Jake Gyllenhaal Belts Celine Dion During ‘Saturday Night Live’ Return: ‘Everything Is Suddenly Coming Back’

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Sing out, Jake! Jake Gyllenhaal returned to the Saturday Night Live stage with a musical trick up his sleeve.The Ambulance star, 41, belted out Celine Dion’s “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” number during the Saturday, April 9, episode after noting that he thought his variety series return would be difficult the second time around.“I never thought SNL would come calling again,” Gyllenhaal began his monologue. “I mean, it’s been 15 years and I wasn’t sure I’d remember how to host, but being here tonight it feels like everything is suddenly coming back.”During the Brokeback Mountain star’s musical performance, he was joined by cast members Chloe Fineman, Ego Nwodim and Cecily Strong on background vocals.

The women’s burgundy dresses paid homage to his January 2007 hosting debut. (Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, for their parts, wore similar dresses when they sang backup for Gyllenhaal.)“I am so excited to be back at SNL.

The last time I hosted was the year 2007. You know how long ago that was? That was like 400 Marvel movies ago,” the California native joked about his NBC return. “To give you an idea of what it was like in 2007, in the show I hosted, there was a [President] George W.

Bush sketch, there were jokes about the first iPhone, and this is a photo of me from my monologue …There I am in full drag, singing a song from Dreamgirls, to promote a movie where I played a gay cowboy.