Chevy Chase Tells Director Jason Reitman About This Movie: "You Should Be Embarrassed"

I wrote this in another post when Saturday Night came out back in October 2024:

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ONE: The Real Dan Ackroyd -- always a great cheerleader for all projects related to him, good for him -- sent out some sort of viral message praising the film highly and noting "I was there that night, that's how it was."

TWO: The Fictional Chevy Chase -- the one in the movie played by Cory Michael Smith -- is attacked, at length and viciously, in long speeches by two characters based on real guys: the Great JK Simmons as Milton Berle ("Mr. Television from the 50s" in the 70s) and Tracy Letts(also good, just not as famous as JK) as veteran SNL writer Herb Sargent.

Both characters tear into Chase and at least one of them predicts his REAL career rise and fall.

Methinks somebody out there wanted to get their revenge on however badly the REAL Chevy Chase treated people back in his SNL heyday.

Unlike as with Mr. Ackroyd, there has been no comment from Mr. Chase...yet.

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Well, all these months later(December/January) it looks like Mr. Chase DID offer a commentary to director Jason Reitman after a screening:

Reitman says Chevy Chase saw a screening awhile ago and:

"...so Chevy comes in to watch the movie, and he is there with his wife Jayni, and they watch the film, and he's in the group, and he comes up to me after, and he pats me on the shoulder and he says 'Well, you should be embarrassed"

Chase said something to Reitman about how "you didn't capture the moment at all," but I suppose Chase REALLY didn't like those TWO scenes where TWO characters give him a tongue-lashing about how he's egotistical and gonna be a failure.

Reitman also reports of others who are portrayed in the movie who saw it:

Billy Crystal was really into it.
Laraine Newman loved it.
Garrett Morris LOVED it(why not? he was made as cool and heroic as Chase was demonized.)
And of course, Dan Ackroyd loved it. (See above.)