(WARNING: STRONG ADULT LANGUAGE AND HUMOR. LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.)

The benefit of playing Doug Glatt, the titular goon of the cult hockey movies “Goon” and “Goon: Last of the Enforcers,” is that Seann William Scott didn’t have to be the strongest skater. In fact, in the first film, his lack of skating prowess became a plot point.

“It wasn’t meant to be, I don’t think,” he recalled in an interview on this week’s PUCK SOUP podcast. (The interview starts at the 34:35 mark.) “He’s not supposed to be a good skater, but I think as some point they were like, ‘well, this is as good as he’s going to be.’”

His skating has gotten better for “Goon: Last of the Enforcers,” which hits theaters in Canada on March 17 with an American release later this year. His cast-mate Marc-Andre Grondin, back as the enigmatic scorer Xavier LaFlamme, said he’s gone from “a one to maybe a five.” Scott said, “It’s better. It couldn’t get any worse.”

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The sequel to the 2011 film – which quickly attained cult movie success and was a critical hit, including three stars from Roger Ebert – has Doug Glatt nearing the end of his hockey career, furthering his relationship with Eva (Alison Pill), being threatened by a Goon 2.0 in the form of Wyatt Russell (who steals the movie) and getting more sage advice from Live Schreiber’s Ross Rhea (who stole the first movie). Jay Baruchel wrote both “Goon” films and directs this one, and its beautifully bloody fights.

Once you get settled with Glatt and these characters again, it’s a happy homecoming.

“That’s the beauty of doing a sequel,” said Scott. “You know you’re doing it because people really responded to the first movie. When you doing a movie sometimes, you’re like ‘I don’t know if this is going to work or if anybody’s going to care.’”

Scott, 41, said after the first “Goon” that it was the closest thing he’ll get to a superhero film.

“He’s got this skill. He’s really good at it. So it’s almost like he has a superpower, and he uses it for good. It’s like he’s saving his teammates. He’s like a hero to them,” he said.

“And that’s as close as I’m ever going to get to a Marvel film. They’re still never going to call me.”

Much like Marvel has its universe, so does one of Scott’s older films: “American Pie,” which spawned two theatrical sequels (both with Scott’s Stifler character) and three that went direct to video (sans Stifler). All six have featured actor Eugene Levy, who also appeared in “Goon.”

So we asked Seann William Scott: Is Eugene Levy the Nick Fury of “American Pie?”

He laughed.

“He is Nick Fury. He’s the Jewish Nick Fury,” said Scott. “It would be so great if he just sat at home and said to himself: ‘I AM NICK FURY!’”

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PUCK SOUP is the hockey podcast on the Nerdist network from Puck Daddy editor Greg Wyshynski and Dave Lozo of Vice Sports, Uproxx and The Comeback. This is a hockey podcast, in the sense that the talk about hockey, both on the ice and about fan culture. That’s the “puck.” This is also a podcast about movies, TV, fast food, life lessons and general idiocy. That’s the “soup.”



