The SAG Awards, which was livestreaming tonight on Netflix from Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, paid tribute to actor’s roots in every little thing from cleaning soap operas to commercials to Regulation & Order. It additionally spotlighted reunions galore, together with for collection New Girl, Gossip Girl, The X Files and The Good Place (a la Challengers), in addition to Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
The fete kicked off with a shock reunion between host Kristen Bell and The Good Place co-stars Ted Danson and William Jackson Harper, who paid homage to the steamy triumvirate in Luca Guadagnino’s tennis drama Challengers.
Later within the night, Bell was spotted at the bar alongside former Forgetting Sarah Marshall co-star Jason Segel. The 2 paid a winking homage to the movie’s breakup scene, wherein Segel will get dumped by Bell’s TV starlet character whereas totally nude. “It doesn’t actually have the identical impact with the towel over your pants,” Bell stated as Segel recreated the second, shimmying in a towel — this time with a go well with on beneath.
In the meantime, The X Recordsdata stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reunited onstage to current Excellent Efficiency by a Forged in a Drama Collection, reigniting devoted followers’ ardour for the chemistry between their on-screen characters Mulder and Scully. “Ensemble, I consider that’s a French phrase which means, ‘Thank God I solely must work three days every week,” Duchovny joked.
The 2 re-teamed to earn laughs about how they “nonetheless acquired it,” with Duchovny highlighting “timing” and Anderson pointing to “chemistry” because the prerequisite qualities for an important efficiency. “We did so good — we did that so nicely,” Anderson quipped.
Additionally reuniting onstage had been New Lady alums Zooey Deschanel and Max Greenfield, gently teasing co-star Lamorne Morris for being too booked and busy to communicate with them following his Emmy win for Fargo. (The place’s Jake Johnson while you want him?)
Presenting the comedy ensemble accolade, Greenfield joked, “Share with one another your love, share with one another your gratitude and share with one another how a lot cash you guys make per episode, plus any raises that got after a number of seasons, that’s necessary.”
Beating itself to its personal Gossip Lady reunion by way of Season 2 of Netflix’s Nobody Wants This, the streamer additionally united Bell with the one and solely Blair Waldorf, Leighton Meester. Within the hilarious bit, Bell placed on her signature poison-laced voiceover from the HBO dramedy to narrate mundane scenes from the SAG Awards ground, to the bemusement of topics Jeff Goldblum and Timothée Chalamet.
“Noticed at Desk 8, Jeff Goldblum has a depraved urge for food, and a peak backstage reveals he likes his inexperienced eggs with ham. And look who it’s, not so lonely boy, Timothée Chalamet, sitting subsequent to a sizzling steak, medium-rare, au poivre with a facet of broccoli — wait, what are you, Leighton, none of that is gossip, it’s simply all about meals,” Bell stated.
Meester, who will be part of the second season of the rom-com collection as a center faculty nemesis of Bell’s character, apologized, main her co-star to segue to what she lovingly referred to as “Gossip Lady 2.0”: “The popes in Conclave had been higher at gossiping than us. I believe we must always go the torch,” she stated, to which Meester responded merely, “Amen.”
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