After being noticed doing stand-up by producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. and contacted to audition for a teen horror sex comedy being developed by The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Carrey landed a starring role in "Once Bitten" shot in early 1985. The young impressionist comic would continue getting film roles; throughout late summer and early fall 1985, he shot a supporting part in Francis Ford Coppola's "Peggy Sue Got Married" which then went into a long post-production process. In parallel, he decided to try out for "Saturday Night Live" again, this time ahead of the show's 1985-86 season being prepared by returning executive producer Lorne Michaels who was looking to hire an all-new cast. Five years removed from his previous "SNL" audition, twenty-three-year-old Carrey got rejected again, reportedly never even getting the chance to audition his material—'post-nuclear Elvis' hybrid impression and impersonation of Henry Fonda from "On Golden Pond"—in front of executive producer Michaels due to the show's producers and senior writers Al Franken, Tom Davis, and Jim Downey deciding that Michaels wouldn't like it. Unlike his previous "SNL" rejection, Carrey now had a bit of a movie career to fall back on in addition to his impressionist stand-up act; "Once Bitten" was released in mid November 1985 and turned out to be a modest box-office hit despite drawing poor reviews.