Adrien Brody isn’t fairly positive what to consider hypothesis that his infamous “Saturday Night Live” efficiency obtained him completely banned from the sketch present.
Brody hosted “SNL” solely as soon as, on Could 10, 2003, however throughout his remaining process of introducing Jamaican musical visitor Sean Paul, the actor appeared in pretend dreadlocks — and spent a whopping 41 seconds asserting Paul in a Jamaican accent.
“They were all literally agape from me pitching,” Brody instructed Vulture in a latest profile.
The second lately resurfaced on social media to shocked reactions, with some noting that Brody mentioned, “kill a batty boy” — a slur in Jamaican Patois for homosexual or effeminate males — in his intro, which prompted rumors on-line that he was banned from “SNL” because of this.
Brody hasn’t been again in 22 years, in any case. However he instructed Vulture that “SNL” producers gave him the wig and watched him do the bit with out objection throughout a previous gown rehearsal.
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Brody wagered that “SNL” creator Lorne Michaels was probably upset regardless.
“I think Lorne wasn’t happy with me embellishing a bit, but they allowed me to,” he instructed Vulture. “I thought that was a safe space to do that, weirdly.”
Brody delivered a virtually indecipherable intro for Paul that evening. Wearing a tank high, dreadlocks and a sweat armband, he totally dedicated to the bit, beginning by sputtering a sequence of “ya mons” on air in a pseudo-Jamaican accent.
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The actor had gained an Oscar for his acclaimed efficiency in “The Pianist” (2002) mere months earlier, and whereas he instructed Vulture that he wasn’t banned from “SNL,” he then admitted he wasn’t truly positive.
“I also have never been invited back on,” he instructed Vulture. “So I don’t know what to tell you.”
