Amy Adams Once Turned Down 'Very Dirty' The Lonely Island Song on SNL Over Enchanted Fanbase: It'd Be 'Scarring'

Amy Adams once turned down “very dirty” Saturday night live sketch.

In the episode of November 4 The Lonely Island and the Seth Meyers podcastAndy Samberg revealed that Adams, 50, dropped a lewd skit during her 2008 guest appearance, but she turned him down because she recently starred in a Disney family musical Enchanted.

“I won’t go into detail about it, but it was a song that was going to be a duet with me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty,” Samberg, 46, recalled.

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

Describing the premise, Brooklyn Nine-Nine alum explained: “It was actually like we were both really old and we were on a picnic and one of us got stung by a scorpion. And then, I’m dying or something, and the only lament on my deathbed is that we’re no longer sexually explore things in our life and that’s what this huge pop anthem is about.”

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

“We played her the beginning and read a bunch of lines. She thought it was really funny and she was so sweet, as always,” Samberg said, before adding: “We love Amy, she’s brilliant.”

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Eventually, Adams told them she didn’t want to do the skit because of her young fan.

Samberg recalled, “She said, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do it. Little girls are so obsessed Enchanted right now. They will find this and it will scar them. I just can’t mix it right now.'”

Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey in the 2007 film ‘Enchanted’ Images by Buena Vista/Courtesy of the Everett Collection

The musical number was replaced by a digital short called “Hero Song,” which follows Samberg as an aspiring superhero who saves Adams’ character from a robbery.

On the day they filmed the skit, Brooklyn Nine-Nine The alum realized that Adams made the right choice by refusing to execute the original idea.

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“When we went out to shoot ‘Hero Song,’ within five minutes, a mother and her little girl came up. The look on the little girl’s face when she saw Amy Adams, I said, ‘Oh, she was so right,’ ” he said. “And it was very educational for me. It’s not something I’ve ever thought about in our business, you know what I mean? Like, she actually has an obligation and a responsibility to these kids, and she took that very seriously. And I remember being that really impressed me.”

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

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Samberg went on to say that at the time, YouTube was starting to grow as a platform and that the digital short would likely be “accidentally” discovered by younger fans who wanted to “watch anything with Amy Adams” due to their love of Enchanted.

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Adams is currently gearing up for the release of his upcoming comedy horror film night bitchwhich was directed and written by Taccone’s wife, Marielle Heller.

Taccone, 47, praised Adams for her performance in the film during an episode of the podcast, saying she was “freakin’ amazing in it.”

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The actress, who also starred in the 2022 sequel Enchanted called Disappointedrecently revealed to PEOPLE how her latest role resonates with her.

“I’m naturally a little more like, I don’t know, what you call a down-to-earth person,” she said. “Although I enjoy the fun and festivities of dressing up, I kind of like being in my natural state, stepping into the role of a mom who has just gone off the rails.”

Saturday night live airs Saturdays at 11:30pm ET on NBC.

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