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If you were a teenager in the ’90s or the early 2000s, there’s a good chance that, for better or for worse, your viewing of American Pie had an impact on you. That’s something that star Jason Biggs has fully acknowledged about the film — and why he decided to go ahead and show his 11-year-old son the infamous pie scene from the movie that people still talk about today before he ended up coming across it himself.
The scene itself still haunts Jason.
During an appearance on the Julia Cunningham Show on SiriusXM, Jason admitted that he and wife Jenny Mollen decided the time was right to show their preteen son, Sid, the scene from the movie so they could discuss it as a family.
“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,” Jason said. “I actually showed him the scene. Jenny and I talked about this, and we were like, ‘We want to get ahead of this.’ ”
He called it “my version of a sex talk.”
He went into it knowing it wouldn’t be easy for him or Sid, but it was simply a conversation that had to be had.
“It’s my version of a sex talk, right?” he said. “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.”
Before showing him the scene, Jason asked his son what he thought happened with the pie, and “he actually guessed correctly.”
“He was embarrassed to say it, very embarrassed, but I was like, ‘Okay. Let me show you. Let me show you what happened,’ and so I showed him the scene, and he laughed and laughed,” Jason said, adding, “He was a little uncomfortable for sure. He did say I was a good actor.”
All things considered, it sounds like the moment went as well as it could have.
His story ended up sparking a bit of backlash.
In response to the New York Post‘s article about the conversation that was shared on X, more than one person shared their belief that the NSFW scene isn’t one that would have been appropriate to share with an 11-year-old.
“Because he needs attention,” another added.
Obviously, it worked for Jason and his family… and hopefully, Sid isn’t too scarred by seeing his dad in that position!
