Amy Adams has revealed that she turned down a sketch idea from Andy Samberg during his 2008 film. Saturday evening live her time as a host, and her reason for doing so, speaks volumes about the responsibility she felt towards her youngest fans.
Speaking on Late Night with Seth MeyersAdams explained that Samberg presented her with a sketch involving a couple in a park where the man had been bitten by a spider and, as a final wish, asked her partner something that Adams described as “the most graphic thing” she could imagine.
She kept the punchline to herself but gave enough setup to make the picture clear.
“I was so aware of all the young girls watching Delighted” she said.
“And I didn’t want to be the princess who sings that particular act, you know?”
The timing made his thinking completely understandable.
Adams hosted SNL just a few months later Delighted had become a hit with families and kids, and the last thing she wanted was to compromise the content her young audience would discover.
As she told Samberg at the time, according to her own account on The lonely island And Seth Meyers Podcastshe found the sketch “really funny” but felt she just couldn’t do it
. “Little girls are so obsessed with Enchanted right now that they’re going to find this and it’s going to leave them scarred,” she told him.
Samberg admitted he didn’t quite understand where she was coming from, until a moment during filming that completely changed his mind.
During the filming of hero song short for the same episode, a mother and her young daughter approached Adams on the street.
The look on the little girl’s face when she saw the actress was enough.
“Oh, she was so right,” Samberg recalled.
“It’s not even something that I thought about in our work, you know what I mean? She actually has an obligation and a responsibility to these kids, and she took that very seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”
Meyers confirmed that Samberg had previously publicly praised Adams for standing his ground, both for his own image and for the children who looked up to him.
