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Chevy Chase and Jason Reitman
Getty Images (2)Chevy Chase had some choice words about the Saturday Night Live origin film, SSaturday night.
Director Jason Reitman shared Chase’s reaction to the film on a recent episode of Dana Carvey a David Spade‘s “Fly on the Wall” Podcast.. Setting the scene for the story, Carvey, 69, said: “Chevy loves to say the thing you’re not supposed to say, to the extreme, where he can go wherever he wants to go. “
Reitman, 47, began by noting that he had known Chase, 81, “all my life” and that he had brought up his children as friends. “So, Chevy comes in to watch the movie, and he’s there with (his wife) Jayni and they watch the film,” he explains. “And he’s in the group, and he comes up to me afterwards and taps me on the shoulder and says, ‘Well, you should be embarrassed.'”
The comment prompted laughter from Carvey and Spade, 60, the latter of whom said: “What a Chevy thing. You couldn’t even write better. How funny.”
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Carvey, meanwhile, added: “He knows that’s funny, like, ‘Okay, that’s the rudest thing you can say to a director in that moment.'”
Following Chase’s review, Reitman said he was trying to “balance” the meaning of the actor’s words. “I know, ‘Okay, I’m having a Chevy Chase moment that’s just 1,000 percent me right now. And from a comedy standpoint, that’s really pure and that’s cool,’” he said. “But also, I spent, like, two years of my life recreating this moment and trying to capture Chevy perfectly, and also, even in the ego, find the humanity and give it a moment be loved – no, none of that s— play. He doesn’t talk about those things.”
Spade, for his part, was also unsure how much of Chase’s comment was comedy and how much was true. “It’s a funny thing to say, but then, you have to look at the meter and go, ‘What percentage was real? Was it all a joke, or was there a bit he’s not happy (with)?’” he said. “But you don’t know and he leaves, and you go, ‘Well, he saw it.'”
Saturday nightwhich hit theaters in October, following a cast and crew of SNL in the funny and busy 90 minutes leading up to the show’s first broadcast in October 1975. Cory Michael Smith plays a young version of Chase in the film alongside Kaia Gerber as Chase’s girlfriend at the time Jacqueline Carlin.
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Reitman shared his story shortly after his co-director Chris Columbus say Vanity fair that he stopped working in 1989 National Lampoon’s Christmas Holidays after meeting Chase.
“I talked about how I saw the film, how I wanted to make the film. He didn’t say anything,” Columbus told the outlet in an interview published on December 23. “I went through about half an hour of talking. He didn’t say a word. … Forty minutes into the meeting, he said, ‘Wait a second. You’re the director?’ And I said, ‘Yes … I’m directing the film.’ … He said, ‘Oh, I thought you were a drummer.'”
He continued: “I left the dinner and I thought, ‘There it is no way i can make a movie with this guy. First of all, he is not engaged. He treats me like s—. I don’t need this. I’d rather not work again. I’d rather write.’”
