Amy Adams Once Turned Down 'Very Dirty' The Lonely Island Song onSNLOverEnchantedFanbase: It'd Be 'Scarring'

Mar. 15, 2025

Amy Adams in ‘Enchanted’.Photo:Disney Enterprises/Kobal/Shutterstock

Disney Enterprises/Kobal/Shutterstock

Amy Adamsonce turned down a “very dirty"Saturday Night Liveskit.

On the Nov. 4 episode ofThe Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast,Andy Sambergrevealed that he pitched Adams, 50, a raunchy sketch during her 2008 hosting gig but she turned it down because she had recently starred in the Disney family musical movieEnchanted.

“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, 46, recalled.

Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island in 2000.Donna Ward/Getty Images

But whenthe comedy trio– consisting of Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer – described the musical skit to Adams, she politely declined.

“We played the beginning of it for her and read a bunch of the lyrics. She thought it was very funny and she was so nice, as always,” Samberg said before adding, “We love Amy, she’s a genius.”

Ultimately, Adams told them that she did not want to do the sketch because of her young fanbase.

Samberg recalled: “She was like, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do that. Little girls are so obsessed withEnchantedright now. They will find this and it will be scarring for them. I just can’t mix that right now.'”

Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey in 2007’s ‘Enchanted’.Buena Vista Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

The musical number was replaced with adigital short called “Hero Song,“which follows Samberg as an aspiring superhero who saves Adams’ character from being robbed.

On the day they shot the sketch, theBrooklyn Nine-Ninealum realized that Adams made the right choice in refusing to do the original idea.

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Amy Adams at the 27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival on October 29, 2024.Cindy Ord/Getty

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Taccone, 47, gave Adams a shout-out for her performance in the movie during the podcast episode, saying she’s “f—ing amazing in it.”

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The actress, who also starred in the 2022 sequel toEnchantedcalledDisenchanted, recently opened up to PEOPLE abouthow her latest role resonates with her.

“I’m naturally a bit more of like a, I don’t know, what you call earthy person,” she said. “So though I enjoy the fun and the festivity of getting dolled up, I kind of like being in my natural state, stepping into the role of a mom who sort of just went off the rails.”

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source: people.com