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10 things you may not know about EuroTrip
It has been ten years since EuroTrip , riding the raunchy teen comedy revival of the late '90s and early naughts, burst into theaters and exposed an entire generation of teens to a beach full of dangling male genitalia. And even a decade later, those involved with the cult classic are still proud of it—every sex organ included.
At least, that was the vibe taken away from the audience Wednesday night in Hollywood, where cast members Scott Mechlowicz ("Scotty"), Jacob Pitts ("Cooper"), Michelle Trachtenberg ("Jenny"), Travis Wester ("Jamie") joined producers Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, and David Mandel and several others for a Q&A session. (The robot man even showed up—sans robot outfit.)
Here are some of the things that we—like Scotty—didn't know:
Matt Damon's cameo—as the band leader/guy who steals Scotty's girlfriend, played by Kristin Kreuk—came together because the producers knew him from their days at Harvard…and he was in Prague. In fact, many parts, including Jeffrey Tambor's, were filled because the actors were already shooting in Prague, where EuroTrip was filmed. "No one wanted to fly over and we didn't have the money to have anyone fly over," recalled Schaffer. "So we basically looked around and said, 'Who's filming in Prague?'" Luckily, Damon was in town shooting The Brothers Grimm. Not so lucky, however, was that the only night he was available was the shortest night of the summer, so "we literally had from 10:45 at night…and the sun would come up at 3:45," remembered Schaffer. "So we shot it in, like, 4.5 hours."
They had a lot of trouble casting Scotty. "It had gotten to the point, literally, where we were going to restaurants, staring at our waiters," said Mandel of the search for Scotty. Luckily, Mechlowicz, a UCLA student at the time, "rode in on a white horse" to save them from further stress over casting the all-important part. Meanwhile, Trachtenberg credited her physical comedy in her audition—which was the airplane scene where Jenny climbs over Cooper on her way to the bathroom—to her getting the job offer from the producers. "And I blew them," deadpanned Trachtenberg, who got several laughs from the crowd for her natural EuroTrip -style humor. Above all, though, producers said it was important to them at the time to cast real teenagers in the roles. "We didn't want 35-year-olds playing high school kids," said Schaffer.
Scotty is seen reading Jackie Collins' Sinners on the train—the same book his mother is reading back at home. The reason? "It was the only book we could clear [legally], so everyone was reading it," said Schaffer.
Despite all the political incorrectness in the film, there was one scene that was just too much for the studio, referred to by producers as "The Anne Frank sex scene." In the scene—never filmed but available in script form on the original DVD, they claim—Cooper finds a flyer for a sex club called "The Secret Room" and accidentally misidentifies the house of Anne Frank as the club. ("He asks somebody, 'Is this The Secret Room' and they go, 'Yes, it will change your life,'" Berg recalled.) Encountering a big line outside, Cooper assumes he has found the correct place, but instead of waiting, he goes through a backdoor. Once he discovers a small room with a small bed, he decides to get naked and wait for a sex worker—but soon after finds himself exposed in front of a tour group. (To make matters worse, Anne Frank's only living relative was a part of the tour group.) And as if that wasn't enough to horrify the studio, the scene also had Cooper reaching for a small mannequin—one guess as to whom it was modeled after—and covering his private parts with it, resulting in an unintended sexually explicit visual for the tour group. The producers wrote the Club Vandersexxx scene to replace this scene once it was nixed.
Fred Armisen's legendary cameo as the creepy foreigner came together very quickly. In fact, Mandel said the day after being cast, Armisen was on a plane to Prague and filmed the very next day. "We were lucky the suit fit," he said. Meanwhile, Wester praised Armisen for being "the only actor to ever make me fall out of a seat completely" while laughing. "It took four or five takes before I actually calmed down," he said.
The actor in the nickel scene (Miroslav Táborský) is "the Dustin Hoffman of the Czech Republic"—and resisted doing the scene. His hesitance partly came from not wanting to slap the man who was his boss in the movie, because he didn't want to slap someone with the back of his hand. "We had to go into a very long explanation of American prostitution and pimpdom and the origins of the pimp-slap and how it was the worst thing you could do to another human," said Mandel. "You did more directing to that guy than I've done in my entire career," joked Kevin Smith, who moderated the panel.
The original title was Ugly Americans . But the studio didn't want the movie with "ugly" in the title or a "sarcastic or ironic" title, said Schaffer. "We had a knock-down, drag-out fight with them," said Schaffer, "which is like having a fight with your parents when you're four because they can call it whenever they want." And they did.
A "Bert" is a unit of money. Unofficially, of course. But it became a running joke to the producers after they paid young actor Nial Iskhakov "about $175" to play the role of Bert, Scotty's brother in the film. "'Can we put a tree in that window?' 'Well, it will be six Berts,'" Schaffer recalled.
The nude beach scene originally had much less nudity in it. But once they started filming, they realized it took away from the comedy to have all the extras holding surfboards and other objects— Austin Powers -style—to cover their private parts. "We thought, 'Wouldn't it be funnier if it was just wall-to-wall penises?'" said Mandel. The extras likely didn't mind the change; according to Trachtenberg, there was a lack of shyness between takes, making for an awkward craft services environment.
You can, in part, thank Barney for the robot fight scene. The man inside the Barney suit was Mechlowicz's acting teacher when he was young. And "he had mad robot skills," said Mechlowicz, "so I picked it up early."
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Fans of "American Pie" and "Road Trip" should enjoy this outrageous comedy about a raucous jaunt to Europe. Scott Mechlowicz stars as a teen who heads for Berlin as soon as he learns his German pen pal is a buxom blonde. Chaos reigns as he and his three buddies make stops in London, Paris and Amsterdam. Michelle Trachtenberg, Jacob Pitts.
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EuroTrip: Looking Back at the Raunchy Comedy 20 Years Later
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There is the thought that films resonate more with us based on where we are in our lives at the time we first encounter them. Back in 2004, I thought EuroTrip was incredibly clever and funny, but figured it would age poorly and show its faults more on consecutive re-watches. That was absolutely true, yet I still find myself laughing at this movie, and it may have even been part of the inspiration I needed to import a British wife. For all of the ways this juvenile comedy can be torn apart, EuroTrip still has plenty of frequent flier miles to offer.
Twenty years or so ago, audiences were really into raunchy teen sex comedies, and EuroTrip was prepared to take the idea abroad. For most, the day we graduate high school is a glorious one, but for Scott Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz), it’s also the day his beautiful girlfriend Fiona (Kristin Kreuk) drops the pretense of their committed relationship and dumps him. If that weren’t bad enough, the life band at the party that night performs a song about all of the ways she’s been cheating on him, and he bungles his chance with the only other love interest in his life due to a simple mistranslation. Now, Scotty and his friend Cooper (Jacob Pitts) are going to Europe, where they’ll meet up with the twins Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester) in an attempt to find Mieke (Jessica Boehrs) and make things right. Obviously, it’s a tour de Force of awkward comedy.
Okay, no, it’s like the rest of this sub-genre, more interesting to those who prefer crude humor, vulgar situational gags, and some seriously unabashed nudity. The acting is serviceable, with it slipping in a few parts, and the best overall performances probably go to the twins, who aren’t the main characters and have incest as one of their biggest story points. There are, however, a lot of fun cameos.
