The actor, 75, opens up about her late co-star's drug addiction and the impact it had on their working relationship in the early years of the show.
Looking back on her days as one of the original stars of"Saturday Night Live," Jane Curtin says working with one original castmember in particular wasn't always a pleasant experience.and shed new light on the addiction issues her co-star John Belushi battled before his death by drug overdose in 1982. He was 33 at the time.Curtin was quick to note that the problems originated because of the addiction Belushi was battling.John Belushi and Jane Curtin on "Saturday Night Live.
“I had a life — a dog, a husband, an apartment with a little garden. It was a life I really enjoyed,” she said.“John, obviously, he could party with the best of them, but the next day these guys were just so miserable. Plus, the 90 minutes on the show were so exciting and adrenaline-pumping, I felt all the other stuff was self-indulgent and seemed hard,” she said.she cringed a bit when she watched her old episodes of"SNL" with her family a few years ago.
"We were sent the five year compilation video of 'Saturday Night Live's' first five years a few years ago, and I gave one to my daughter,” she said. “We were out visiting her daughter one Christmas, and her husband said, ‘Have you ever watched any of these? And I said, ‘God, I haven’t seen them in a long time.’""It wasn’t funny. Not one thing was funny. There was not one utterance of a laugh or a giggle," she said.
"I think it was just one of those, you had to be there in the moment things," she added."That’s what happens with live TV, and with topical TV. It gets dated after a while. Remember, this was almost 50 years ago. But after we rewatched, I was like, ‘That really wasn’t a very good show. It was terrible!’"
There are a few skits that Curtin remembers fondly, including one featuring Dan Aykroyd pitching a kitchen appliance made for blending bass.
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