Andy Samberg has claimed that Amy Adams declined to perform a “very dirty” song on Saturday Night Live in order to protect young fans of the film Enchanted.
Samberg, 46, spoke about the song during the Monday, November 4, episode of “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast,” detailing how he recalled Adams, 50, rejecting the Lonely Island pitch when she was preparing to host SNL in 2008.
“I’m not gonna 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 said on the podcast.
Adams portrayed princess-to-be Giselle in 2007’s Enchanted, a live-action and animated film that poked fun at the fairytale aspects of classic Disney stories, sending its leading lady to a place where happily-ever-afters were hard to come by — New York City.
Samberg continued, “It was basically like we were both really old and we were having a picnic, 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.”
The actor added that while Adams told him she thought the song was funny, “She was like … ‘I can’t do that. 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 podcast also delved into how Adams and Samberg worked on a Lonely Island track titled “Hero’s Song” instead of pursuing the risque track, which involved Samberg portraying a Batman-type superhero who gets beaten up for trying to stop somebody from robbing Adams.
“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 said on the podcast. “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?”
Samberg continued, “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.”
Adams portrayed the character of Giselle for a second time in Enchanted’s 2022 sequel, Disenchanted. The film reunited her with original costars including Patrick Dempsey, Idina Menzel and James Marsden.
Adams’ more recent cinematic work has allowed her to venture beyond fairytale explorations, with the actress recently revealing she grew out her own chin hair for her role in the upcoming film Nightbitch. Starring as Mother in the film, set to be released in cinemas on December 6, Adams told Variety in a profile published on October 22, “The hair on the face — that was mine. I saw it as a wonderful expression of the human experience without any artifice or filters. Or tweezers!”
