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 protect the young fans of her fairytale comedy, “Enchanted,” which hit theaters four months earlier.
“I’ll give you the gist without telling you the punchline,” Adams said. “It was this couple [and] he got bit by a spider in the park, and she’s like, ‘Honey, I love you so much, and now that you’re dying, is there any last wish?’ And he’s like, ‘Yes, I never got a chance to…’ And then said what could only be described as the most graphic thing that he wanted to do with me.”
Having just starred in the family-friendly “Enchanted,” Adams explained that she couldn’t bear the thought of her young fans seeing her in such a lewd sketch, so she had to shoot it down.
“I was so keenly aware of all the young girls that were watching ‘Enchanted,’” she explained. “And I didn’t want to be the princess singing about that particular act, you know?”
In 2024, Samberg also told Meyers about 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.
“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,’” Samberg remembered. “And it was very instructive for me. It’s not something I even ever thought about in our line of work, you know what I mean? 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.”