Saturday evening Filmmaker Jason Reitman received a fairly critical review for his film from one of the originals SNL Actor.

During a recent episode of the Fly on the wall In the podcast, the director revealed Chevy Chase’s reaction to the film, opening: “Chevy loves to say what you shouldn’t say.” The film follows the chaotic 90 minutes before the premiere of SNL in 1975.

“So Chevy comes in to watch the movie and he’s there with (wife) Jayni and they’re watching the movie and he’s in the group and he comes up to me afterwards and taps me on the shoulder and says, ‘Well, you should be embarrassed,'” Reitman recalled to hosts David Spade and Dana Carvey.

As everyone burst out laughing, Spade said, “You couldn’t even write it better.” Carvey added that Chase “knows that’s funny, like that’s the hardest thing you can say to a director right now, or completely above.”

Reitman explained that in the moment he was trying to rationalize Chase’s comments. “I’m trying to balance that because in my head I know, ‘Okay, I’m having my own Chevy Chase moment that’s 1,000 percent just for me right now.’ And from a comedic perspective, it’s really pure and kind of cool,” he said. “But I also just spent two years of my life recreating that moment and trying to capture Chevy perfectly and also finding the humanity in the ego and giving it a moment of being loved — no, none of that mattered “He doesn’t talk about that stuff.”

Saturday evening The film starred Cory Michael Smith as Chase, Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman and Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, Matt Wood as John Belushi, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol, Nicholas Braun as Andy Kaufman/Jim Henson and Willem Dafoe as David Tebet.

Reitman said that when it came to casting each role, he “tried to bring out one thing about each character,” and for Chase, it was “an ego that needed to be humbled.”