Apparently, it IS about who you know. Jeff Schaffer is listed as the director of the film, but Alec Berg and David Mandel reportedly shared in those duties as well. All three men also wrote the film and reached back to their college chums and acquaintances they had made in the industry to secure some interesting surprises for guest roles in the film. Names like Lucy Lawless, Patrick Malahide, Diedrich Bader, and Fred Armisen all show up in the credits, while Jeffrey Tambor appears uncredited. But the two that viewers seem to remember the most are Vinnie Jones as the soccer hooligan and Matt Damon pretending to belt out the lyrics to Lustra’s “Scotty Doesn’t Know.” Damon still has people shouting that phrase at him randomly on the street, and why not? The song is iconic, being heard multiple times and in different versions during the movie. The actor also claims that the musical triumph was written by the brother of his college roommate, making the circle of weirdness around EuroTrip complete.
The unrated version of the film comes in at 92 minutes and there is a lot crammed into there, but not all of the pacing works. Scott’s trip also requires the group to make their way through several destinations around Europe, but the majority of the actual film was shot in Prague. This meant that several stand-in locations that were obviously not the real places had to be used, and a large amount of green screen was necessary to help complete the illusion. One of the advantages of filming in Europe seemed to be that the party scenes had real beer, resulting in several people on set being at least slightly intoxicated.
The original script went through several alterations. The initial title was Ugly Americans, and the producers all objected to the change, but at the end of the day, they had no leverage. EuroTrip stuck, supposedly in an attempt to remind people of Road Trip in hopes that some of its success might rub off on the company’s new project. On paper, many of the scenes were raunchier, extra offensive, had harsher language, and featured even more male and female nudity. There were also supposed to be more cameos, but you can’t convince everyone to spend their free time flying to Prague, which is why most of the actors were already there for other projects.
The only scene that was actually more toned down originally was the nude beach sequence, where they decided to simply go with “ wall-to-wall penises ” for greater laughs. This may have backfired, however, as many of the men opted not to get dressed in between takes, and according to Trachtenberg, the “lack of shyness” made things quite awkward. The two biggest changes were removing the scene intended to be at the Anne Frank House – which is in script form on the DVD – and replacing it with Cooper’s adventures at Club Vandersexxx, featuring Mrs. Lawless and her two assistants, Hans and Gruber, as well as the first ending, which they filmed, but was much more depressing.
EuroTrip is an unbalanced film that did not do well at the box office , finding some success after the theatrical release and becoming something more of a shining light for people who like this type of humor. The Frommers people didn’t even really like it , and that movie pimps out their guides the whole time. Now, it may be harder for the movie to pick up new fans, as some of its humor and lewd gags just haven’t aged well over the last two decades. Much of what they were trying to poke fun at (evidenced by the original title) feels awkward but sometimes borderlines on decent satire , but it’s hard to say if that was on accident or not. All three producers have worked on shows like Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, so it’s easy to see where their comedy roots come from. There are some genuinely hilarious moments in EuroTrip, though, and I can’t help but want to catch up with these characters again, but I certainly hope this isn’t how I act when traveling back overseas.
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Since Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer were all teens in the 1980s, they grew up watching the same kinds of movies. Sex comedies like Weird Science and Real Genius were wildly popular back then, and they were one of the things the trio bonded over when they first met at Harvard.
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After writing for The Harvard Lampoon , they began working in television, eventually landing in the Seinfeld writers’ room, where they wrote some of the most memorable episodes of the show’s final seasons . After Seinfeld ended, they transitioned into film, often working as script doctors to punch up comedies. But they wanted to direct their own movies, too. When it came to what kind of movies those would be, they went back to the sex comedies they’d watched as teens. Out of that came Ugly Americans , which would later be renamed EuroTrip in a very deliberate attempt by DreamWorks to trick the audience into thinking they were buying tickets to a Road Trip sequel.
But the ruse didn’t work. When EuroTrip debuted on February 20, 2004 it finished fifth at the box office, just behind the Ray Romano / Gene Hackman flop Welcome to Mooseport .
It was a gut punch for Berg, Mandel and Schaffer, but they all landed on their feet, working on Curb Your Enthusiasm afterwards. They’d go on to other hits too. For Berg, there was Silicon Valley and Barry ; for Mandel, there was Veep and White House Plumbers ; and for Schaffer, there was The League and Dave . But as they presided over the next phases of their careers, something was happening with their theatrical flop. EuroTrip was being viewed in basements late at night by the kids who were too young to see it in theaters, much the same way that Berg, Mandel and Schaffer had consumed their beloved 1980s sex comedies.
EuroTrip ’s cult status also grew thanks to the very specific drumbeat of “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” the song from the film about the hero’s ex-girlfriend cheating on him. Performed by the Boston-based rock band Lustra — and lip-synced by Matt Damon in the film — “Scotty Doesn’t Know” gradually became a hit, and in 2023, Rolling Stone ranked it number two on its list “Fake Bands, Real Songs: The 50 Best Tunes by Made-Up Musicians.”
While Berg, Mandel and Schaffer were always proud of the film, it’s been especially vindicating for them to see EuroTrip become a hit after their own studio hated it, critics were divided on it and audiences barely showed up to see it. So, here to take it all off and reveal everything about the film on its 20th anniversary, are Berg, Mandel and Schaffer.
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Before There Was ‘EuroTrip,’ There Was ‘Ugly Americans’
David Mandel, writer/producer/(uncredited)director of EuroTrip : In 2002, Jeff, Alec and I were doing a lot of movie rewrites. We were also getting invited to look at rough cuts where they’d already made the movie, and they were asking us, “How do we fix this?” So, we came to this conclusion: “Boy, comedy directors aren’t great, and it doesn’t seem to take a lot to be a comedy director. The bar is low — why not us?”
Then, we tried to, scientifically almost, write a movie that we thought we could sell and that was cheap enough where they’d let us direct it. Those were the parameters we constructed for ourselves.
Jeff Schaffer, writer/producer/director of EuroTrip : Conceptually, we wanted to make a movie that was like the movies we grew up watching.
Alec Berg, writer/producer/(uncredited)director of EuroTrip : You could have stopped after just “Conceptually, we wanted to make a movie.”
Schaffer: Yes, that’s true. But we wanted to make a movie where you’d steal your parents’ liquor — or your friends’ parents’ liquor — and go into the basement and watch a funny, R-rated sex comedy.
Mandel: There were also two other things that happened in the lead-up to us writing EuroTrip . One, there was a brief moment where they talked to us about writing the sequel to American Pie , and we pitched them going to Europe. No one listened, but that was in our brains somewhere. Second, we were doing a rewrite of a movie called Out Cold , which is a snowboarding movie. We did a one-week rewrite of it, and there was this hot tub scene we came up with. It made us laugh so hard that, at some point we said, “This is too good to give to Out Cold , we need to keep this and put it in our movie that doesn’t exist.”
Soon, we got to writing it while we were doing rewrites for The Cat in the Hat at Imagine. We did what we always do and gathered all the funny stories we’d ever heard from friends. They weren’t our stories because the three of us all graduated and became comedy writers, while our friends went to Europe and had a fun eurotrip of their own. What we had was their stories because, again, we didn’t have any stories of our own.
