Chevy Chase had a brutal reaction to an SNL episode on Saturday night

Jason Reitman’s “Saturday Night” is a stressful, chaotic thriller that covers the 90 minutes leading up to the first episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which aired back in 1975. / And Ethan Anderson, the film’s director, gave it a shot Glowing 9 out of 10 reviewbut “SNL” alum Chevy Chase had a different reaction. As Reitman explained on A The latest episode of the “Fly on the Wall” podcast. (hosted by “SNL” alumni David Spade and Dana Carvey), Chase Reitman told his thoughts on the film after an early screening:

“Chevy likes to say the thing she’s not supposed to say – to the extreme (…) I have an example for you (…) So, Chevy comes to see the movie, and he’s there with (his wife) Jenny, and they’re watching the movie, and he’s on the set And then he comes up to me, taps me on the shoulder and says, “Well, you must be embarrassed.”

Carvey then offered a possible explanation for what Chase said, suggesting that perhaps he was just joking to make Reitman uncomfortable. “Well, he knows that’s funny — like that’s the cruelest thing you could say to a director right now, or there,” Carvey noted. Reitman later explained how even though he appreciated the humor of having his own “Chevy Chase was a jerk to me” story to tell people, it was still kind of painful:

“I try to balance it out because, in my mind, I know, ‘Okay, I’m going to have a Chevy Chase moment that’s just 1,000 percent for me right now.’ And from a comedic standpoint, that’s really pure, which is kind of cool, but also, I’ve had two years Of my life in recreating this moment and trying to portray Chevy perfectly, and even in his ego, find the humanity and give him a moment to be loved and no, none of that is played out. He doesn’t talk about those things.

Although many of the cast members portrayed in “Saturday Night” have publicly praised the film (including Dan Aykroyd, who… Shoot it “A driving, engaging, funny, beautifully acted, suspenseful, adventurous, music-filled ride,” Reitman admitted that he could see why one of the original SNL cast members might not be happy to see themselves on screen in this way.

“I’ve made a couple of movies about real people,” Reitman said, “and that’s what happens. You’re interviewing the authentic person. All they want to know is who’s going to play them and whether they’re attractive and how tall they are. And then they watch the movie and they can’t understand it. It’s like silence.” It happens then (…) They are horrified to watch themselves.

What makes this unavoidably surreal experience even more difficult for Chase is that “Saturday Night” doesn’t portray him in a particularly flattering light. He may have been the first star of the show, however Chase was also (and still is) notorious for being difficult to work with Behind the scenes, the film is not ashamed of this side of his personality. The actor who plays Chase, Cory Michael Smith, never spoke to Chase before filming it; It’s a decision that may have been the best creatively, but probably didn’t endear him to the “SNL” alum.

No matter how joking Chase was when he made that harsh remark to Reitman after watching, hopefully Reitman isn’t really embarrassed by the job he did. Chase reportedly was too I struggled to understand why some scenes in “Community” were funnyWhich partly led to his breakup from that TV show as well. When it comes to getting useful creative feedback, Chevy Chase isn’t always the best person to ask.