Amy Adams said on 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 protect the young fans of his fairy-tale comedy Enchanted, which opened in theaters four months earlier.
“I won’t give you the punch line, just get to the point,” Adams said. “It was this couple (and) he got bitten by a spider in the park. And she said, ‘Honey, I love you so much, and now that you’re dying, do you have any last wishes?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, I never had a chance to do that…’ and he said what can only be described as the most graphic thing he wanted to do with me. ”
Adams, who just starred in the family film Enchanted, explained that he had to stop filming because he couldn’t bear the thought of his young fans seeing such a raunchy sketch of himself.
“I was very conscious of young girls watching Enchanted,” she explained. “And I didn’t want to be the princess singing about that particular act, you know?”
In 2024, Samberg also spoke to Myers about the cut sketches. He told the former “SNL” performer that he was “really impressed” that Adams had the foresight to take responsibility for her image.
“Within five minutes, a mother and a little girl came up to me. I saw the look on the little girl’s face when she saw Amy Adams, and I thought, ‘Oh, she was so right,'” Samberg recalled. “And that was very educational for me. I never thought of that in our work. You know what I mean? I mean, she actually had a duty and responsibility to the kids and she took that really seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”
