Matthew Lillard ‘Can’t Imagine’ Reprising Scooby-Doo’s Shaggy Now — But He’ll Rent Out the Mystery Machine on Airbnb
09.06.2022 - 21:13
/ usmagazine.com
Zoinks! Matthew Lillard is traveling back in time to visit the Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine 20 years after the live-action film’s 2002 release.
The Good Girls alum, 52, has teamed with Airbnb to invite fans to book a stay in the Mystery Machine van, which will be decked out in the grooviest gadgets from the ’60s-era. He will welcome the lucky guests with a virtual video — (“They didn’t make me put the bell bottoms on, thank God!”) — but don’t expect Lillard to reprise the role of Shaggy on the big screen any time soon.
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“We are all now in our fifties. I can’t imagine us as meddling teenagers and playing meddling teenagers anymore. The good news is that the thrilling thing for me is I still get to do the voice so I’m still engaged in the character. I’m still engaged in the franchise,” he exclusively told Us Weekly on Monday, June 6. “I hold this character as mine until they replace me and move me out to pasture. I take a lot of pride in that, so it’s really nice to be connected to a character all these years later. But if they ever did Scooby apocalypse, maybe then I would do it.”
Lillard starred as Norville “Shaggy” Rogers in Scooby-Doo and the 2004 sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed alongside Freddie Prinze Jr. (Fred), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Daphne) and Linda Cardellini (Velma).
“I flew down to audition for the part. I was the first person they saw. We auditioned at like 10:00 AM on a Saturday morning,” Lillard recalled to Us. “And the only way I could do the voice originally was to scream myself horse. So I pulled into the audition and — I’ll never forget — the director [Raja Gosnell] and the producer were walking across the parking lot. I didn’t see them at the time. And I was
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