Amy Adams declined raunchy SNL song to protect young Enchanted fans: ‘It will be scarring for them’

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  1. > “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 recalled of the lost sketch on a recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast. “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.”

    > He noted that they even played the beginning of the track and read some of its lyrics to Adams to gauge her potential interest. “She was like, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do that,’” Samberg said. “‘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.’”

    > Instead, Adams and the Lonely Island collaborated on “Hero’s Song,” a digital short that saw Samberg play a Batman-inspired superhero who gets the snot beat out of him after he attempts to stop a criminal (Jason Sudeikis) from robbing Adams. When it came time to shoot the segment, Samberg said a fateful encounter made him realize that Adams had made the right call.

    > “Within 5 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,’” he said. “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?”

    > He 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.”

  5. Michael Madsen has described being greeted by very young fans who knew him from Free Willy only to have parents who probably only knew him from Reservoir Dogs shoo their kids away. So it seems this is a real phenomenon.

  6. SNL: ok fine, Bill Burr how about you and this Rorschach sketch?

  7. This is an example of high emotional intelligence. Love it.

  8. You know what that’s fair. The way the world is maybe a little innocence should be protected

  10. I was 10 when Enchanted came out and the way I wanted to watch everything Amy Adams was in from there on was so real. Pretty good idea for her to avoid this one.

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