Amy Adams rejected singing dirty ‘SNL’ song to protect fans of ‘Enchanted’
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Amy Adams rejected a risqué song pitched to her by the Saturday Night Live team, in order to protect younger fans of her 2007 film Enchanted.
Adams hosted Saturday Night Live in 2008, a year after she starred as hopeful princess Giselle in Kevin Lima’s musical Enchanted. The film took in hundreds of millions at the box office, endearing itself to fans of all ages.
While working with comedian and The Lonely Island member Andy Samberg to solidify her Saturday Night Live sketches, Adams was particularly keen to protect the younger fanbase she had accrued with Enchanted. Accordingly, she rejected a particularly suggestive song that Samberg pitched to her.
The former Saturday Night Live writer recently recalled the experience of working with Adams on The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. “It was a song that would have been a duet with me and Amy Adams,” he explained, “And it was very dirty.”
The pair would have starred as an old couple enjoying a picnic when a scorpion stings one of them. “And then I’m dying or something,” Samberg explained, “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.”
After working on the song with his fellow Lonely Island bandmates Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, they played it to Adams, but she couldn’t get on board with it. “She was like, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do that,” Samberg remembered, “‘Little girls are so obsessed with Enchanted right now. They will find this, and it will be scarring for them. I just can’t mix that right now.’”
Samberg immediately understood why Adams made this decision after working with her. “Within five minutes,” he recalled, “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.’”
The comedian also described the experience as “instructive,” admitting that he hadn’t thought about it in his own line of work. “She actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and she took it really seriously,” he concluded, “And I remember being really impressed by that.”
Adams’ next project, Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch, is set to arrive in cinemas early next month, on December 6th. She stars as an unnamed mother who turns into a dog alongside a supporting cast featuring Scoot McNairy and Zoë Chao.
Meanwhile, The Lonely Island recently released their first new music in five years, ‘Sushi Glory Hole’, which appeared as an SNL digital short last month.
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