Berg: Every one of them had had a run-in with a creepy Italian guy on a train and got felt up. It was also about the iconic things someone might do while going to Europe, like a nude beach and going to Amsterdam and getting stoned, seeing the red light district. What are the European backpacking touchstones? We kind of reverse-engineered a movie out of that. You can tell by watching EuroTrip that this movie didn’t come out of some deep need to shed light on the human condition.
Mandel: I mean, I hate to say it, but it was very joke-sequence-driven. “What could we do in London?” “Let’s do soccer hooligans.” Jokes and cities were very interconnected. We weren’t going to do a city if we didn’t have a great joke, and we weren’t going to do some great joke if it didn’t fit in a city.
When it was finished, it went out into the world as a spec script, and it went out with our lawyers and representatives saying, “They want to make this.” As the bidding war heated up, because it was a hot spec script, it went to who gave us a path to production, which meant, in under a year, we would be making this movie. That was the entire goal of EuroTrip — for us to direct a movie. That was everything to us.
Schaffer: Also, as it was conceived and when it went out into the world, the movie was called Ugly Americans . It was never called EuroTrip . EuroTrip isn’t anything we would have called it in a million years. It became EuroTrip in post-production.
Mandel: A lot of studios went after it, including Ivan Reitman on behalf of DreamWorks.
Berg: This was Ivan Reitman , so we were very much in awe of him.
Mandel: Yes, but we went with DreamWorks and Ivan because we got our path to production. We got a really nice deal for us to write and direct, and more importantly, they had 12 months to put it into production or we got it back. That was huge.
That was June of 2002, and we were shooting by the following February in Prague.
Beautiful Americans, Finding the ‘EuroTrip’ Cast
Mandel: We cast Michelle Trachtenberg early on because she was the closest thing we had to a name. She’d already had a career.
Berg: She was just a pro.
Schaffer: Travis Wester as Jamie had a real cockeyed optimism to him. You could smash him down, and he kept getting back up. Jacob Pitts came in and read for Cooper, and he had such an off-kilter read. He made us laugh in ways that we didn’t expect.
We found Scott Mechlowicz a week before we were leaving for Prague. He got the part of Scott because he was handsome, he was fun and he was able to win some. You don’t want a soft center with a bunch of stuff just put upon him. You want him to be able to give as much shit to Cooper as Cooper is giving to him.
Mandel: As for Jessica Boehrs, who played Mieke, Scott’s love interest, we found her once we were overseas.
Schaffer: She was in a soap and had a music career. Once we saw her, it was done.
Also, we were shooting this in 2003 in the Czech Republic. There was a war going on and there was SARS, so people weren’t dying to fly out. We flew in Steve Hytner as the green fairy because we all worked with him as Bania on Seinfeld , but half the people that are in the movie are in it because they were shooting another movie in Prague. That’s how we got Lucy Lawless and, most notably, Matt Damon.
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Czech Your Bags: Filming in Prague
Berg: Every single thing in the entire movie, except for the nude beach, was shot in Prague, or within an hour of Prague.
Schaffer: Every extra is a Czech extra, including for the scenes in America. Bert, Scott’s younger brother, is from Uzbekistan.
Berg: When you hire an American actor, they work under SAG rules. So if you hire an American actor to work in Europe, you have to pay them for every day that they’re traveling. You also have to pay for first-class travel and their hotel. In other words, to get somebody to come from America to deliver one line , it’s like $20,000.
For a while, we had this running joke about the kid who played Bert. We paid him like $150 to be in the movie. So as a joke between us, a “Bert” was a unit of currency. “How many Berts will it take to put a sign on that wall?” “Oh, that’s six Berts. I don’t think we can afford that.”
Schaffer: Another thing that’s worth mentioning is that, even though I’m credited as the director, I’m not the director. All three of us are the director. What happened was, the Directors Guild gets super uppity about multiple people directing, and they just wouldn’t let us have it. Instead, we had a semi-Buddhist Czech P.A. with a long rat tail named Jaroslav Jablonský pick our names out of a hat. We filmed it and put it on the DVD; it’s called “How to Pick a Director.”
The Sweet Sounds of ‘Scotty Doesn’t Know’
Mandel: Even for the scene set at a Ohio high school graduation party, we shot in Prague. We must have scouted a million houses before we found that house. It was the only house in Prague with a backyard.
Schaffer: For that party, we had to fly in red Solo cups. They don’t exist in Europe.
Berg: We had a mostly Czech crew, and we sometimes struggled with language barriers. A great example happened at that party scene. We found the right American-looking house, and we made it look exactly like an American high school party. Then, on the day of shooting, we see the stage where the band plays, and there’s this giant banner that reads, “Congratulation.”
Mandel: Of course, the party scene is notable for including “Scotty Doesn’t Know,” which I think works so well because it’s truly worked into the script. It’s not just a song in the movie, it’s in there.
Schaffer: It’s a narrative engine. Plus, the surprise reveal that it’s Matt Damon doing it is so good. EuroTrip is such a surprising thing on his resume. It’s like if Einstein was also the pledge master of his fraternity.
Mandel: He’s done other comedy things now, but at the time, he was exclusively working with incredible directors.
Schaffer: We got him because he was in Prague shooting The Brothers Grimm , and we said, “Hey, do you want to do this?” And he said, “Yeah, I’ll do it.”
When I saw Matt once later on, he said, “I was Ryan in Saving Private Ryan . I was Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley . But I walk down the street and people go, ‘Scotty doesn’t know!’” He also said, “It was one of the only movies that my 17-year-old daughter goes, ‘Yeah, that was pretty cool.’”
It’s amazing how that scene and that song has endured. Shoutout to Lustra who wrote a great song. We all helped with the lyrics, but the song is catchy as hell. We’ve even got gold records for it.
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Vinnie Jones and the Double-Decker Bus
Berg: Vinnie Jones was one of the few names we got into the movie. He cost as much as 20 other people.
Schaffer: He was over 40 Berts.
Berg: He was hundreds of Berts. Well worth it though. He was super game. He’s a professional soccer player who is unbelievably associated with certain teams, but we were making him talk about how Manchester United was the best team ever. He was like, “This is hard for me, guys.” It’d be like hiring Derek Jeter to talk about how great the Red Sox are.
Schaffer: That bar we filmed at was just a bar in Prague. We called it “The Feisty Goat.” Again, we had a lot of issues with language barriers. So, we showed up to the location, and “The Feisty Goat” is misspelled as “The Fiesty Goat.” We kept blaming the Czech art department for it. Finally, someone said, “It’s that way in the script.” Turns out, we’d misspelled feisty the whole time.
The Robot Fight
Mandel: At one point, there was this idea that, in each city, we’d somehow cast real actors and comedy people from those cities. That plan was a disaster. Either everybody stunk, or in the case of the French, they were just offended and didn’t want to play the role.
Berg: We, as Americans, have these conceits of what Italian people are like, what French people are like, what German people are like. But Italian people, French people and German people don’t necessarily feel that same way about themselves.
Mandel: Ultimately, the French robot guy was played by J.P. Manoux from the Groundlings, and the Italian guy is Fred Armisen from SNL . We did end up with a few foreign stars, just not as many as we once thought.
