No lose situation for Biggs

Jason Biggs10 April 2012

It's about a guy called Paul, played by me - a smalltown guy who goes to a New York college on a scholarship and is the proverbial outsider. He doesn't fit in, nothing is right about him: clothes, accent, attitudes. His rich roommates hit on him and even his Eng Lit professor [played by Greg Kinnear] delights in marking him down. Eventually his roommates get him billeted elsewhere, at a local veterinary hospital, and then even this loser gets lucky.

I know what it's like to feel like Paul, feel like an outcast, though not quite as much as he is. Everybody goes through that at some time. I was definitely the kid that got picked on, especially when I was younger. I was little, a short kid - and an actor. I grew up acting from the age of five on commercials and in catalogues - grounds for people to pick on me.

Then when I went to college I was, like Paul, an out-of-town boy - from a small town in New Jersey - and that was grounds to be picked on. But it gave me the motivation to succeed, the "I'll show you guys!" factor and I've no doubt it got me to where I am now.

To pick on somebody because they're different doesn't make them a loser. The whole point of the movie is that Paul is not the loser - his roommates are. He gets the girl [Mena Suvari] in the end! People who are quick to judge others tend to become bullies and they're the losers.

Amy Heckerling, who wrote and directed Clueless, is the person behind this film and I think she's tapped into the people who don't have it all, who don't fit in.

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