Amy Adams said during a recent appearance on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” that while hosting “Saturday Night Live” in 2008, she turned down a “graphic” sketch idea from Andy Samberg to guard the young fans of her fairytale comedy, “Enchanted,” which hit theaters 4 months earlier.
“I’ll provide you with the gist without telling you the punchline,” Adams said. “It was this couple [and] he got bit by a spider within the park, and she or he’s like, ‘Honey, I really like you a lot, and now that you just’re dying, is there any last wish?’ And he’s like, ‘Yes, I never got a probability to…’ After which said what could only be described as essentially the most graphic thing that he desired to do with me.”
Having just starred within the family-friendly “Enchanted,” Adams explained that she couldn’t bear the considered her young fans seeing her in such a lewd sketch, so she needed to shoot it down.
“I used to be so keenly aware of all of the young girls that were watching ‘Enchanted,’” she explained. “And I didn’t need to be the princess singing about that specific act, you recognize?”
In 2024, Samberg also told Meyers in regards to the cut sketch. He told his former “SNL” castmate that he was “really impressed” that Adams had the forethought to take responsibility for her image.
“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 recognize what I mean? Like, she actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and she or he took it really seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”