Willem Dafoe made his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut this weekend, and referenced launching his acting career in NYC during his monologue.
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Willem Dafoe is this week’s host of Saturday Night Live, riding the massive success of Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Joining him to light the fuse for SNL’s traditional promo video was musical guest Katy Perry and cast member Chris Redd. They strain to rein in the overly enthusiastic Dafoe, who is so amped that he doesn’t care if he’s doing a sketch or a promo piece.
Later, after alluding to a possible past hookup between Perry and Redd, Dafoe claims he’s had a premonition that his SNL hosting duties will be “the best night of my life.” He even has the cool sunglasses to prove it.
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Willem Dafoe made his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut this weekend, and referenced launching his acting career in NYC during his monologue.
Katy Perry has appeared on Saturday Night Live – watch her performance below.The episode, which was hosted by actor Willem Dafoe, marked Perry’s fourth time performing on the late night sketch show, after appearances in 2010, 2013 and 2017.Perry performed ‘When I’m Gone’, her recent electro-pop collaboration with Swedish DJ Alesso.Perry also brought audiences a taste of her recent Vegas residency to SNL, in a performance that saw her backed by a bunch of dancing, phallic-like toadstools who waved at fans and told them to “eat me” during the show.Perry later returned to perform ballad, ‘Never Really Over’, this time alone on stage.You can watch both performances below:Perry’s Las Vegas residency kicked off on December 29, taking over The Theatre at Resorts World resort/casino until mid-March. The opening night of the over-the-top show saw Perry roll out a 16-foot-tall toilet, ride a giant snail and more.Speaking about the production to GMA, Perry said: “A lot of my shows have been figuratively larger than life.
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Katy Perry is taking over the Saturday Night Live stage!
Willem Dafoe is making his Saturday Night Live debut!
Willem Dafoe tonight made his debut as host of Saturday Night Live, speaking in his monologue about his excitement about returning to New York, where his career as an actor began.
Willem Dafoe, has had one of the most celebrated careers in Hollywood with four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Supporting Actor in 1987’s Platoon and one for Best Actor for playing Vincent Van Gogh in 2019’s At Eternity’s Gate. The 66-year-old Wisconsin native found a new legion of fans as the supervillain Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the original Tobey MacGuire Spider-Man trilogy, as well as in the most recent edition of the Marvel web-crawler franchise, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
Many of us know Willem Dafoe, 66, from his slew of character-driven performances and memorable roles. The actor, who has received various accolades and award nominations, is perhaps best know for roles like the supervillain Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the Spider-Man franchise as well as his work with various auteurs like Wes Anderson, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, and more.
Willem Dafoe will be making his hosting debut on this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live”, and he’ll be joined by musical guest Katy Perry.
Bon appétit for Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom! Ahead of the singer’s appearance on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, the engaged pair squeezed in a date night in New York City on Thursday at celebrity Italian staple Carbone.
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom! Ahead of the singer's appearance on this weekend, the engaged pair squeezed in a date night in New York City on Thursday at celebrity Italian staple Carbone. For their night out on the town, both stars put a fashionable foot forward, Bloom in a denim blue ensemble and Perry in head-to-toe camel corduroy, a stark change from the leather, oxblood-hued outfit and black fur coat she was photographed in while spotted in Midtown. And what would date night be without some romance? «Orlando is such a gentleman, he opened the doors for her, held her hand, and led her into and out of the restaurant,» an eyewitness told ET. «They still seem very much in the honeymoon phase!» While they are parents to 1-year-old daughter Daisy, the infant did not join them for dinner.
Willem Dafoe is making his hosting debut and he's ready to have the «best night of his entire life.» And if the new promo for his upcoming episode is any indication, the star is planning to bring some of that villainous charm to the iconic studio 8H stage with him.Dafoe was joined by 's Chris Reed — as well as this week's musical guest, Katy Perry — where he couldn't help but share his excitement at hosting for the first time.«Oh man, I love this sketch already,» Dafoe says with a chuckle. «Oh no, Willem, this is just a promo,» Reed responds.
Katy Perry looks so fierce in this outfit!
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThough he’s been an acclaimed actor for five decades, earned four Oscar nominations and starred in several blockbusters, Willem Dafoe will take on a new challenge this weekend when he hosts “Saturday Night Live” for the first time Jan. 29.The announcement was met with massive enthusiasm online, with many people expressing disbelief Dafoe had never hosted before.
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