As for the scene in Paris, the robot fight, that was one of the sequences of the movie that we’d actually bothered to storyboard because we had all these ideas about it. Then, of course, you get there and, to do what we storyboarded, it would be like, 11 setups. It was too much. Fortunately, it helped that J.P. Manoux already came with his own bag of tricks, and Scott had taken a mime class. I think Scott had been trained by the guy who played Barney. That saved us.
Crans sur Mer: The Nude Beach
Mandel: The Crans sur Mer train station was day one of EuroTrip shooting. It’s not a particularly significant scene, but it was momentous because we were going to be judged on the quality of those dailies by DreamWorks, as there were a few DreamWorks executives who came for the first few days of shooting. We did that shot with Cooper popping up into frame when he hears “nude beach.” That got a laugh, and it was a huge sigh of relief for us.
Berg: The nude beach itself was filmed in Rostock in former East Germany, very close to where Wernher von Braun’s rocket factory was.
Mandel: We got to that set still trying to figure out what we were going to do with the nudity. I remember us making a conscious decision that we weren’t going to do the Mike Myers version. We weren’t going to hide everybody with umbrellas and frisbees. I feel like it was on the beach where we had a discussion saying, “We’ve seen that joke; it’s bullshit. Let’s go for it. Let’s just have a lot of naked guys with penises flapping at you.” We’d never seen that anywhere.
Schaffer: I can’t believe all those genitals weren’t burnt to a crisp by the sun. You had a whole bunch of Nordic wangs and a long summer day. Those guys were troopers.
The Unused Anne Frank Scene
Schaffer: In the spec script, in Amsterdam, there was a different scene before the sex stuff with Lucy Lawless and the flűggåənk∂€čhiœβøl∫ên. Originally, Cooper is going out to look for a sex club, and he gets a flyer for a place called “The Secret Room.” He’s very excited to go to the secret room, and he’s looking around for it. He sees a line of people for this house, and he asks, “Is this the secret room?”
Mandel: People are also walking out of it, shaking and crying, and he asks them, “Were you in the secret room?” And they said, “Yes,” and he thinks this sounds incredible.
Schaffer: He goes in, and we tilt up and realize it’s the Anne Frank museum. He goes up, and there’s no one in the secret room except a mannequin of a girl. He figures the rest of the people will come soon, so he strips and waits. Then he realizes where he is, and some relatives of Anne Frank—
Mandel: Hold on. It was Tessa Frank, Anne Frank’s only living relative. It was a 100-year-old woman being pushed in a wheelchair.
Schaffer: He realizes “Oh shit,” and he doesn’t have any clothes on. He grabs the only thing he can to cover his genitals, which is that mannequin. So, when the door opens, it looks like he’s fucking Anne Frank from behind, and we just cut to police putting him back on the train.
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Berg: When DreamWorks bought the movie, that scene was this elephant in the room. We didn’t want to say anything or ask about it, and they hadn’t said anything about it. So we just kept proceeding as though it was okay. We actually got a couple of months down the road, and finally, because it’s DreamWorks, Spielberg read the script. He called us and said, “Guys, I think it’s really funny. I loved it. I have one note, and I’m sorry, but you have to cut the Anne Frank thing. I actually thought it was funny. I laughed. But, guys, my name is literally on that museum.” He was actually one of its biggest donors.
Schaffer: We heard him out and hung up. Then we said, “Fuck no!” We fought tooth-and-nail for it. At one point, between us, we flirted with taking it to New Line just to save this joke.
Berg: Ultimately, though, New Line said “no,” and we were like, “Fuck!” I remember Ivan Reitman telling us, “You’re out of your fucking minds. You have a greenlit movie here that they’re going to let you guys direct. You don’t know what the fuck you’re doing!”
Mandel: However, we fought to get our original script included on the DVD. Remember how they used to include scripts as a DVD extra you can read on the screen? We fought for that.
Schaffer: No, we just gave them that script because we knew that no one was ever going to read it.
The Little Girl Peeing in the Street
Berg: For Bratislava, we found this old Soviet airbase an hour outside of Prague. When the wall fell, they told 25,000 people to pack their shit, and they airlifted them all back to the Soviet Union. They abandoned this massive tract of buildings.
Schaffer: When we scouted it, it looked like shit — just like we wanted.
Berg: There was graffiti and broken windows. It was perfect.
Schaffer: Then, we got there on the day, and it was spotless. They told us, “We cleaned it up!” We were like, “What!?!? No!”
Berg: We spent a lot of money putting those apartments back to the way they were before they cleaned it up.
Mandel: There was a female production assistant from Bratislava who took great offense at the Bratislava depiction in the film. I have to say, I’m especially fond of the little girl that he waves to and she pees in the street. Was that in the final cut? I forget.
Berg: It’s in the end credits. I remember that was a particular lightning rod where the DreamWorks people were like, “You’ve got to get that fucking thing out of the movie. We will not have it. So, us, being contrarian assholes, said, “We’ll cut it,” then we put it in the end credits.
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The Hitler Kid
Schaffer: I got to teach a four-year-old how to goose step. In the end credits, you can see me teaching him that, getting him a first-class ticket to hell.
Mandel: That’s Jeff pretending like he’s never goose-stepped before.
Schaffer: Look, if you’re going to do it, you do it right.
Berg: Thank God we were in Prague, because if we were in Germany, no one would have been comfortable shooting that.
The Vatican
Schaffer: We should also talk about how there was a different ending at the Vatican than what ended up in the movie. In our original ending, when Scott comes down from the Vatican, he tells Mieke, “I’m here.” She says, “Who are you?” But when we did our screening, it was a big energy downer.
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Berg: The math of the joke was very appealing to us. We thought it would be funny if he does all this, and she goes, “What?” Then when we screened it, the audience was like, “That sucks.”
Mandel: It literally killed the movie. She was still going to show up at the very end at his dorm, but that took like 20 minutes.
Schaffer: So we shot a different ending with them having sex in the confessional during reshoots.
Mandel: A lesson from that scene is something I still talk about with writers. I call it “The Humor of Disappointment.” It’s comedy writers getting too smart for their own good and saying, “You know how, in every movie, the guy and the girl get together in the end? Wouldn’t it be great if you watch a two-hour movie, and nobody gets together?” It’s basically giving the finger to the audience. It never works.
Berg: Sometimes the classics are classics for a reason. Boy gets girl affirming. Give them what they want.
Coming Back to America
Mandel: As we started editing the movie, it became apparent that the studio that made our movie fucking hated it. We’re not talking about them not liking this joke or that joke, we’re talking about this unfortunate sense that it was beneath them.
Berg: They thought this was a barnacle on the ass of their studio. Mike De Luca, who bought EuroTrip , was brought on to expand the scope of DreamWorks, but once he did that, there was this sense that he let in a bunch of derelicts behind their walls. DreamWorks didn’t like it.
Mandel: Things just got worse and worse throughout post-production. The definitive moment for me was when I said to Terry Press of DreamWorks, “Why did you make this movie?” and she said, “I don’t know.”
Schaffer: Ivan even tried to take the movie away from us and cut a PG-13 version of it.
Mandel: We watched that version once with Ivan, and it was so terrible that, when it ended, even he said, “Nevermind.”
