Actor Paul Mescal, the star of the upcoming historic epic Gladiator II, will host Saturday Night Live. That is the primary time the younger Irish actor will function the visitor host of the long-lasting NBC late-night reside selection collection.
Gladiator 2 star Paul Mescal to host new Saturday Night time Reside episode with Shaboozey
Mescal was introduced because the visitor host of the eighth episode of SNL Season 50 in an interstitial broadcast throughout the November 16 episode, wherein Charli XCX served each as host and musical visitor. Mescal’s episode will air on December 7, 2024, and have producer Shaboozey because the musical visitor. Earlier than Mescal, his co-star Pedro Pascal hosted SNL in Season 48 and made a cameo look in one of many episodes of the next season.
SNL has been on air since October 1975, and serving as one in every of its visitor hosts is broadly thought to be an unbelievable accomplishment. Late comic George Carlin was the primary ever host of SNL, and actor Alec Baldwin at present holds the file for internet hosting the present essentially the most instances (a complete of 17 episodes).
Surprisingly, Denzel Washington, the two-time-Oscar winner and Mescal’s co-star within the Gladiator sequel has by no means hosted SNL, making him a part of a uncommon group amongst Hollywood A-listers that features Al Pacino, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, and Tom Cruise.
Mescal, who’s 28, has been energetic as an actor because the late 2010s and has already gathered a powerful resume throughout the stage, movies, and tv. In 2022, he earned a Laurence Olivier Award for essaying the position of Stanley Kowalski in a 2022 revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Want. Mescal garnered appreciable consideration for his efficiency as Connell Waldron within the BBC Three/Hulu/RTÉ One miniseries Regular Folks. He has since appeared in critically acclaimed films like Aftersun (2022) and All of Us Strangers (2023). Gladiator II, which debuts in US theaters this Friday, is his first tentpole undertaking.
