Billy Crystal says being cut from the premiere episode of 'Saturday Night Live' in 1975 was 'one of the hardest nights' — but he still saved the script and shared it with the 'Saturday Night' movie team.
"To sit through the movie and see someone play me on a hard night was a little hard," Crystal said of "Saturday Night."."It was one of the hardest nights in my young career, to be bumped from the very first show, because my piece was a little long," he recalled."The first show was hectic and I ended up not being there, and it just set my career off in a different way.
Kenan recalled Crystal's revelation with fondness. "It happened so dramatically — we didn't know he had it," the screenwriter said. "It was one of the few in-person interviews we did, and we asked about the script as a sort of passing question like we did to everybody. And he said, 'Hang on a second,' walked into a study, came back out and just dropped it on the table in front of us.
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