Regis: Okay, here she comes. Best known as Buffy the Vampires Slayers best friend. Her names Willow. Now she stars in the new comedy film "American Pie" and she's really getting a lot of notice. Here she is, Alyson Hannigan.
*Aly comes out wearing a really bright red dress which looks like it's made out of paper.
Regis: Now, is that dress made out of what I think it is?
Alyson: It's paper.
Regis: A paper dress?
Alyson: Yeah! Isn't it great? I feel very recyclable.
Regis: *Laughs* I've really never seen one of those. *To Kathie Lee* Have you?
Kathie Lee: No, I never have.
Alyson: Well, it's handmade.
Regis: And does she colour it by hand?
Alyson: I have no idea what she does.
Kathie Lee: Does it rip at all?
Alyson: Well, I'm hoping not. *laughs* I was a little worried about sitting in the chair. I'm just going, "Oh, gosh, Please don't rip!"
Regis: Can I touch it?
Alyson: Yes, go ahead.
*Regis feels the cloth of her dress*
Regis: Yeah, it's paper.
*Alyson Laughs*
Alyson: It's so comfortable!
Regis: Yeah, well it's great to have you on the show.
Alyson: Thanks for having me.
Regis: Boy, are things looking up for you. you have the "Buffy" thing on TV, "American Pie" in the movies, you own two houses. *To Kathie Lee* You know what she does? She's like you. She owns houses and then renovates them.
Alyson: Right. Well, I don't myself, but..
Regis: But you contract them?
Alyson: Yeah, right. Well, I try.
Kathie Lee: It's a fun hobby, isn't it?
Alyson: It isn't a hobby, really, because I'm not really productive. Like, I've been so busy lately, I haven't even been at my house to have the people give me an esitmate, so...
Regis: The worst thing you can do is try to renovate.
Alyson: *nods* Right.
Regis: I'm adding on. We started in November, but we are still going on with these guys (contractors) living with us!
Alyson: Oh?
Regis: They've become part of the family!
Kathie Lee: Pick your contractors very carefully. Make sure it's somebody you want to live with.
Alyson *Laughs*
Regis: Well now you've got quite the entarange in you home. You've got the dogs...
Alyson: I've got dogs, I've got cats, I've got mice, and roomates.
Regis: Well, everybody has mice.
Alyson: No, no, they're my pets. I have 2 mice: Pixie and Petunia.
*Audience laughs*
Regis: No kidding? Do they live in a cage?
Alyson: Yes! Oh, gosh yes! And they have the little thing..*mimics the mice with her hands*..and they can go in the little tunnels, and the wheels...
Kathie Lee: And the little treadmill?
Alyson: Yeah, it's really cool.
Regis: Wow.
Alyson: Yeah, but they're nocturnal. And they take..they have these little wood-chew things..and they thake it in the wheel and they run and all night it goes "Flilp..flip.."
Regis: And you're up all night.
Alyson: *rolls eyes* Yeah..
Regis: Do you have a boyfriend?
Alyson: *sounding giddy* Yeah. Yeah, he's great.
Regis: What does he do? Does he walk around the house in his own paper little shorts?
Alyson: *laughs* Ah, no. He's a drummer.
Regis: Oh, he's a drummer?
Alyson: So he's always going like this..*drums her legs, mimicing drumming*
Regis: They got that music in their head, those guys.
Kathie Lee: Shirley Temple was you big influence as a child, right?
Alyson: I LOVE Shirley Temple.
Kathie Lee: She was the most amazing talent..still is!
Alyson: Growing up, I wanted to be her. I wanted the curly hair, and the dimples, and to be able to sing and dance. She was adorable.
Kathie Lee: Well, now the movie you're in is not quite a Shirley Temple movie.
Alyson: *laughs*
Kathie Lee: Hardly, yeah. Now it's gotten quite controversial.
Alyson: It's a raunchy movie but it's funny! It's so..it's so funny.
