How To Survive An 'American Wedding' Junket
Friday, July 18, 01:30 PMThe best part about spending three days locked in a room in The Four Seasons Hotel talking up your new movie to scores of reporters? ''Cocaine and whores,'' jokes American Wedding star Jason Biggs, taking a break from the spirit-sucking siege that is the Hollywood press junket. ''Okay, maybe just the cocaine. Okay, maybe not even that.'' Yeah, the press junket can be a brain-numbing affair -- especially if you have to promote a stinker. ''If the press doesn't like the movie, you're going to find out right away,'' says Seann William Scott. Luckily, no one plugging Universal's second sequel to American Pie detected bad vibes. Still, says Eugene Levy, ''It's tedious. You have to answer the same question 800 times and make it sound like the first time.'' How to deal? Biggs prefers multivitamins, heavy on the B-12. ''Caffeine is a little friend of mine,'' says Alyson Hannigan, who particularly appreciated the complimentary Red Bull. Adds Eddie Kaye Thomas, ''Well, I'm an actor, so I guess I have to try and act.'' Additional compensation: a new Gameboy in each actor's suite -- ''Two bathrooms!'' enthuses Hannigan. Adds Biggs, ''I steal all the Bulgari soaps.''