Berg: I remember he said, “I mean, it was a valiant effort, right?”
Schaffer: He was not in our corner.
Mandel: He was in our corner at the beginning. He gave great comedy notes and directing notes in pre-production. But from the moment we started shooting, it felt like he wanted to kick us out of the directing chair and direct it himself. As for the PG-13 cut, that wasn’t a conversation with us. We walked in one day, and he was just doing it. It really sucked.
Berg: He was in a precarious position. His company had a deal at DreamWorks, and for him to curry favor, he had to get along with them. If he had to throw us under the bus to do that, there were places where I think he did that.
Schaffer: In post, the title became a recurring issue too. The basic thing when we came back from shooting was, “Let’s try to trick people into thinking this is a Road Trip sequel.”
Mandel: At one point, they were even talking about having Tom Green do a trailer for EuroTrip where he says, “Remember my friends from Road Trip ? These are my new friends who go to Europe!”
Berg: I remember this meeting with the DreamWorks marketing people telling us what Road Trip ’s opening box office was, what their eventual box office was, how many units of home video they shipped. They just kept talking about how much Road Trip was such a great piece of business for them. And we’re like, “Okay, what does that have to do with us?”
Basically, they thought, “If we can trick the audience into thinking this is a sequel to Road Trip , and if we can get 70 percent of the audience that movie had, that’s a win.” We quickly realized, “Oh, we’re fucked.”
Mandel: At some point, they scheduled a final test screening, and they more or less told us that, if we didn’t get above an 85 audience score, it wasn’t going to get released. We knew when they were going to test it, so we got one of the flyers recruiting the audience. We Xeroxed it and gave it to anyone we knew who was younger than us and wasn’t in the business. We gave it to a shitload of young Harvard Lampoon comedy writers who had recently moved out to L.A. and anybody else we knew who was young and wasn’t a comedy writer, an agent or a lawyer. We packed the audience with people that we knew and told some of the men to fill out that they were women. We told them “Don’t give it 100, but give it 90s and 95s.” After the screening, we went to some restaurant. They tallied it up, and we got over that 85. I remember the guy saying, “And we moved up in women, too!”
There was just one thing left: the name. They said, “We will release this movie, but you must change the title.” We reluctantly went, “Fine, call it EuroTrip ,” which was a title cooked up in a petri dish by DreamWorks marketing. The irony is, Todd Phillips got pissed at us for the title. As if we thought it was the greatest idea in the world. We got it from both ends.
There are probably a million things, in hindsight, that I wish we could fix about EuroTrip , but number one above everything else is, I wish it was called Ugly Americans .
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The End of the Road
Mandel: But hey, the marketing worked. We came in third that weekend behind the 11th week of 50 First Dates and Welcome to Mooseport .
Berg: And there was that Lindsay Lohan movie.
Mandel: We were fourth? I thought we beat them and that Meg Ryan boxing movie.
Berg: I feel like we beat Mooseport.
Mandel: No, we lost to Mooseport . I will stake my reputation on that!
Berg: I’m going to look it up…
Schaffer: Needless to say, it was a race to the bottom.
Berg: Okay, I just pulled it up. Number one that weekend was 50 First Dates . Number two was Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen . Number three was the third week of Miracle .
Mandel: Holy shit.
Berg: Number four, Welcome to Mooseport .
Mandel: Holy shit. This is worse than I remembered.
Berg: Number five, EuroTrip . To our credit, we did beat the living shit out of the Meg Ryan boxing movie, Against the Ropes .
Mandel: I do remember that, on that Friday, by 10 a.m., we were dead in the water. It was deflating because it was over so quickly. When we were fighting with DreamWorks and losing, at least we were fighting. But then, on Friday morning, to be dead on arrival, it was deflating.
Berg: It was a gut-punch. When someone calls you and says to you the last two years of your life were kind of wasted, that’s brutal.
On the Road Again: ‘EuroTrip’ Finds Its Audience
Mandel: In the aftermath of EuroTrip , we tried to get other directing gigs, and people were saying things to us like, “Maybe you’ll direct a sample scene,” as if we’d never even made the movie. In a great way, it’s how we ended up at Curb Your Enthusiasm . Had EuroTrip never bombed, we never would have gone to Larry, who was looking for people to bounce ideas off of for Curb .
So we went away very quickly, but it was really “Scotty Doesn’t Know” that kept the movie going. Obviously, there was the DVD, where all the people who were too young to see it in theaters could now watch it. But it was “Scotty Doesn’t Know” that I heard was being played at proms by live bands and DJs. And now, on social media, “Scotty Doesn’t Know” and a handful of shots from EuroTrip are now memes.
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Schaffer: That and “Mi Scuzi” from Fred Armisen.
Berg: And there’s “Mail Motherfucker.” That’s a drop used on Howard Stern. They still use it all the time, whenever he’s reading email from listeners.
Berg: People call EuroTrip a “cult hit,” but you don’t set out to make a cult hit. You set out to make a blockbuster. Below that there’s “kind of a hit,” then there’s “sort of okay,” then there’s “cult hit,” followed by “total bomb.” A cult hit is just one step above a total bomb, but it has to be a total bomb first for that to happen. It takes a while for the soup to cure and become a cult hit.
Schaffer: The interesting thing is, because it took that journey, the generation that watched it, watched it in their basements, like the movies we watched.
Mandel: Sure, we would have liked the giant blockbuster, but at this point, I’ll take it.
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Where is Harry Maguire? Why Man Utd star isn't at Euro 2024 after England snub
Harry Maguire says that he is "absolutely gutted" not to be making the trip to Germany for the Euros, having been almost ever-present at international competitions under England boss Gareth Southgate
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Harry Maguire has been left out of Gareth Southgate's Euro 2024 squad after failing to recover from a calf injury in time.
31-year-old Maguire has been almost ever-present in Southgate's England squad since the player-turned-manager took the reigns back in 2016, having appeared at the World Cup in 2022 and 2018, as well as the Euro side which made the finals in 2021 (after the 2020 competition was postponed through Covid). The Manchester United centre-half has made 63 appearances for his country at senior level so far and is "absolutely gutted" to be missing this summer's tournament in Germany.
A muscle issue which struck during training with the Red Devils in April has left Maguire sidelined ever since, meaning he missed United's FA Cup final victory over Manchester City in May. And prolonged problems mean that the faithful defender would not be available for selection as the tournament gets underway this week.
Addressing his absence, Maguire said: "I am devastated not to have been selected to play for England at the Euros this summer. Despite my best efforts, I have not been able to overcome an injury to my calf. Maybe I pushed myself too hard, to try and make it.
"Simply, I am absolutely gutted. For me, representing England is the highest honour. It means everything to me. If I can’t help the team as a player, I will support them as a fan – along with the rest of the country. Go and win it, boys. Next, I will return to the supervision of the Manchester United medical team in order to prepare for next season."
Maguire joined a list of seven players who have been cut from Southgate's squad for the Euros, alongside Jarrad Branthwaite, Curtis Jones, Jack Grealish and James Maddison. Speaking on his selections for the tournament, Southgate said: " Harry has made some progress but it has been complicated and we definitely wouldn't have had him in the group stages.
