Andy Samberg praised Amy Adams during a recent episode of the “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) for rejecting the comedy group’s pitch for her to star in a raunchy “Saturday Night Live” digital short. Adams was hosting “SNL” in 2008, a yr after winning raves for her leading turn in Disney’s “Enchanted.” Samberg remembered the actor being loyal to her Disney fans, a lot in order that she had to guard them from The Lonely Island’s “very dirty” sketch pitch.
“I’m not gonna go into great detail about it, however it was a song that might have been a duet with me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty,” Samberg said of the lost sketch. “It was principally like we were each really old and we were having a picnic, old people couple, and one among us gets stung by a scorpion. After which I’m dying or something and the one lament on my deathbed is that we didn’t explore things more sexually in our life, and it’s this huge up anthem about that.”
Samberg and his Lonely Island members Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer had the raunchy song already written and produced. They played Adams a number of the track to gauge her interest, but she immediately shot them down.
“She was like, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t try this,’” Samberg said. “‘Little girls are so obsessive about ‘Enchanted’ straight away. They may find this, and it’s going to be scarring for them. I just can’t mix that straight away.’”
The comedy group and Adams pivoted as an alternative to “Hero Song,” a digital short a few superhero who beats the hell out of a criminal after he robs Adams. The sketch made it to air, and Samberg said it was the best call after he witnessed how much kids adore Adams while filming the short.
“Inside five minutes, a mother and her little girl walked up and the look on the little girl’s face upon seeing Amy Adams, I used to be like, ‘Oh, she was so right,’” Samberg remembered. “And it was very instructive for me. It’s not something I even ever thought of in our line of labor, you understand what I mean? Like, she actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and he or she took it really seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”
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