{"id":211057,"date":"2026-01-01T04:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T04:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:31:08","slug":"chevy-chase-documentary-director-says-snl-star-was-so-rude-in-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/211057\/","title":{"rendered":"Chevy Chase documentary director says SNL star was \u2018so rude\u2019 in interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Chevy has had on-set disputes with SNL\u2019s Terry Sweeney and the entire cast of the NBC comedy Community and Zenovich wanted to \u201cfigure out who was the real\u201d Chevy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">She said: \u201cI wanted to figure out who was the real person behind the conflicted, guarded and somewhat fragile man we see on camera. What was behind the surface of his slightly intimidating superstar bravado? Was there any self-awareness there? Having interviewed Chevy at length, I have to say that yes, it\u2019s all there \u2013 and a whole lot of pain and heartache too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Sweeney \u2013 who made history as Saturday Night Live\u2018s first out gay cast member \u2013 fell out with Chase after he proposed Sweeney appear in an SNL sketch mocking the Aids epidemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The incident is revisited in the doco and Sweeney told The Hollywood Reporter: \u201c\u2026 [he is just] making himself look more like the ass he is!!! It all reflects rightly horribly on him. Boohoo \u2026 poor screwed-up kid \u2026 so THAT\u2019s why he\u2019s so rotten!!!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chevy has had on-set disputes with SNL\u2019s Terry Sweeney and the entire cast of the NBC comedy Community&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3623,9436,128297,3936,859,156,6440,78,5620,57199,24568,111,139,69,95400,128298,312,45415,17509,2737,6736,128299],"class_list":{"0":"post-211057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-celebrity","9":"tag-chase","10":"tag-chevy","11":"tag-director","12":"tag-documentary","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ever","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-interview","17":"tag-interviewed","18":"tag-marina","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-newzealand","21":"tag-nz","22":"tag-rude","23":"tag-rudest","24":"tag-says","25":"tag-snl","26":"tag-so","27":"tag-star","28":"tag-was","29":"tag-zenovich"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211057","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=211057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}