Regis: How raunchy is it?
Alyson: It's not raunchy like South Park, but it..*audience laughs* .but it's raunchy.
Regis: American Pie. Now what's it about?
Alyson: It's about 4 teenage boys who are really excited about losing their virginity. ANd they make a pact that they're, y'know, going to support each other at, wooing the girls. And they want to lose it before Prom night, too. It's crazy! *laughs*
Regis: What's your part in the movie?
Alyson: I play, well, she's a band geek. And Jason Bigg's character kind of gets enbarassed and nobody will go to the prom with him, and he winds up going with me.
Regis: And he's one of the 4 boys?
Alyson: Yes.
Regis: He takes you to the Prom?
Alyson: Yeah, yeah. Not by choice, I'm just one of the only girls that will go with him.
Regis: Awww..
Alyson: But it's great! I love the character that I play. She's so funny. She talks in question form. She's always..she's always talking about Band Camp.
Regis: Show me "question form". *To Kathie Lee* You're pretty good at this too. You answer her..
Kathie Lee: In Valley Girl talk?
Regis: Yeah. Okay, go.
Alyson: *laughs* Okay..*pauses, thinks of a line. Then in her band geek voice says* This one time in Band Camp....
Kathie Lee: *as Valley Girl* No Way!
Alyson: Yeah! *audience and Alyson laugh* You see, now I want to talk like you!
Regis: Well I see. She always talks *up* at the end of a sentence.
Alyson: Yeah, it was all written in question form, and you'd talk and you're like "What are you doing? Where are yu from? What planet?" And, y'know, I love playing it so much.
Regis: But that's the latest speech.
Alyson: Whenever I'm talking to someone like that, I'm totally stealing from them. I'm just so intrigued by people who talk differently. I'm just going to use that later as a character.
Regis: So how was your audition for American Pie. We just had Jennifer Espizito..no, wait..
*Regis and Kathie Lee argue over wether it was Jennifer Espizito or not. They eventually decide it was*
Regis: Yeah, she tried out, but she didn't get it. She was disappointed.
Alyson: Yeah, Well, for my call-back for American Pie, I had just gotten back from lunch with my managers. And I probably had 12 Iced Teas, and I had to wait in traffic for 40 minutes, so I had to pee SO BAD. I really thought my bladder was going to explode, so I get that nervous energy like "Please! Please! I have to go!"
Kathie Lee: If it happens in that dress, at least you have toilet paper. *Audience and Aly laugh*
Alyson: Yeah, well..
Kathie Lee: It would have been good for it.
Alyson: Yeah, and it's a very, very absorbant dress! *laughs* So anyways, I basically parked the car, ran to the bathroom, so then as I'm washing my hands, they call my name. So I had to go in and I had no time to, y'know, settle down all of that nervous energy after "Oh, I gotta pee!"
Kathie Lee: Wouldn't that work for the character?
Alyson: It did, I guess. I went in and I did my lines and I was *so* over the top. After, I just walked out of there going "They think I need to be institutionalized", 'cause I was so energetic..
Regis: But you got it.
Alyson: And I did.
Kathie Lee: Well, we're going to see it.
Regis: Well see how good you are.
Kathie Lee: *joking* We'll be the judge!
Alyson: *laughs*
Regis: More of Alyson Hannigan from American Pie after this.
*cuts to commercial*
Regis: Welcome back. Alyson Hannigan is our guest. The star of "American Pie" and also "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". And is a big soccer fan. Tomorrow is the world series of soccer.
Alyson: *excited* I know!
Regis: The American vs. the Chinese team.
Alyson: Yeah. I'm so excited! I wish I could be there.
Regis: Did you play yourself?
Alyson: I did. I started playing at 3 years old in an all-boys team. I was the only girl. We were the Mighty Mites. And, y'know, the ball was the size of my leg.
Regis: Yeah.
