Billy Crystal unexpectedly provided 'Saturday Night' filmmakers with an essential piece of 'SNL' history: 'The last person we expected to want to hold onto a memory of that night.'
" the last person we expected to want to hold onto a memory of that night," director Jason Reitman tells EW.
Reitman sees Michaels' original intention of hosting the show's tentpole news segment — and his eventual resignation from it before the show went live — as the key to understanding the superproducer's personality. "That unlocked a lot for us, because there's a moment where you realize you're not the performer, you're the producer," he says. "You're not the kid, you're dad.
However, Reitman and Kenan never wanted their intensive research to yield an exact beat-for-beat cinematic account of every single detail that transpired on premiere night; rather, they sought to gather as much information as possible to most accurately depict the atmosphere, interpersonal dynamics, and intense emotions leading up to the firstep.
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