A sampling of Amy Adams’ facial expressions while describing the nixed sketch.Nearly 20 years later, Amy Adams is still blushing.
When the six-time Oscar nominee appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, the host mentioned a story he had heard about her from his fellow Saturday Night Live alum, Andy Samberg.
In 2008, just a year after Amy starred in the 2007 kid-friendly Disney film Enchanted, she hosted the legendary sketch show.
At the time, Andy was blowing up online thanks to his musical digital shorts, and he filmed one with Amy called Hero Song.
The short starred a dejected Andy, dressed in business attire, staring out the window of his office building, and singing about how the city has too much “crime and evil” and needs a hero.
So, he puts on a Batman-esque costume and tries to stop a man from mugging Amy Adams, only to wind up getting beaten up by the mugger.
“That was not his first idea for you,” Seth said to Amy while reflecting on Hero Song.
“No,” the American Hustle star said, with a nervous laugh.
Seth continued: “[Andy] said he brought this song to you, and it was like, the filthiest song. I’ve never heard it. Do you remember it?”
“I do… but I’m not… I mean, it was…” Amy conceded, starting to stammer a bit. “It was, I’ll give you the gist without telling you the punchline.”
She then explained the setup: A couple is in the park when the husband gets bitten by a spider. As the husband is dying, his wife asks him if he has any last wishes.
Amy recalled: “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.”
Noticing Amy’s discomfort, Seth leaped in, noting: ”[Andy] applauds the fact that you spoke up for yourself because you basically were like, ‘I can’t do this’.”
“No, no,” she admitted. “I was just so keenly aware of all the young girls that were watching Enchanted, and I didn’t want to like, be the princess singing about that particular act, you know?”
“He said that literally the next day he watched a five-year-old come up to you and be like, ‘You mean so much to me,’” Seth recalled Andy telling him. “And he was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I almost made her do that!’”