Alyson: And I just loved it. I played for, like, 10 years, then I got hurt. So now I play every once-and-awhile.
Regis: It seems like there isn't a lot of scoring in soccer there's a lot of running up and down.
Alyson: There is a lot of running.
Kathie Lee: It seems like you must be arobically..well, if you're arobically challanged than avoid the game.
Alyson: Yeah, definetly.
Regis: But, now all of a sudden, this American team..
Alyson: Oh, yeah, they're awesome!
Kathie Lee: Yeah. I'm glad. It's great.
Regis: I hope they win tomorrow. That'll be great.
Alyson: Yeah.
Regis: So now, tell us about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". How many years has that been on?
Alyson: We will be going into our 4th season.
Regis: Wow.
Alyson: *smiles* Yeah.
Regis: and you play her best friend?
Alyson: Yes.
Regis: Now..I haven't seen too many of those. Do you know she's the Vampire Slayer?
Alyson: Yes, but the general public doesn't really know.
Regis: Have you ever seen a Vampire on the show?
Alyson: Oh, yeah! Actually, I think I've Staked a couple. So, yeah.
Kathie Lee: What do you mean you *think* you've staked a couple?
Alyson: Well...
Kathie Lee: How do you forget that you've staked a vampire?
Alyson: Well, we don't Actually do it so...
Kathie Lee: Oh, it's like "virtual"?
Alyson: Yeah, with computers.
Kathie Lee: Computers.....ah!
Alyson: But, I think I've killed, like, two.
Kathie Lee: And how many has she [Buffy] killed?
Alyson: Oh, goodness!
Regis: Well, she's the Vampire Slayer.
Alyson: Like, thousands.
Regis: Well what would we do without Buffy?
*Aly and audience laughs*
Regis: That's the way I see it!
Alyson: We would be overrun with vampires! *laughs*
Regis: Have you been on all 4 years?
Alyson: Yes.
Regis: So, well...so you're hot kid!!
Alyson: *laughs*
Kathie Lee: Let's see her in "American Pie". C'mon Reg!
Regis: Okay, so tell us about American Pie.
Alyson: Okay, this scene is where Jason Bigg's character Jim, who's just been humiliated over the Internet, and none of the girls will talk to him. Except for me!
Regis: You see, I find that so sad when boys or girls...
Kathie lee: Start to use rumors...?
Regis:..can't find a date for the Prom.
Kathie Lee: Oh!
Regis: Why does that break me up!
Kathie Lee: They get over it!
Regis: Yeah, they do but *I* can't! Okay let's look at the clip. This is where Jason asks her to the Prom.
*the clip from American Pie where "Michelle" is asked to the Prom is aired*
Regis: Now is this one of the guys that has made the pledge?
Alyson: Yes, the pact. Yeah...
Regis: I don't want to ask how this turns out. Is it any good?
Alyson: *Laughs* Well, you shouldn't judge her by...there's more to her than just Band Camp.
Regis: Well, listen, he's no prize, this guy.
Kathie Lee: He's no picnic in the park.
Alyson: Awww..
Regis: Him, looking at you like you're just boring.
Alyson: Well, there's more to her. You just gotta see the film.
Regis: Well, American Pie opens tonight and Buffy is one Tuesdays. You've got the season finale coming up, right?
Alyson: The season finale was postponed and now it's airing on this Tuesday.
Regis: Is it hairraising?
Kathie Lee: Well, it's about a shooting in a school.
Alyson: No, no, no, no...
Kathie Lee: *looks confused*
Alyson: Well, our big finale, there's this big demon and...
Kathie Lee: I can't keep up with all this!!
Regis: *to Kathie Lee* I know. I thought it was that too. Okay, so it's this Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. Well, you've got a lot going on.
Kathie Lee: Good to meet you! *shakes Alysons hand*
Alyson: Thanks.
Regis: Thanks, Alyson.
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