Amy Adams has revealed that she rejected a sketch idea from Andy Samberg during her 2008. Saturday night live season as host, and her reason for doing so speaks volumes about the responsibility she felt toward her younger fans.
speaking in Late Night with Seth MeyersAdams explained that Samberg had proposed a play involving a couple in a park where the man had been bitten by a spider and, as a last wish, he asked his partner for something that Adams described as “the most graphic thing” he could imagine.
She kept the punchline to herself, but gave enough information about the setup to clarify the picture.
“I was very aware of all the young girls who were watching nice to meet you“, said.
“And I didn’t want to be the princess singing about that particular act, you know?”
The moment made his thought completely understandable.
Adams was hosting SNL just a few months later nice to meet you had become a hit with families and children, and the last thing it wanted was to undermine that with content that its young audience might stumble over.
As he told Samberg at the time, according to his own account in The lonely island and Seth Meyers PodcastHe found the sketch “really funny”, but felt he just couldn’t do it.
. “Little girls are so obsessed with Enchanted now that they will find this and it will scar them,” he told her.
Samberg admitted that he hadn’t quite understood where she was coming from, until one moment during filming he changed his mind completely.
While shooting the Hero’s song To cut the same episode short, a mother and her young daughter approached Adams on the street.
The expression on the little girl’s face when she saw the actress was enough.
“Oh, he was so right,” Samberg remembers thinking.
“It’s not something I’ve even thought about in our line of work, you know what I mean? She actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and she took it very seriously. And I remember that really impressed me.”
Meyers confirmed that Samberg had publicly praised Adams for standing her ground, both for her own image and for the children who looked up to her.
