Alyson Hannigan Explains Why She Initially Refused To Sign On For ‘American Pie 2’
deadline.comOne time, Alyson Hannigan almost missed the bus back to band camp. Ahead of the 1999 teen movie’s 25th anniversary, the American Pie actress reminisced about her role as lovable band nerd Michelle Flaherty in the raunchy franchise and how she almost wasn’t in the sequels. “The best story from the whole thing was that, you know, it was a low-budget movie with all these tiers of negotiations,” Hannigan told Vulture. “There was an A-tier and a B-tier.
I think I was on the bottom C-tier with Seann [William Scott].” She explained that the tiers were “in regards to pay,” adding: “So it’s just scale plus 10 [percent to an agent].
There’s no negotiating on the C-tier because the character is not that important. “I was like, ‘Okay, fine.’ It was seven days and it was more of a passion project.
Then, in the contract, there was a sequel clause,” Hannigan continued. “I said, ‘Look, I’m getting paid scale plus 10. I’m not going to sign for a sequel.
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