#CHRIS KATTAN NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY MOVIE#

I never wanted to be that person: spending my life debilitated and fighting a network. I had been brought up to be responsible for myself. I never thought about the potential legal ramifications of what had happened to me on the set and what was happening now.

But I never really fought for myself or demanded anything. “The SNL family I was part of had stopped taking care of me, and soon I wasn’t able to pay for everything myself. “NBC had stopped paying my medical costs after the second surgery,” Chris writes in the book. When he tried looking into workers’ compensation years later, he was told it was too late. He finally went to get it checked out a year later after guidance from a chiropractor, though he says he never really asked for help from NBC. Despite his requests for a different chair to make the moment safer, he claims his requests weren’t fulfilled.Īfter experiencing pain in the weeks and months that followed, Chris assumed it would eventually go away. He fell back in his chair as he said was planned and hit his head. The actor, now 48, says that the injury almost paralyzed him and he’s opening up about the years of addiction struggles that came after in his new memoir “Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories and Scars from Saturday Night Live.”Ĭhris provided an excerpt to Variety and opened up to them about the incident, which he says happened during a Golden Girls sketch in the episode.

John Fortenberry ultimately stepped in as director.įor more from Chris‘s memoir, click here.Ĭhris Kattan claims he broke his neck while performing in a sketch on Saturday Night Live back in 2001. I said a polite ‘F–k, no!’ to that, so we ended up going to her office and having sex on… yep, you guessed it, the ‘casting couch.’” “She thought it would be fun to have sex on Lorne’s desk. To this day, whenever I think about that conversation with Lorne, I still feel repellingly pathetic,” he wrote. The last thing I wanted was to have someone hear Lorne say ‘career ender’ about me. He ultimately went through with it: “I was too scared. He reportedly said: “ Chris, I’m not saying you have to f–k her, but it wouldn’t hurt.”

#CHRIS KATTAN NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY MOVIE#

Lorne called him the next day, and said that “Paramount would only do the movie if Amy signed on as a director, not as producer,” and if he “wanted to make sure the movie happened, then had to keep Amy happy.” He “tried to keep it light…the conversation ended there.” One night after working prior to the movie’s filming, she allegedly asked him to have sex. “I was attracted to Amy, but at the same time very afraid of the power she and Lorne wielded over my career,” he wrote. In the memoir, Chris accused Lorne of pressuring him to have sex with A Night At The Roxbury‘s then-director Amy Heckerling to try and keep her attached to the project. The 48-year-old actor opened up in his memoir Baby Don’t Hurt Me: Stories & Scars From Saturday Night Live. Yet time after time, with the exceptions of features like Wayne’s World and The Blues Brothers, SNL often failed to deliver even mediocre comedies out of their once-glorified skits.Chris Kattan is raising an accusation against his former Saturday Night Live boss, Lorne Michaels. To the credit of all SNL films, good and bad, these sketches were classics that showed this promise. Without said fanbase, the film has little influence in proving its saleability to a national movie audience. The initial requirement for adapting five-minute sketches like It’s Pat, Coneheads or Wayne’s World into feature films is a loyal fanbase. SNL has an interesting history with its sketches-turned-movies.

Anyone who wasn’t living in a cave during the mid/late ’90s can recognize the song forever immortalized by Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan’s popular “”Saturday Night Live” skit. Then, the unmistakable song pumps through the speakers: “ What is love? Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me no more,” Haddaway sings in his emotionally tinged dance hit. The Paramount logo kicks up, followed by the opening credits.

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