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Chevy Chase and Jason Reitman
Getty Images (2)Chevy Chase had a few choice words about Saturday Night Live original film, Ssaturday night.
Director Jason Reitman shared Chase’s reaction to the film in a recent episode Dana Carvey and David Spade‘with “Fly on the Wall” Podcast.. Carvey, 69, who set the scene for the story, joked, “Chevy loves to say things you shouldn’t say, to the point where he can go where he wants.”
Reitman, 47, began by knowing Chase, 81, “my whole life” and growing up as friends of his children. “So Chevy comes to see the movie and he’s there with (his wife) Jayne and they’re watching a movie,” he explains. “And he’s in the group and then he comes up to me and pats me on the shoulder and says, ‘Well, you should be embarrassed.’
The remark drew laughs from both Carvey and Spade, 60, the latter of whom said, “That’s exactly Chevy. You couldn’t have written it better. How funny.”
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Meanwhile, Carvey added, “He knows it’s funny, like, ‘Okay, that’s the harshest thing you could say to a director at that point.'”
After Chase’s review, Reitman said he tried to “balance” the meaning of the actor’s words. “I know, ‘Okay, I’m getting a Chevy Chase moment that’s 1,000 percent just for me right now.’ And from a comedy point of view, it’s really clean and it’s kind of cool,” he stated. “But I also just spent two years of my life recreating that moment and trying to capture Chevy perfectly and also, even in the ego, to find the humanity and give him a moment to be loved — no, none of that. ” with — played. They don’t talk about those things.”
Spade also wasn’t sure how much of Chase’s comment was comedic and how much was true. “It’s a funny thing to say, but then you have to look at the meter and say, ‘What percentage was real? Was it all a joke or was there something he wasn’t happy with?'” he said. “But you just don’t know and he walks away and you’re like, ‘Well, he saw it.’
Saturday nightwhich hit theaters in October, follows the cast and crew SNL in the hilarious and hectic 90 minutes leading up to the show’s first broadcast in October 1975. Cory Michael Smith in addition, he plays a young version of Chase in the film Kaia Gerber as Chase’s girlfriend at the time Jacqueline Carlin.
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Reitman shared his story shortly after his fellow director Chris Columbus he said Vanity Fair that he dropped out of work in 1989 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation after meeting Chase.
“I talked about how I saw the film, how I wanted to make the film. He didn’t say anything,” Columbus said in an interview published Dec. 23. “I spoke for about half an hour. He didn’t say a word. … After forty minutes of the meeting, he says: “Wait a minute. “You are the director?” And I said, ‘Yeah… I’m directing a movie.’ … He said, ‘Oh, I thought you were a drummer.'”
He continued: “I left the dinner and I thought, ‘It is no way i can make a movie with this guy. First, he is not engaged. He treats me like s—. I don’t need this. I prefer not to work anymore. I prefer to write.'”
