Seann Wiliam Scott usually gets to be the funny jerk in movies. Stifler stole the American Pie movies. He plays the victim to Billy Bob Thornton in Mr. Woodcock. Scott was so enamored with his costar that he became a total groupie.
Seann William Scott Takes on Mr. Woodcock
“Billy invited me over to his place,” Scott recalled. “It was such a treat for me to go and hang out with him and I got to listen to his music and his house is amazing. It's the Snake Pit, right? Downstairs, where Guns N Roses recorded all their music. It's this insane studio so I was able to listen to music and see his place, see this recording studio and listen to his music. It was awesome. So then when I was about to leave, I'd asked him if he had any copies of his films because there's a lot that I'd seen. I'd seen U-Turn maybe like five times. He had an extra copy so I just wanted to get every one of his films. So we're talking about it and I think he ordered food, and literally as he was opening the door, I had his movies in my hand and gave him a hug. The delivery guy's standing there just like [shocked]. It was such a funny scene. I had a stack of his movies. I'm like, ‘Thank you so much. Thanks for inviting me over. It was really great.’"
Then Scott felt bad for injuring his hero during a comedic wrestling scene. “It kind of sucked. Honestly, we’ve talked about this scene like in the sequence but it really sucked. It wasn’t really fun at all. We knew it was going to be funny but like I didn’t want to hurt Billy and he didn’t want to hurt me and we were getting hurt and like it was one of those things we were like hopefully this is funny so it’s all worth it, and so it’s a weird thing. It’s one thing to do a stunt and take a fall but it was so many weird little things. And, for me, it’s like I’m working with one of my favorite actors on the planet and the last thing I want to do is do something wrong. When you showed up the second day with a broken foot, I felt terrible. He showed up with a cast! I felt awful. I go home and I’m like, after that I’m like, the few friends that I have I’m like, ‘Yep, I broke Billy Bob Thornton’s foot. That’s how bad of an actor I am.’ I was an athlete. I can’t even do that right.”
Mr. Woodcock
Mr. Woodcock
The relationship in the movie is adversarial, with Thornton playing a mean gym coach. Luckily, all of Scott’s real life teachers were nice. ‘I was pretty lucky. I had some coaches that were pretty rough. They were tough and I think actually in a good way because they pushed me to not want to play sports anymore. I think I probably would have played professional baseball if it hadn't been for them. So then I wanted to be an actor. That's when I graduated early and moved out to LA to do this.”
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