut film — which sparked three extra that grossed a complete of practically $1 billion on the field workplace.
After “American Pie” kicked off in 1999, the Newport, RI native shot to fame, turning into a family title for her portrayal of Heather, a fresh-faced highschool choir singer who catches the attention of Oz, performed by Chris Klein, a jock on the lacrosse staff.
Suvari stated if there have been to be a fifth film, she’d need them to nonetheless be collectively.
“I think it would be wonderful to still have a relationship with Oz and maybe they have some sort of future together or family,” she stated of the characters, who reunite at their highschool reunion in 2012’s “American Reunion,” the final movie of the franchise.
Suvari, who graduated from Windfall Excessive Faculty in Burbank, CA, stated her highschool expertise was “very, very different” than her on-screen one.
“I was sort of like in survival mode for the most part,” she stated.
“I’ve always said that ‘American Pie’ gave me my high school experience because I didn’t have a boyfriend like that or go to prom or have a loving relationship. It was sort of just do the work, I was ready to graduate, that type of thing.”
The actress reunited along with her “American Pie” co-stars Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan to movie a phase for Biggs and his spouse Jenny Mollen’s “Dinner and Movie” sequence on TBS which can air subsequent month — and he or she even introduced some film memorabilia she had unearthed throughout a transfer.
“I found an ‘American Pie’ script … I had written down the address [on it] for I think it was the rehearsal,” she stated.
“And what’s my favorite about that is that I had drawn out like the crossing of the streets because back in the day we didn’t have Nav [navigation app] … I had even draw out like what streets it was on and where to turn. So it was really cool.”
Her new movie, “Ick,” a sci-fi horror comedy, out nationwide on Sunday, can also be primarily based in highschool — and firstly of the film, she seems as the teenager model of herself alongside her co-star Brandon Routh.
“It definitely was surreal. I don’t think I ever would have thought that I’d be doing something like that in my career,” stated Suvari, who shares a 4-year-old son along with her husband Michael Hope, a set designer she met on the 2016 Hallmark film “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”
“Being a mom in my 40s and putting on a cheerleading uniform again was just something I didn’t think I’d been doing.”
