She added: \u201cLorne Michaels called me and he said, I really need you to show up. I really, really need this. Rudy Giuliani\u2019s gonna be here.<\/p>\n
The actress was just 24 and a new mum when she hosted the live show. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the firefighters are gonna be here. Paul Simon is gonna sing. I just need you to come out and do something a little light and tell America, \u2018You can\u2019t feel sad. We gotta laugh again. We\u2019ve got to get back the national spirit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The appearance came after the huge success of Legally Blonde, while she was a new mother and had a lot on her plate.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI was 24. I also had a baby. I had a one-year-old. I was a new mom. I had the biggest movie come out that summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if you know me, if I tell you I\u2019m going to do something, I mean there has to be a real disaster…<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did it and it was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reese admitted the experience put her off returning to SNL for well over a decade.<\/p>\n
She explained: \u201cI completely left my body. And did not go again for 15 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
She kept her opening monologue \u201clight\u201d as requested, but some people on staff felt she should have acknowledged 9\/11 instead of avoiding the topic.<\/p>\n
Then-writer Hugh Fink previously told Rolling Stone magazine: \u201cNot only was she not addressing 9\/11, but, we\u2019re going in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not saying terrorism. We\u2019re having a host that\u2019s telling an old joke about a polar bear.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, then-New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani made a speech with local police and firefighters by his side, and Paul Simon gave an emotional rendition of The Boxer.<\/p>\n
When she returned in 2015, Reese told Yahoo! News: \u201cI was so proud to be there and be on stage with firemen and Paul Simon.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Lorne Michaels, I think, did an incredible job getting that show back on its feet and making America laugh again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: \u201cLorne Michaels called me and he said, I really need you to show up. I really,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83751,74,5660,156,1888,187,4960,5969,111,139,2551,69,1118,21411,29541,29369,83752,1534,312,45415,6173,40391],"class_list":["post-118416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-83751","tag-after","tag-attacks","tag-entertainment","tag-first","tag-hosting","tag-live","tag-much","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-night","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-pressure","tag-recalls","tag-reese","tag-responsibility","tag-saturday","tag-says","tag-snl","tag-too","tag-witherspoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}