Amy Adams turned down a graphic SNL sketch to protect young ‘enchanted’ fans

Amy Adams said during a recent appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyersthat while hosting “Saturday Night Live” in 2008, she rejected a “graphic” sketch idea from Andy Samberg to protect the young fans of her fairytale comedy “Enchanted,” which hit theaters four months earlier.

“I’ll give you the gist without telling you the punch line,” Adams said. “It was this couple [and] he was bitten by a spider in the park, and she said, “Honey, I love you so much, and now that you’re dying, is there any last wish?” And he said, ‘Yes, I never had the chance to…’ And then said what could only be described as the most poignant thing he wanted to do to me.”

Having just starred in the family-friendly “Enchanted,” Adams explained that she couldn’t bear the thought of her young fans seeing her in such a lewd skit, so she had to shoot it.

“I was so acutely aware of all the young girls watching ‘Enchanted,’” she explained. “And I didn’t want to be the princess singing about that particular act, you know?”

In 2024, Samberg Meyers also told about the cut sketch. He told his former “SNL” castmate that he was “really impressed” that Adams had the forethought to take responsibility for her image.

“Within five minutes, a mother and her little girl walked up and the look on the little girl’s face when I saw Amy Adams, I thought, ‘Oh, she was so right,’” Samberg recalled. “And it was very educational for me. It’s not something that I even thought about in our work, you know what I mean? Like, she has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and she took it very seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”