Jason Biggs’ Wife on Watching American Pie for the First Time: “I Was Horrified”
Jason Biggs should thank his lucky stars his wife didn’t watch his 1999 comedy American Pie before marrying him. She admits she “was horrified” when she finally did.
Jenny Mollen, who married Biggs at FedEx Kinko’s in 2008, told the New York Post that she didn’t watch the classic when she first started dating her now-husband. “I felt like I was too highbrow theater major at the time,” the 45-year-old American actress and writer revealed. “I was too busy hanging out at like an indie video store.”
As it turns out, Biggs wasn’t put off by it. In fact, he found it “quite refreshing.”
The film was one of the biggest box-office hits at the time. Relatable and hilarious moments, a talented cast, and a soundtrack full of bangers made it a cult favorite.
“I have a real appreciation for the impact the movie has had,” Biggs shares with CBS Mornings ahead of the movie’s 25th anniversary. “I knew it at the time. It was certainly a wild ride, its impact and people’s reaction to it was immediate,” he says.
Jenny Mollen finally watched the movie in the first year of their marriage. She says she sat in horror while watching her husband, who played the role of a sexually frustrated teenager, get intimate with an apple pie. “But it was funny,” she admits.
“No matter what, I am going to be the pie guy forever,” Biggs says.
He reflects on the time a fan shouted “You’re the guy that f—ed the pie,” when he was out with his wife and son.
“My wife and I at that moment, we were like, shoot, this is how we’re gonna have to explain this whole thing to (our son.) We dodged a bullet. But it’s gonna happen. It’s inevitable. I don’t know when, hopefully, we’ve got a little bit of time,” he says.
The couple hosts TBS’ revival of Dinner and Movie. They looked back at their first date and what the actor wore at the time: a yellow sweater vest. Mollen jokes, “It looked like he was about to go golfing in a Caddyshack movie.”
Biggs, always a sport, replied: “I was going for Caddyshack Chic. ‘Caddy chic,’ I call it.”
The husband-wife duo also dove into why they eloped. “Our parents were driving us crazy at the time. We were in our 20s and didn’t want to be beholden to whatever their ideas of our union looked like,” Mollen shared.
Mollen explains how it went down, and it can be its own movie.
“I was doing some sort of Pilates class and this woman said, ‘Oh, I know a woman who can come over. She’s a justice of the peace, and she can marry you literally in your pajamas, in your bed.’ But when they called her up, she told them had a busy schedule that day but could help them if they met her at a shipping retailer.
“We were just young and excited and insanely impulsive. And we jumped in the car and were like, ‘We’ll be right there,’” she fondly recalls.
“Actually, we had to do verbal vows to make it official in addition to signing the paperwork. And we did it out by the car because we had our dogs with us.”
Three dogs in tow, at a Taco Bell—now that’s a wedding to remember!
