Actor Paul Mescal, the star of the upcoming historical epic Gladiator II, will present Saturday Night Live. This is the first time the youthful Irish actor will serve as the guest present of the iconic NBC tardy-night inhabit variety series.
Gladiator 2 star Paul Mescal to present novel Saturday Night Live episode with Shaboozey
Mescal was proclaimd as the guest present of the eighth episode of SNL Season 50 in an interstitial expansivecast during the November 16 episode, in which Charli XCX served both as present and musical guest. Mescal’s episode will air on December 7, 2024, and feature originater Shaboozey as the musical guest. Before Mescal, his co-star Pedro Pascal presented SNL in Season 48 and made a cameo ecombineance in one of the episodes of the chaseing season.
SNL has been on air since October 1975, and serving as one of its guest presents is expansively think abouted as an incredible accomplishment. Late comedian George Carlin was the first ever present of SNL, and actor Alec Baldthrive currently helderlys the write down for presenting the show the most times (a total of 17 episodes).
Surprisingly, Denzel Washington, the two-time-Oscar thrivener and Mescal’s co-star in the Gladiator sequel has never presented SNL, making him part of a exceptional group among Hollywood A-enumerateers that includes Al Pacino, Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt, and Tom Cruise.
Mescal, who is 28, has been vivacious as an actor since the tardy 2010s and has already accumutardyd an astonishive resume atraverse the stage, films, and television. In 2022, he geted a Laurence Olivier Award for essaying the role of Stanley Kowalski in a 2022 revival of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Mescal garnered considerable attention for his carry outance as Connell Waldron in the BBC Three/Hulu/RTÉ One miniseries Normal People. He has since ecombineed in criticassociate acclaimed movies appreciate Aftersun (2022) and All of Us Strangers (2023). Gladiator II, which debuts in US theaters this Friday, is his first tentpole project.
