Andy Samberg says Amy Adams turned down filming a “very dirty” music for a “Saturday Night Live” skit as soon as — however for the sweetest motive.
Whereas showing on an episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers” podcast launched on Nov. 4, Samberg — who’s one-third of the Lonely Island comedy trio alongside Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — revealed why Adams refused to do the NSFW music whereas internet hosting “SNL” in March 2008.
The comic defined that Adams determined in opposition to it to guard the younger followers of her movie, “Enchanted.” On the time, the film, through which Adams performed princess-to-be Giselle, had simply been launched months earlier than she appeared on the late night time sketch present.
“I’m not going to go into great detail about it, but it was a song that would have been a duet with me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty,” Samberg stated of the scrapped tune. “It was basically, like, we were both really old and we were having a picnic, like, old people couple, and one of us gets stung by a scorpion.”
“And then 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,” he continued.
Samberg went on to share that Adams knew the tune could possibly be problematic after he ran previous among the music’s raunchy lyrics along with her.
“She was like, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do that,’” the “SNL” alum recalled. “‘Little girls are so obsessed with ‘Enchanted’ right now. They will find this, and it will be scarring for them, and I just can’t mix that right now.’”
The “Nightbitch” star in the end handed on the bit and teamed up with Samberg on “Hero Song” throughout her internet hosting debut on “SNL.” The skit noticed Samberg as a knockoff Batman who will get pummeled by fellow former solid member Jason Sudeikis for attempting to cease him from robbing Adams.
Samberg stated an sudden encounter with one among Adams’ followers whereas filming the skit made him notice that the actor made the appropriate name.
“When we went out to shoot ‘Hero Song,’ within five minutes, a mother and her little girl walked up, and the look on the little girl’s face upon seeing Amy Adams, I was like, ‘Oh, she was so right,’” he stated.
“It was very instructive for me,” he added. “It’s not something I even ever thought about in our line of work, you know what I mean? Of like, she actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and she took it really seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”
Samberg additionally spoke about how the web might have contributed to the discarded music being part of Adams’ life ceaselessly.
“It also spoke to the internet’s influence,” he stated. “Up until that point, YouTube and stuff — [it] was a year or two into it even existing and being a thing that people would be like, ‘I’m going to watch everything with Amy Adams because I love Enchanted,’ and accidentally finding that proposed song.”
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