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‘Saturday Night’ TIFF Premiere Keeps ‘SNL’ Pic’s Awards Season Momentum Humming
'Saturday Night' TIFF premiere received a rapturous response. Cast and director Jason Reitman spoke on stage about the making of the behind-the-scenes 'SNL' movie.
A multitude of the cast from the Jason Reitman directed pic were in tow at Roy Thomson Hall including Nicholas Braun (who plays Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson in the pic), J.K. Simmons (Milton Berle), Willem Dafoe (NBC exec David Tebet), Matt Wood (John Belushi), Gabriel LaBelle (Lorne Michaels), Lamorne Morris (Garrett Morris), Dylan O’Brien (Dan Aykroyd), Cory Michael Smith (Chevy Chase), Ella Hunt (Gilda Radner) and Rachel Sennott (Rosie Shuster) as well as the pic’s co-scribe and producer Gil Kenan. Reitman gave a shoutout to his casting director, John Papsidera, in assembling the murderer’s row ensemble of actors and actresses. Saturday Night is getting a platform release by Sony starting on Sept 27 in LA, NYC and Toronto, then limited on Oct. 4 before breaking wide on Oct. 11.
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