Why Hollywood Won't Cast Jason Biggs Anymore

In 2011, more than a dozen years after his auspicious, dessert-enhanced film debut in the blockbuster American Pie, Jason Biggs shifted his career trajectory from movies to television, taking a major role on a CBS midseason replacement called Mad Love. A multi-camera comedy, it concerned a group of friends in New York City falling in and out of love, then telling each other about their exploits in a bar. Yes, it was very reminiscent of Friends or How I Met Your Mother, and like those sitcoms, Mad Love boasted a solid, likable cast of familiar actors, such as Biggs, Sarah Chalke (Scrubs), and Judy Greer (Arrested Development). Unlike those predecessors, Mad Love didn't run for years and years — CBS canceled it after 13 episodes. All in all, Biggs' attempt at a major show on a major network didn't fare too well, leaving producers less likely to use him as a headliner in the future.

Unfortunately, Biggs prematurely lost his next big TV job, too. In 2013, he was part of the original cast of Orange Is the New Black as Larry, the non-incarcerated husband-to-be of central character Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling). By the show's third season in 2015, the show had evolved into a large ensemble series, and the writers decided to focus less on Piper's life on the outside, and before prison. The result: Larry and Biggs disappeared from the show after just two seasons.