Nicholas Brendon surfs the big screen

Teen People
September 2000

Remember Alyson Hannigan's famously vulgar flute line in last summer's American Pie? Well, Nicholas Brendon manages to make his first major movie role memorable with some seriously jaw-dropping dialogue of his own in the new comedy-slasher flick Psycho Beach Party. "It seems people from Buffy get the weird, shocking things to say in films," says the actor best known as Xander.

The 29-year-old Los Angeles native made the most of the film's 28-day shooting schedule--not that it was grueling or anything. "It was fun to hang out at the beach. I started speaking surfer talk," says Nicholas, who admits that his actual surfing skills weren't necessary. "They filmed those scenes against a blue screen and inserted the waves." Still, he did take home two very real souvenirs from the experience: a surfboard and a sunburn.