Looking back. During Benedict Cumberbatch’s second stint as the host of Saturday Night Live, he couldn’t help but marvel over his career progress — and being in the Dolby Theatre when Will Smith’s Oscars drama went down.“I am thrilled to be back hosting Saturday Night Live.
It’s been a really fun, great week,” the England native, 45, quipped in his Saturday, May 7, monologue. “I’ve got to be honest though because most of the sketch writers this week, they pitched me sketches every day, and most were about Doctor Strange.
It’s great. I love the guy. I love playing the character. The film’s doing really well—but I have been in other films.”The Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness star joked that others rarely asked him about the other projects he’s worked on, including Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog which earned 12 Academy Award nominations earlier this year.“I said, ‘Come on, man.
I was nominated for an Oscar for that,’” Cumberbatch recalled telling show producer Lorne Michaels about the 2021 film. “I mean, I didn’t win.
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