"There were too many hurdles to get through without really being clear of where we might get to. Given that we haven't got a clean bill of health across the rest of the backline as well, the decision became that we needed cover and players that are fit and ready to go from the start.
"It was another really difficult call. You know how I feel about Harry Maguire and what he has done for England and what he has done for me as a manager." Maguire enjoyed a decent 2023/24 campaign with Manchester United - making 31 appearances across all competitions. He would help Erik Ten Hag's side reach the FA Cup final against bitter rivals in Manchester City, and while United would run out 2-1 winners Maguire would be absent due to his aforementioned injury.
Maguire was also a part of the Euro 2020 England squad which would make it all the way to the final of the tournament, scoring in a 4-0 quarter-final victory over Ukraine and starting in the final against Italy. The game would end in penalties after a 1-1 scoreline could not be separated.
And while Maguire would bury his spot-kick against Gianluigi Donnarumma, the Three Lions were sent home empty-handed after Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka missed their high-pressure one-on-ones. Germany and Scotland kick off Euro 2024 at 7pm on Friday from the Allianz Arena. England's first game comes against Serbia at 8pm on Sunday (June 16), with Denmark and Slovenia also in their group.
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Want a Euro road trip this summer? Join us on this Ontario adventure
Discover a different place with a european name right here in southwestern ontario.
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Europe is far away and expensive. But you still want to go, right? How about a compromise (that you can still write home about).
Get in the car and travel to some of the finest southwestern Ontario cities, towns and villages named after their bigger European counterparts. There are quite a few, including Vienna, Copenhagen, Brussels and Paris.
This summer, join CBC London's Andrew Brown as he travels to uncover their charms. We're calling it the Great Ontario Euro Road Trip . Up first is one that's obvious and definitely full of European edge, art and cuisine: London!
Special thanks to our tour guide, James Kingsley, editor at The Localist, for these highlights.
If there's one thing the "other" London has, it's sculptures and monuments. London, Ont., has unique art pieces as well, said Kingsley, that you won't want to miss on this road trip stop.
White Oaks Mall isn't an obvious place for sculpture, but if you're heading in from the Wellington Street entrance, look to your right. The mall developer's son was an artist who was commissioned to put his work outside of those doors.
The Forks of the Thames area is also a hotbed of public art. There's a tribute to a group of martyrs who spent time in Australia where they were sent to a penal colony. There's the fountain, of course, and over at Museum London, the Rhino. You might also cross the road to the Superior Court of Justice to get comfy on what Kingsley calls "the concrete pillows," also known as Walter Redinger's Xabis.
Another sculpture-like hotspot is the labyrinth at Brescia University College. It's known a meditative place and some Londoners have spent their careers studying and appreciating what a walk through a labyrinth can do for wellbeing.
Strip malls
Kingsley is a big fan of a good strip mall, and London, Ont., has quite a few. "Who doesn't love them?" he asked. His top choice on this Euro road trip is on Wharncliffe Road, south of Horton Street.
This strip mall, at 169 Wharncliffe, showcases a lot of what London offers, including great food, cultural diversity, independent businesses and craft beer.
"Where else are you going to find pizza? Thanks Piero's! You got Storm Stayed Brewery. You got a beauty studio, an old-fashioned neighbourhood convenience store. Plus you've got Mandi Guys with their amazing chicken on rice. There's also a new sweet shop, and the family running it has been sharing a recipe since 1913."
Kingsley points out that The Coves are right behind the strip mall, and are an excellent place for a hike.
Nothing says London like a double decker bus tour. Remove the top seats of the bus, changed the colour from red to blue and white, and this Ontario city is still prime for sightseeing!
Kingsley suggests doing a "four corners" of Londontour starting from downtown.
Head west on a London Transit bus going to Kains Woods. Get off at stop 2524. There you can wander through the neighbourhood for half a kilometre, before stepping into Kains Woods.
"It's about a six kilometre hike along the river. Beautiful bald eagles, herons, lots of great things to see," Kingsley said.
Head east next on route 3. Get off at stop 878. There you'll find East Park, a summer mainstay in London, and one that's recently updated many of the water park attractions.
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Head north, on the bus up Richmond Street. If you take it to the end, you'll be at Masonville Mall, so get off a little early at stop 1477. Walk over to Gibbons Park for a swim, and don't miss what Londoners call the Banana Kingdom .
Head south, on one of the many buses going down Wellington Road South. Get off at White Oaks Mall. Kingsley said this neighbourhood was voted number one when The Localist did a best of London neighbourhoods. He says once you leave the mall area, there's a lot going on.
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How viral Netherlands ‘Left Right’ song took Euro 2024 by storm as England look to put an end to Dutch ‘Carnival dance’
- Emillia Hawkins , Sports Reporter
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GERMANY has been flooded with the colour orange in recent weeks.
That's because thousands of Dutch fans have made the short trip over from Netherlands for Euro 2024.
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Ronald Koeman and his players have enjoyed a successful tournament so far, reaching the semi-finals with three wins from five.
And their fans have been there every step of the way, taking Germany by storm.
Oranje supporters went viral for an iconic carnival dance when they arrived.
It involves a large group of fans holding each other's shoulders while jumping from left to right in unison.
They dance to a song called Links Rechts - which translates to 'Left Right' in English - by Snollebollekes, a Dutch party act.
It wasn't a huge hit when it was first released in 2015 but now racks up several streams during every carnival and throughout major football tournaments.
Netherlands face England in the Euro 2024 semi-finals on Wednesday.
The winner will face either Spain or France in the final.
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EURO 2024 has something for everyone from stunning goals, thrilling matches... and the continent's biggest hunks, writes Jack Figg .
Several stars have lit up the group stages with their skills on the pitch - but others are also catching the eye for their looks.
But who is the sexiest?
Thankfully AI boffins have carried out an analysis on the facial attractiveness of all players at the tournament.
And it's bad news for Gareth Southgate's Three Lions who are the fourth UGLIEST in the competition - one place below Scotland.
In fact it's England's group rivals Serbia who have fans swooning the most - boasting an average score of 77.90/100 with defender Strahinja Pavlovic deemed their most attractive.
While Turkey defender Mert Muldur has been ranked as the tournament's BEST-LOOKING player.
But who is England's sexiest star, and who makes the Euros' hunkiest XI? Read our full story .
Discussing Wednesday's match, manager Koeman said: "For the whole nation it is something special.
"We are a small nation and to be part of the semi-finals with England, France and Spain we are really proud to get the opportunity.
"If you win the match that always gives a good feeling.
"We need to recover, like England. It is not a physical difference between them and us. We played on the same day, we need to travel like them. It is not the physical [aspect] that will decide the result."
England's Harry Kane dilemma laid bare as stats show MAJOR problem before Holland clash
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GARETH SOUTHGATE has a Harry Kane dilemma ahead of the Euro 2024 semi-final, writes Kealan Hughes.
England face the Netherlands on Wednesday night as they bid to reach back-to-back Euros finals with their captain the subject of huge scrutiny.
Kane, 30, was taken off in extra-time against Switzerland after a lacklustre performance which saw the striker barely involved in play.
In 109 minutes, he completed just EIGHT passes - only one of which was in the final third.
