‘American Pie’ star Jason Biggs is now ‘class mom’ in one of his kid’s classes
16.06.2024 - 13:23
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hosts of TBS’ revival of “Dinner and Movie,” which premiered this month — live in the West Village with their sons Sid, 10, and Lazlo, 6.Biggs is one of the class moms in Sid’s class — the only father in the class to take on the role.“In the whole school, there’s only one other dad this year. Last year, I think I was the only dad,” he said.“At our class parents meetings the first Tuesday of every month … I was usually the only guy in there [aside from] one of the administrators.”The actor, who grew up in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, explained what the job entails.“The end of the year, we do the gifts for the teachers.
We send out the emails after the class parents’ meeting … We also help organize class trips.”Biggs just chaperoned a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and said vying for the position can get very competitive. “Everyone wants to chaperone.
I mean, when I was a kid, it was like you had to pay parents off the street,” he quipped. “But now it’s like there’s a whole group of us helicopter parents just knocking at the door, ready to get in.”Biggs and Mollen said parents at the school are unimpressed by their celebrity status.
“In LA, I feel like celebrity is the currency, but in New York City, it’s like everybody’s doing something crazier than the next person. So even if they were impressed, they would never want you to know it,” said Mollen, a native of Arizona.Biggs, whose breakout role was playing the lead in the 1999 hit comedy “American Pie,” recalled the first time he brought a VHS copy of the film home to his parents.
“I was actually quite nervous, so I didn’t watch it with them. I was downstairs in their house and they were upstairs watching, and I was kind of listening and I could hear them laughing,” he
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