Hot: 'It Was the Opposite of What You Saw in the Movie' — American Pie Actress Shannon Elizabeth Details 'Difficult' Audition Where She Had to Dance for Jason Biggs

American Pie'It Was the Opposite of What You Saw in the Movie' — American Pie Actress Shannon Elizabeth Details 'Difficult' Audition Where She Had to Dance for Jason Biggs"scar was I."By Lex BriscusoUpdated: Apr 13, 2026 7:10pm UTC18 commentsAmerican Pie star Shannon Elizabeth had her breakout role in the beloved 1999 teen comedy — but before packing on the laughs, she recently revealed she was “really scared” during the audition process.

"The audition process for American Pie was difficult," Elizabeth, who played the film’s foreign exchange student Nadia, explained to Fox News in an interview published on Sunday, April 12.

"I was scared.

I was really scared."Elizabeth revealed that her audition required her to do the big scene where the main character, Jim, does a striptease dance to a Barenaked Ladies song on a footage call, but with the roles reversed.

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"In the audition, it was the opposite of what you saw in the movie," she said.

"I had to dance for Jason instead of him dancing for me."Even though the scene in the film ultimately put the onus on Jason Biggs, the movie’s star, to do the striptease, the audition marked the beginning of a challenging role for Elizabeth, despite the fact that it was her big breakout part."I’m not somebody [who’s] super comfortable in my own skin, to be honest," she told the outlet.

"But, you just overcome that.

When you have to turn it on, you have to work, because I do love working.

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I do love acting.

So you just let everything else go."She went on to have roles in many iconic comedies, including Love Actually and Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back.

But aside from her role in the first two and fourth American Pie films, most people probably know her from her part as Buffy Gilmore in the 2000 comedy classic Scary Movie.

At this point, her death scene in that film is iconic, and heavily quoted to boot.

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Shannon Elizabeth at the 33rd Annual EMA Awards Gala held at Sunset Las Palmas Studios on January 27, 2024 in Los Angeles, California ## Editor's Note Stay tuned for more updates as this story develops. Source: [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/it-was-the-opposite-of-what-you-saw-in-the-movie-american-pie-actress-shannon-elizabeth-details-difficult-audition-where-she-had-to-dance-for-jason-biggs)