"Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary"
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Jason Biggs nails a weird little truth about celebrity: scale turns ordinary into desirable. “Projected on a 70 foot screen” isn’t just a flex about movie stardom; it’s a reminder that attraction is easily hacked by presentation. The joke lands because it’s concrete. Seventy feet is absurdly specific, the kind of measurement that makes the phenomenon feel both undeniable and ridiculous. He’s not claiming he got hotter. He’s claiming the apparatus made him hotter.
The subtext is a quiet critique of how desire gets outsourced to status and spectacle. A face on a massive screen comes pre-approved: lighting, framing, music cues, and the audience’s collective attention all act like a social proof machine. Biggs is pointing to the way the film industry manufactures intimacy at industrial scale, turning someone you’ve never met into someone you feel you know. That manufactured closeness can spill into real life, where people treat the actor as the character, or at least as someone worth wanting because everyone else is watching.
“Which is pretty scary” is the moral tag, and it’s doing real work. It signals he’s in on the absurdity and uneasy about the power imbalance: the screen creates an illusion that benefits him, even if it has nothing to do with who he is off-camera. Coming from Biggs, whose early fame was tied to teen-sex comedy, it also reads as self-aware: he’s acknowledging that his “appeal” was partly a product, not a personal achievement. The line is funny because it’s humble; it’s unsettling because it’s probably accurate.
The subtext is a quiet critique of how desire gets outsourced to status and spectacle. A face on a massive screen comes pre-approved: lighting, framing, music cues, and the audience’s collective attention all act like a social proof machine. Biggs is pointing to the way the film industry manufactures intimacy at industrial scale, turning someone you’ve never met into someone you feel you know. That manufactured closeness can spill into real life, where people treat the actor as the character, or at least as someone worth wanting because everyone else is watching.
“Which is pretty scary” is the moral tag, and it’s doing real work. It signals he’s in on the absurdity and uneasy about the power imbalance: the screen creates an illusion that benefits him, even if it has nothing to do with who he is off-camera. Coming from Biggs, whose early fame was tied to teen-sex comedy, it also reads as self-aware: he’s acknowledging that his “appeal” was partly a product, not a personal achievement. The line is funny because it’s humble; it’s unsettling because it’s probably accurate.
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