Kane also made just four touches in the opposition penalty box, with critics lamenting his failure to get into the area to get on the end of one of Bukayo Saka's many crosses.
Alan Shearer has advised Kane to do his work in the box rather than dropping back.
In fact his average position against Switzerland was DEEPER than wing-backs Saka and Kieran Trippier.
That might be understandable, with the pair bombing on to provide width.
But Kane was also, on average BEHIND Jude Bellingham , Phil Foden and even holding midfielders Kobbie Mainoo and Declan Rice.
Read SunSport's analysis on Southgate's Kane dilemma in full.
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England to face Spain in Euro 2024 final live on BBC
England will face Spain in Sunday's Euro 2024 final in Berlin after beating the Netherlands 2-1 in the semi-final.
The game, with a 20:00 BST kick-off, will be shown live on BBC One and the iPlayer, with commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live and live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.
The Three Lions are hoping to go one step further than at Euro 2020 when they lost the final on penalties to Italy.
But in their way are the best team at Euro 2024 so far, three-time champions Spain.
What is England's record against Spain?
This will be England's third match against Spain at a European Championship - and the Three Lions triumphed in the previous two.
In the 1980 group stages, England beat Spain 2-1 in Naples - although both sides went out.
And in 1996 the sides met in the last 16 at Wembley, with England winning on penalties after a goalless draw.
Their only other meeting at a major tournament was the 1950 World Cup, with Spain winning 1-0 in a group game in Rio de Janeiro.
England did win the most recent tie, a 3-2 victory in Seville in the 2018 Nations League, but only won two of their 10 meetings before that (excluding penalties).
Spain's tough run, doing it in style
While England were perceived to be in the 'easy half' of the Euro 2024 draw, Spain's route to the final could not have been more difficult.
In the group stage, they beat 2018 World Cup semi-finalists Croatia and defending European champions Italy.
Then in the quarter-finals they beat hosts Germany - who were arguably the second-best team in the Euros - and in the semi-finals eliminated 2018 world champions France.
Not only that but they have won all six games without the need for penalties. No team have managed that in one European Championship before.
They are also the top scorers in the tournament with 13 goals.
Spain also have history in the Euros, winning it in 1964, 2008 and 2012. They are bidding to become the first nation to win it four times.
Spain have the tournament's star
If Spain win, this tournament is likely to go down in history as the introduction of Lamine Yamal - in the way Pele took the 1958 World Cup by storm.
The 16-year-old Barcelona player became the youngest European Championship player ever when he started their opening game against Croatia.
In the semi-final his stunning effort into the top scorer made him the youngest goalscorer at a Euros or World Cup, breaking Pele's record. He also broke Pele's record of the youngest player in a semi-final in either tournament.
Not only has he been playing - and scored one of the goals of the tournament - but statistically he has generally been one of the best players too, with three assists and 13 chances created.
Yamal plays on the right wing and on the left has been one of the tournament's other stars, Athletic Bilbao's Nico Williams, who is only 21 himself.
The pair, who have become close friends, celebrate birthdays in the two days leading up to the final.
Luis de la Fuente's side also have the current leader in the Golden Boot race: Leipzig midfielder Dani Olmo. Despite only starting two games he has scored three goals - level with four other players - but his two assists are the tie-breaker.
Another contender for the player of the tournament is Spain's Manchester City defensive midfielder Rodri.
The 28-year-old, who was born on the day England knocked Spain out of Euro '96, has only lost one of his past 79 games for club and country.
What do the BBC pundits say about Spain?
Former England striker Alan Shearer: "They've got everything you need to be successful and that's the reason they've won every single game at this tournament."
Chris Sutton: "It is hard to see anybody touching them, they seem to be on a different level to anybody else in this tournament."
Micah Richards: "The worries I had about this Spanish team, they answered them against France - how they can adapt to situations and when you have pace on the wings you always have a chance. They look really balanced and I think they are favourites."
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Cristiano Ronaldo and the Problem With Too Much Fame
The soccer superstar’s trip to Euro 2024 has been marked by pitch invaders and uninspiring performances. As fans try to get close, his team can’t seem to let go.
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As far as the authorities in Gelsenkirchen were concerned, every precaution had been taken. Extra stewards patrolled the perimeter of the field at the Arena AufSchalke. Plainclothes security staff members were in the stands. And two imposing security guards stood at the edge of the tunnel that led to the locker rooms.
And yet even that was not enough. As Portugal’s players trudged to the dressing room after their defeat to Georgia last week, a fan circumvented the additional layers of security by hurling himself over the top of the tunnel and jumping directly into the path of Cristiano Ronaldo .
Rather than coming face-to-face with his hero, though, the interloper botched his landing and fell down a set of stairs. The point, though, had been made. The lure of Ronaldo is such that, no matter what the stadium authorities or the security services do, it is ultimately not possible to stop people from trying to take a selfie with him.
Ronaldo’s fame, at this stage, cannot really be overstated. Now 39, he has, for 20 years, been one of the two finest soccer players of his generation: a breaker of innumerable records, a serial champion, a multiple winner of the Ballon d’Or as the world’s best player.
That status has started to wane in recent years as the clock ticks on his career, but it has had little impact on his broader footprint. He remains a walking billboard. His portfolio of endorsements includes high fashion ( Louis Vuitton ), heavy industry ( Egyptian Steel ) and cryptocurrency ( Binance ).
His image has been used to sell products as diverse as luxury watches, nutritional supplements and Japanese facial muscle toners . Saudi Arabia is currently trying to grow an entire top-level soccer league in the light of his supernova. He is, though, more than a brand; he is a particular kind of aspiration, a blend of wealth, success and a really great skin care routine, a high-performance podcast rendered in perfect flesh.
By one of the metrics that modern culture has decreed to be most meaningful — the number of followers you have on Instagram — Ronaldo has a reasonable claim to being the most famous human in existence. He has 633 million followers, twice as many as Beyoncé. Put another way, if Cristiano Ronaldo’s Instagram were a country, it would be the third-largest in the world.
Indeed, such is his celebrity that, during the first three weeks of Euro 2024, it has started to present everyone involved with a headache.
Most immediately, it is a security issue: All but one of Portugal’s four games at the tournament have been interrupted by one or more fans trying to enter the field to take a selfie with Ronaldo.
After the first two pitch invaders made it onto the field during Portugal’s opening game, the Portuguese soccer federation wrote to UEFA, European soccer’s governing body. The letter was polite, and written in a way that seemed to acknowledge that the combination of social media and Ronaldo’s celebrity was new territory for soccer, but it asked that additional security measures be taken.
After Portugal’s second game — against Turkey, when a half-dozen fans entered the field — Portugal’s coach, Roberto Martínez, admitted that it was becoming a “concern” after one of his other stars was knocked to the ground by a steward chasing a man making a beeline for Ronaldo.
The matter has been discussed at UEFA’s daily operational meetings, and Germany, the tournament’s host, has been fined more than $21,000 already for failing to keep its fields secure. Quite how much more can be done, though, is unclear. “It is really difficult once they are on the field,” said Tom Richmond, founder of Security and Safety Solutions, a firm that provides both of those things to soccer teams and players. “The stewards are all on minimum wage; they are not really a barrier to anyone who wants to get on the field.”
