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‘Saturday Night’ Star Gabriel LaBelle on Playing Lorne Michaels and Trying Not to ‘F— Everything Up’ in the ‘SNL’ Movie
The actor hopes he doesn't "f--- everything up" with his portrayal of SNL creator Lorne Michaels in Jason Reitman's upcoming "Saturday Night" film.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Reitman explained that having a 21-year-old LaBelle play Michaels, who was 30 when “SNL” started, added to the sense that the character is in over his head. Alongside LaBelle, the film’s ensemble cast includes Dylan O’Brien (Aykroyd), Cory Michael Smith (Chase), Rachel Sennott (Rosie Shuster), Lamorne Morris (Morris), Nicholas Braun (Jim Henson), Finn Wolfhard (an NBC page), Jon Batiste (Preston), Ella Hunt (Radnor), Cooper Hoffman (Ebersol), Andrew Barth Feldman (Neil Levy), Naomi McPherson (Ian), Willem Dafoe (David Tebet), J.K. Simmons (Milton Berle) and Kaia Gerber (Jacqueline Carlin), among others. When asked if hosting “Saturday Night Live” might be in the cards for him (perhaps the Oct. 12 episode, which coincides with the Sony movie’s Oct. 11 release date), LaBelle said that he’d love the opportunity.
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