{"id":94614,"date":"2025-07-26T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94614\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:24:11","slug":"mena-suvari-on-if-shed-star-in-another-american-pie-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/94614\/","title":{"rendered":"Mena Suvari on if she&#8217;d star in another &#8216;American Pie&#8217; movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s hungry for another slice.<\/p>\n<p>Mena Suvari says she\u2019s down for a fifth helping of \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d \u2014 telling The Post she\u2019d \u201clove to\u201d return for another installment of the popular sex-comedy franchise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that people have been talking about it. I feel like audiences would really appreciate it. I\u2019ve seen videos that fans have put together as a trailer for it. There\u2019s like all kinds of stuff out there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mena Suvari, pictured here with Chris Klein, who plays her love interest in the \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d franchise, said she would want their characters to stay together. \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t heard anything official, but I\u2019d love to be a part of it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Suvari, 46, who was signed by the prestigious Wilhelmina modeling agency at 12, landed her breakout role in the series\u2019 debut movie \u2014 which sparked three more that grossed a total of nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/movies\/franchise\/American-Pie#tab=summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">$1 billion at the box office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d kicked off in 1999, the Newport, RI native shot to fame, becoming a household name for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wq0lRSspO9Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">her portrayal of Heather<\/a>, a fresh-faced high school choir singer who catches the eye of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yB1wYLm0FIU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oz, played by Chris Klein<\/a>, a jock on the lacrosse team.<\/p>\n<p>Suvari said if there were to be a fifth movie, she\u2019d want them to still be together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it would be wonderful to still have a relationship with Oz and maybe they have some sort of future together or family,\u201d she said of the characters, who reunite at their high school reunion in 2012\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9jBifToID1E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">American Reunion<\/a>,\u201d the last film of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always said that \u2018American Pie\u2019 gave me my high school experience,\u201d Suvari told The Post. \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>Suvari, who graduated from Providence High School\u00a0in\u00a0Burbank, CA, said her high school experience was \u201cvery, very different\u201d than her on-screen one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was sort of like in survival mode for the most part,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always said that \u2018American Pie\u2019 gave me my high school experience because I didn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suvari, who was signed by Wilhelmina modeling agency at age 12, landed her breakout role in \u201cAmerican Pie,\u201d which debuted in 1999. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The actress reunited with her \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d co-stars Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan to film a segment for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/22\/entertainment\/jason-biggs-wife-reveals-she-didnt-see-american-pie-until-after-they-were-married-i-was-too-busy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Biggs and his wife Jenny Mollen\u2019s<\/a> \u201cDinner and Movie\u201d series on TBS which will air next month \u2014 and she even brought some movie memorabilia she had unearthed during a move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found an \u2018American Pie\u2019 script \u2026 I had written down the address [on it] for I think it was the rehearsal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what\u2019s my favorite about that is that I had drawn out like the crossing of the streets because back in the day we didn\u2019t have Nav [navigation app] \u2026 I had even draw out like what streets it was on and where to turn. So it was really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the new film \u201cIck,\u201d the actress plays a teenaged version of herself, alongside her co-star Brandon Routh. Fathom Entertainment<\/p>\n<p>Her new film, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rKcveV-MMFY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ick<\/a>,\u201d a sci-fi horror comedy, out nationwide on Sunday, is also based in high school \u2014 and at the start of the movie, she appears as the teen version of herself alongside her co-star Brandon Routh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt definitely was surreal. I don\u2019t think I ever would have thought that I\u2019d be doing something like that in my career,\u201d said Suvari, who shares a 4-year-old son with her husband Michael Hope, a set designer she met on the 2016 Hallmark movie\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ll Be Home for Christmas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing a mom in my 40s and putting on a cheerleading uniform again was just something I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She\u2019s hungry for another slice. 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