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But there is a growing feeling that Ronaldo’s fame might be a sporting problem, too. Portugal might have reached the quarterfinals — it will play France on Friday in Hamburg — but its performances have largely been uninspiring. It beat the Czech Republic in its opener only thanks to a stoppage-time goal. It lost its final group game to Georgia, the lowest-ranked team in the tournament. It needed a penalty-kick shootout to overcome Slovenia in the round of 16.
There is a common thread between all of those games: the perfectly toned, immaculately coiffured superstar fending off selfie-hunting fans. Ronaldo is the only outfield player to have started all of Portugal’s games. He has yet to score a goal. His most notable contribution so far was to miss an extra-time penalty against Slovenia, a failure that led to him breaking down in tears.
In many ways, though, his performances have not been any great surprise. Ronaldo has spent much of the last two seasons playing in Saudi Arabia’s revamped league. He has not played in the Champions League, the highest form of club soccer, since 2022.
His international career seemed to have drawn to a natural close during the World Cup, 18 months ago, when he was dropped from the starting lineup for a game against Switzerland. He had scored only once in the tournament at that point, from the penalty spot. His replacement, the striker Gonçalo Ramos, duly scored three times in a little more than an hour. The page, it seemed, had been turned.
Martínez, though, evidently feels differently. Hired after the World Cup, he has been resolute in his defense of Ronaldo during this tournament. The striker’s presence, Martínez has made plain, is both nonnegotiable and “on merit,” as he put it last month. Even after the game against Slovenia, Martínez was quick to proclaim how “proud” he was of his aging star.
While there are others willing to put the other side of the argument — to suggest, delicately, that all of those cellphone-wielding fans are seeking a photo with someone who, like them, probably shouldn’t be on the field — it is not an easy position to take.
“When someone knocks at the door, you don’t ask who they were, you ask who they are,” the Portuguese journalist and broadcaster, Sofia Oliveira, said on CNN Portugal after the game against Slovenia. All of her studio colleagues knew it, she said, but they did not seem especially willing to say it out loud.
The footage spread immediately. The reaction was, in part, predictably vitriolic. “Questioning his value is always difficult, because we are talking about one of the best players of all time,” Ms. Oliveira said in a series of text messages to The New York Times.
Ms. Oliveira was keen to stress that she does “not think he no longer has the quality to represent the national team,” just that “the current moment in his career” should be taken into account.
“This is not the first competition in which it is clear that the current Cristiano does not present enough soccer arguments to an undisputed place,” she said. “Portugal has options and, in order not to undermine his status, we are ignoring other players.”
Her view — one more commonly expressed by observers outside Portugal — is that Martínez and his employers are not prepared to omit or even substitute Ronaldo. And that in doing so, they are effectively no less compelled by his celebrity than those running from the stands in the hope of getting a photo.
The reason for that is encapsulated by what happened the last time Portugal tried to move beyond him. In that game against Switzerland in the 2022 World Cup, the Portuguese led by 5-0 with a quarter of the game remaining. Ramos had scored three times. Rather than celebrate a new hero, though, the crowd chanted Ronaldo’s name. The sport was over, they had decided. Now they wanted the show, the one they had come to see.
“It’s almost asked that Cristiano himself realizes he is no longer at the same level,” Ms. Oliveira said. “It won’t be the federation or Roberto Martínez who will do it.”
More than his Instagram follower count, that may be the best measure of Ronaldo’s untouchable status. He is so famous that one country, Germany, is finding it increasingly difficult to stage soccer games with him. And he is so famous that another country, Portugal, is not prepared to countenance playing any soccer games without him.
Andrew Das contributed reporting.
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EuroTrip: Directed by Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel. With Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Kristin Kreuk, Cathy Meils. Dumped by his girlfriend, a high school grad decides to embark on an overseas adventure in Europe with his friends.
EuroTrip. EuroTrip is a 2004 American teen sex comedy [3] film directed by Jeff Schaffer and written by Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Schaffer. It stars Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester, and Jessica Boehrs (in her film debut). Mechlowicz portrays Scott "Scotty" Thomas, an American high school graduate who ...
Watch EuroTrip | Netflix. After getting dumped at his high school graduation, Scotty heads to Europe with his friends in hopes of meeting up with an alluring German pen pal. Watch trailers & learn more.
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EuroTrip. Europe will never be the same again after Scotty Thomas and his buddies take off for the express to excess! They're hooking up with hot strangers and jamming all the extreme insanity they can into the wildest trip of their lives! 4,927 IMDb 6.6 1 h 30 min 2004. X-Ray R.
EuroTrip: Directed by Jeff Schaffer, Alec Berg, David Mandel. With Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Kristin Kreuk, Cathy Meils. Dumped by his girlfriend, a high school grad decides to embark on an overseas adventure in Europe with his friends.
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Written and directed by Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, Eurotrip is a teen comedy from the Montecito Picture Company (makers of similar movies Old
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10 things you may not know about. EuroTrip. It has been ten years since EuroTrip, riding the raunchy teen comedy revival of the late '90s and early naughts, burst into theaters and exposed an ...
Dumped by his girlfriend, a high school grad decides to embark on an overseas adventure in Europe with his friends. Ohio high school student Scott Thomas is a good student and nice guy - albeit a little predictable - who is about to graduate and go into pre-med. He is unceremoniously dumped by his whorish girlfriend Fiona on graduation day.
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Eurotrip. R Released Feb 20, 2004 1h 29m Comedy. TRAILER for Eurotrip: Trailer 1. List. 47% Tomatometer 120 Reviews. 75% Audience Score 250,000+ Ratings. After a brutal breakup at a high-school ...
Scott goes through a break-up after his high school graduation and asks his German penfriend, Mieke, to stay away from him. He realises that Mieke is a girl ...
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For all of the ways this juvenile comedy can be torn apart, EuroTrip still has plenty of frequent flier miles to offer.
Eurotrip - Unrated. Go All the Way with the Extended Trip. Europe will never be the same again after Scotty Thomas and his buddies take off for the express to excess! Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Go All the Way with the Extended Trip.
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An Oral History of the Cult Classic 'EuroTrip'. Writers/producers/directors Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer talk about battling it out with DreamWorks, turning Prague into basically every country in Europe and the power of 'Scotty Doesn't Know'. February 20, 2024.
Hi guys, I am staying in Michamvi and I am looking for somewhere to watch the Euro 2024 final tonight as I'm an England supporter. I've got a car so willing to drive maybe 15 mins or so. Can anyone give some recommendations? Thanks in...
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Get in the car and travel to some of the finest southwestern Ontario cities, towns and villages named after their bigger European counterparts. There are quite a few, including Vienna, Copenhagen ...
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GERMANY has been flooded with the colour orange in recent weeks. That's because thousands of Dutch fans have made the short trip over from Netherlands for Euro 2024. Ronald Koeman and his pla…
The Three Lions are hoping to go one step further than at Euro 2020 when they lost the final on penalties to Italy. But in their way are the best team at Euro 2024 so far, three-time champions Spain.
The Athletic embarked on a road trip to test the temperature of a country that hasn't always seemed entirely enthusiastic during Euro 2024
The soccer superstar's trip to Euro 2024 has been marked by pitch invaders and uninspiring performances. As fans try to get close, his team can't seem to let go.