"I just spent, like, two years of my life re-creating this moment and trying to capture Chevy perfectly," the filmmaker said

During a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast, the director revealed Chevy Chase ‘s reaction to the movie, prefacing, “Chevy loves to say the thing you’re not supposed to say.” The film follows the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of SNL in 1975.

I think Chevy Chase did too. To be clear, it’s not important to me that Chase liked the flick. The infamous curmudgeon/jerk/racist is lucky a generation’s worth of tall white dudes see him as a comedy icon.

Chevy Chase had some choice words about the Saturday Night Live origin movie, Saturday Night. Director Jason Reitman shared Chase’s reaction to the film on a recent episode of Dana Carvey and David Spade’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast.

I’m trying to balance it because in my head I know I’m getting a Chevy Chase moment that’s one thousand percent only for me right now and from a comedy point of view, tha

Chevy Chase gave Saturday Night director Jason Reitman his own 'Chevy Chase was a jerk to me' story after watching the SNL biopic.

M aking a movie about the institution that is Saturday Night Live has to be challenging. For starters, the audience comes to the movie with its own preconceived notions about the