Willem Dafoe Explains Why It’s Taken Him So Long To Make His ‘SNL’ Hosting Debut
etcanada.comWillem Dafoe has been a major Hollywood star since the late 1980s, thanks to attention-grabbing early roles in such films as “Platoon”, “The Last Temptation of Christ” and “Mississippi Burning”.
Despite maintaining that stardom, it’s only this coming weekend that he’ll be making his hosting debut on “Saturday Night Live”, begging the question: what took so long? READ MORE: Katy Perry Returning To ‘SNL’ As Musical Guest With Host Willem Dafoe Speaking with the “Variety Awards Circuit” podcast, Dafoe offered an explanation why he’s only now getting around to “SNL”. “I think there was never the right combination of things,” he said. “Because it’s nice to pair it to a movie or something.
And yes, I’ve had some successful movies in my career but they aren’t always the ones that you can hang a ‘Saturday Night Live’ appearance on,” he added, joking about what an “Antichrist” sketch might look like.
However, Dafoe appears to have finally entered that sweet spot, considering he’s appeared in five films over the past year, including “The Card Counter”, “The French Dispatch”, “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” and Guillermo Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley”, to say nothing of reprising the Green Goblin in “Spider-Man No Way Home”.
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