Matthew Lillard rents Scooby-Doo’s Mystery Machine on Airbnb

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Zoinks! Matthew Lillard time travel to visit the scooby-doo Mystery Machine 20 years after the live action film was released in 2002.

The good girls alum, 52, has partnered with Airbnb and Warner Bros. to invite fans to book a stay in the Mystery Machine van, which will be decked out in the grooviest gadgets of the 60s. , thank goodness!”) — but don’t expect Lillard to reprise the role of Shaggy on the big screen anytime soon.

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“We are all now in our 50s. I can no longer imagine us as ingesting teenagers and playing ingesting teenagers. The good news is that what excites me is that I can still do the voice, so I’m still committed to the character. I’m still committed to the franchise,” he said exclusively. We Weekly Monday, June 6. “I hold this character as my own until they replace me and move me to the pasture. I’m very proud of that, so it’s really nice to be connected to a character all these years later. But if they ever did the Scooby Apocalypse, maybe I would.”

Lillard starred as Norville “Shaggy” Rogers in scooby-doo and sequel from 2004 Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed next to Freddie Prinze Jr. (Fred), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Daphne) and Linda Cardellini (Velma).

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“I flew out to audition for the role. I was the first person they saw. We auditioned around 10:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning,” Lillard recalled to We. “And the only way I could do the voice originally was to shout me horse. So I showed up for the audition and – I’ll never forget – the director [Raja Gosnell] and the producer were crossing the parking lot. I didn’t see them at the time. And I was screaming in my car, ‘Ahhhh! Ahhh!’ And they come to the window and knocked on the window. And they’re like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m just preparing for the voice.’ “

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Once he landed the role, the Scream star “had to figure out how to do it” for “hours straight” on set.

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“Every day on the way to work, whether it was a five minute drive, a half hour drive or an hour drive, I would listen to Casey Kasem on repeat,” he said of the late DJ radio, the origin of the voice. . “I had the whole AV department cut, like, 15 episodes of just Casey doing Shaggy. I still have it somewhere.”

For Lillard, it’s been “super rewarding” to be a part of the iconic franchise. “It’s fun to celebrate a movie I made so long ago and people still care about it [about.] It’s humiliating,” he said. “I’m just thrilled to be a part of it.”

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The Mystery Machine stay is now bookable on Airbnb and is located on private property along the Southern California coast. It will include all-you-can-eat snacks and a selection to choose from for dinner (including Shaggy and Scooby’s favorites like hot dogs and eggplant burgers!), mystery games, a chance to listen to Sugar’s album Ray on a portable CD player. while creating the atmosphere with a lava lamp, a nocturnal revival of scooby-dooan outdoor configuration with lounge seating and more.

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Freddie Prinze Jr, Linda Cardellini, Matthew Lillard, Sarah Michelle Gellar Hannah Barbera Prods/Atlas/Kobal/Shutterstock

“It’s spectacular. …I just think for the fans of the movie, they’re going to love it,” the She is all that the actor said We. “They spared no expense to create this experience. I came out to see it and the whole team stood back and gave me a moment [to look around]. … It’s inspiring.

Guests can book three individual one-night stays on June 24, 25 and 26 for just $20 a night. Mystery Inc. fans can request to book this stay starting Thursday, June 16 at 1 p.m. ET. For more information, go here.

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