Amy Adams Refused Sexually Explicit ‘SNL’ Song to Protect Young ‘Enchanted’ Fans

Andy Samberg and Lonely Island, who hit big with raunchy SNL songs/sketches for Natalie Portman and Justin Timberlake, had something extra filthy in mind when Amy Adams came to host in 2008. On the latest The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, Samberg said, “I’m not gonna go into great detail about it, but it was a song that would have been a duet with me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty.” 

Here’s the bit you never got to see: Samberg and Adams would have played an elderly couple enjoying a picnic in the park. “And one of us gets stung by a scorpion,” he said, revealing a ludicrous twist. “And then I’m dying and the one lament on my deathbed is that we didn’t explore things more sexually in our life, and it’s this huge up anthem about that.”

Samberg and the boys played some of the song for Adams, and she agreed the lyrics were hilarious. She also refused to sing them, but not because she’s a prude. “‘Little girls are so obsessed with Enchanted right now,” she told the Lonely Island guys. “They will find this, and it will be scarring for them, and I just can’t mix that right now.’” 

No problem, said Lonely Island, coming up with “Hero Song” about a wannabe superhero (Samberg) who gets his ass kicked while attempting to stop a run-of-the-mill mugging.

While filming the digital short, Samberg learned that Adams wasn’t simply imagining the impact of her creative choices. “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 said. “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.”

Lesson learned. “It was very instructive for me,” Samberg said. “It’s not something I even ever thought about in our line of work.”

Meyers pointed out that SNL’s YouTube era — which Lonely Island helped usher in — made it easy for many kids to find sketches that originally aired well past their bedtime. “It spoke to the internet’s influence,” agreed Samberg. “Up until that point, YouTube … was a year or two into it even existing and being a thing that people would be like, ‘I’m gonna watch everything with Amy Adams because I love Enchanted' and accidentally finding that proposed song.”

But now that we’re 17 years past the release of Enchanted, those young fans are all grown up. Is it too late to ask Samberg and Adams to fill us in on all their missed sexual adventures?