Chevy Chase There were some choice words about Saturday Night Live Origin Movie, SSaturday night.

director Jason Reitman shared Chase's reaction to the film in its latest episode Wings curve And David Spadeof Podcast "Wall on the Wall". Setting the scene for the story, Carvey, 69, joked: "Chevy likes to say things you don't want to say, to the extreme, where it can go where it wants to go."

Reitman, 47, began by noting that he had known Chase, 81, "my whole life" and had grown up as a friend to his children. "So, Chevy comes to the movies, and he's there with (his wife). Jayni And they watch the film,” he explains. "And he's on the team, and he comes up to me afterwards and he taps me on the shoulder and goes, 'Well, you should be embarrassed'"

The comment drew laughs from both Carvey and Spade, 60, the latter of whom said: “What a proper Chevy thing. You couldn't write it any better. How funny."

Carvey, meanwhile, added: "He knows it's funny, like, 'Okay, that's the hardest thing you can say to a director at that point.'

After reviewing Chase, 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 for me right now. And from a comedic standpoint, it's really authentic and it's kind of cool,'" he said. "However, I spent two years of my life trying to recreate this moment and perfectly capture the way Chevy, and even in the ego, find the humanity and give him a moment to love — no, none of that s— played. He Not talking about this stuff."

Spade, for his part, wasn't even sure how much of Chase's comment was comedy and how much was true. “It's a fun thing to say, but then, you have to look at the meter and go, 'What percentage was real? Was it a joke, or is he just not happy?'” she said. "But you don't know and he's gone, and you go, 'Well, he saw it.'"

saturday nightwhich hit theaters in October, followed by its cast and crew SNL The show's first broadcast in October 1975 was a fun and engaging 90 minutes. Corey Michael Smith Also played a younger version of Chase in the film Kaia Gerber As Chase's girlfriend at the time Jacqueline Carlin.

Gabriel Labelle Recently scored a goal 2025 Golden Globe nominations For his performance as producer of the show, Lorne Michaels. There is also a cast Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Dylan O'Brien as and Aykroyd, Matt Wood as John Belushi, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Emily Fearon as Laraine Newman, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Rachel Sennett as Rosie Shuster And Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersole.

Reitman shared his story after the co-director Chris Columbus to say Vanity Fair That he quit working in 1989 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation After meeting with Chase.

“I talked about how I saw the movie, how I wanted to make the movie. He didn't say anything," Columbus told the outlet in an interview published Dec. 23. “I spoke for about half an hour. He didn't say a word. … Forty minutes into the meeting, he said, 'Wait a second. Are you the director?' And I said, 'Yes... I'm directing the film.' … He said, 'Oh, I thought you were a drummer.'

He continued: “I left dinner and I thought, 'There No way I can make movies First of all, she is not engaged to this guy. He is treating me like an S. I don't need this. I would rather not work again. I would rather write.'