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Andy Samberg has recalled a heartwarming story about Amy Adams declining to film an NSFW Saturday Night Live skit.

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Appearing on a recent episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, Andy — who is part of the titular trio, along with Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone — revealed that Amy refused to perform an NSFW song in case young fans of her film Enchanted saw it.

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Amy played Princess Giselle in the 2007 Disney film alongside the likes of Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, and Idina Menzel.

Andy recalled on his podcast, “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.”

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“I know that’s kind of shitty to not say what the premise was, but it was basically like we were both really old and we were having a picnic — old people couple — and one of us gets stung by a scorpion. And then I’m dying or something 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,” he said.

“We played the beginning of it for her and read a bunch of the lyrics, and she thought it was very funny, and she was so nice as always — we love Amy, she’s a genius,” he shared.

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However, Andy revealed that as funny as she found the song, Amy ultimately concluded that she couldn’t perform it in case her young Enchanted fans happened to find it online.

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“She was like, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do that. Little girls are so obsessed with Enchanted right now. They will find this, and it will be scarring for them, and I just can’t mix that right now,’” he recalled.

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Amy ultimately ended up collaborating with Andy on a different skit track titled “Hero Song” — something that Andy said was absolutely the right move.

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“When we went out to shoot ‘Hero Song,’ 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,’” he recalled.

“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,” he added.

Go Amy! Can you think of other celebs who famously turned down SNL skits? If so, drop them below in the comments. Meanwhile, you can listen to the full episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast here.

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