Marcello Hernandez is opening up about his rise to fame! The 26-year-old Saturday Night Live breakout star got candid in a new cover story for Variety, out now.
During the discussion, he talked about his childhood in Miami, his relationship with his mother, his time on SNL, and interacting with Lorne Michaels. Keep reading to find out more… On how his childhood in Miami—including his relationship with his mother—influenced his sketches, particularly his SNL sketch “Nightclub Line”: “A lot of the jokes I say and the stuff that I write has to do with our relationships growing up. [My mother] went through a lot to get to the U.S.
and to make a name and a world for herself, so I respect her very much and I trust her judgment…In Miami, you grow up fast, because there’s so much clubbing that people are doing.
When you’re young, you’re like, ‘I want to do that.’ Miami is like a ‘fake ID, go when you’re 17’ kind of place. You get caught a lot.
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