Seann William Scott explains why 'American Pie' couldn't be made today

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By Kim Novak

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American Pie is without doubt one of the most popular film franchises of the early 2000s, but there are questions over whether it would pass if it were released today.

The first movie in the series was released in 1999 and delighted and shocked viewers in equal measure as a group of high school students made it their mission to lose their virginities on prom night.

From Jim (Jason Biggs) stripping on webcam to that infamous scene with a warm apple pie, the movies never shied away from sex or crude punchlines.

However, even Seann William Scott - who played the party boy Steve Stifler - believes that the same jokes and themes probably wouldn't go down well with audiences today.

Addressing why he believes that it just wouldn't work 24 years on, Sean told Jake's Takes: "You know, I was having a conversation with a friend the other day, I was like, 'You could never make American Pie these days.'

"Some of the stuff in that movie, you would get arrested and probably go to jail for a long time if you did it."

I mean, he's not wrong there...

Seann also added that he doesn't "ever see there being an appetite" for "those sorts of movies again", believing that people today are more "appreciating more of a witty, smart humor and good writing as opposed to just something kind of over-the-top."

While it might prove too near the knuckle for the woke audiences of today, American Pie was so popular it spawned three more sequels - 2001's American Pie 2, American Wedding in 2003, and American Reunion in 2012.

There was also a spin-off series of five films titled American Pie Presents: Band Camp, American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile, American Pie Presents: Beta House, American Pie Presents: The Book Of Love, and American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules.

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Seann's latest project is Welcome To Flatch. Credit: FOX via Getty Images

The spin-off series was released direct to video and centered on family members of the Stifler clan, and while most of the main stars did not appear in the series, some familiar faces including Jim's dad (Eugene Levy) and Chuck Sherman (Chris Owen) did pop up.

While he will probably always be best known as Stifler by a certain age group of millennials, Seann has continued to act in many other films.

His latest work is Welcome to Flatch, a mockumentary sitcom following the lives of the residents of a small town, which is based on the British series This Country, created and starred in by Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper.

Featured image credit: Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Deadline Hollywood