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'The iconic role of Nadia'????


Saw that in her bio on here, and I couldn't help but laugh. Iconic? Seriously? She had what...five lines in the entire film? A majority of her job was standing there, looking pretty, and getting naked in a scene. Not to mention, that was mostly her job in acting prior to American Pie. Any actress who is known for a nude shower scene in which she is raped by a killer snowman shouldn't be taken so seriously.

Either way...she was never a good actress. Iconic is definitely over-shooting it just a bit

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I thought she was good in Scary Movie although her over the top sexiness might have made people not take that role seriously. She played a horrified beauty queen at one point and overage actress playing a teenager at other points.

Last week, I reactivated my Netflix account to catch up on all of the episodes of Breaking Bad. They have a mix of criminal drama with amounts of comedy situations related to crime (e.g Jessie Pinkman, Tuko, Tuko's uncle who can't talk) and stereo typical characters that are sometimes funny like Walker's lawyer Saul Goodman and his DEA brother in law, Hank Schrader. Shannon is from TX, Breaking Bad is set in Albuquerque New Mexico so I think she could pull off the looks department. Walter's lawyer said that he didn't need a wife, he needed a mole and I think Shannon would be awesome for this although having a mole would not be right for Walter, lol.

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There are plenty of other films she did.

Shannon was good in A Green Story and Thirteen Ghosts.


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As you are now, so once was I,
As I am now, so you will be,"

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Do you know what an icon is?

"a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something"


In this case, her part is an icon of the movie, American Pie. 'Has nothing to do with how big a part, how well she acted or anything. Everyone I know, remembers the "iconic role of "Nadia" in the movie American Pie (1999)".
It doesn't state that Shannon is the icon. She played the part (Nadia) of it.




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