Amy Adams Protected 'Enchanted's Honor From 'SNL'

This is going to sound random as all get out, but I seriously became an Amy Adams fan because of Enchanted. My wife and I rented it from Blockbuster when it first hit DVD (really dating myself here), and Adams sold the living daylights out of this puppy. Any other actress, and it would’ve been a rote bubble gum Disney movie. Instead, she swung for the rafters and nailed it. I became a fan for life and also very obnoxious about her getting stuck playing Superman’s girlfriend. I’m sure the money was great, but Amy Adams deserved better.

Anyway, with Enchanted fever in full swing in early 2008, she landed a hosting gig on SNL where Andy Samberg had a Lonely Island sketch idea that Adams immediately shut down because she was “so keenly aware of all the young girls” watching the movie.

Via THR:

“I’ll give you the gist without telling you the punchline,” Adams said of the sketch during a recent appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. “It was this couple [and] he got bit by a spider in the park, and she’s like, ‘Honey, I love you so much, and now that you’re dying, is there any last wish?’ And he’s like, ‘Yes, I never got a chance to…’ And then said what could only be described as the most graphic thing that he wanted to do with me.”

Because Andy Samberg is a notoriously good dude, he actually recounted this story to Seth Meyers a year ago on The Lonely Island podcast. More importantly, it taught him a valuable lesson, and he was in awe of Adams drawing a line when she was just starting to break out. Via Variety:

The comedy group and Adams pivoted instead to “Hero Song,” a digital short about a superhero who beats the hell out of a criminal after he robs Adams. The sketch made it to air, and Samberg said it was the right call after he witnessed how much kids adore Adams while filming the short.

“Within five 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,’” Samberg remembered. “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? 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.”

Unfortunately, this is the sketch that made it to air. Let’s just say it was an early warning that the superhero genre absolutely squanders Amy Adams. Looking forward to her swinging a lightsaber though!