After seven years of starring on "Saturday Night Live", comedian Andy Samberg has announced that he will be leaving the show. However, this is not the end to his acting career.
On Friday, "That's My Boy" hits the silver screen and its starring Samberg, alongside Adam Sandler. Again fans can see him in romantic film, "Celeste and Jesse Forever", which comes out in August.
Samberg says that working alongside Sandler, another well-known actor and prior comedian on "Saturday Night Live," was an honor.
"He was my hero since I was, like 13-years-old," Samberg told Reuters. "If you told the 13-yeard-old me that there would be a huge billboard in Times Square of me and Adam Sandler, I'd have smashed my face into the wall with excitement."
Samberg said he was oftentimes compared to Sandler when he first hit the scene as a stand-up comedian. At the start of his SNL career, Samberg received a call from Sandler who was impressed with his work. He would continue to encourage Samberg throughout the years.
Samberg said once he learned of the open opportunity for someone to act as Sandlers young son in the film, he did not hesistate to volunteer himself for the position.
"I called him straight up and was like, 'I would give my life to do this,'" Samberg recalled. "And he said, 'Well, hopefully you won't have to.'"
Samberg plays Todd, a young man who hasn't seen his deadbeat father for years, until he bombards on Todd's wedding weekend.
Following Samberg's end to his SNL career, he is looking forward to his life without the demanding schedule he once had working at the show.
"It was a grueling schedule; you kind of disappear from the world when you work there," he said. "I'll be curious to see how much life changes now."
