Bowen Yang Says 1 ‘SNL’ Host ‘Begged’ For Very Particular Jokes That Later Received Backlash – The Boston Courier

Bowen Yang desires everybody to know that Sydney Sweeney is extraordinarily self-aware.

Earlier this 12 months, “Saturday Night Live” acquired backlash after the “Anyone But You” star hosted the long-running sketch present in March. Many criticized “SNL” for objectifying Sweeney by pandering to her sexiness — with many pointing to at least one sketch by which Sweeney performed a Hooters server.

However in keeping with Yang, that’s precisely how Sweeney needed her stint on “SNL” to go.

“She’s an example of a host who came in and understood how she was being consumed and perceived already,” Yang stated 39 minutes into Wednesday’s episode of David Spade and Dana Carvey’s “Fly on the Wall” podcast.

“She came in and was like, ‘Please, everyone, make jokes about my boobs,’” the “SNL” solid member recalled. “She was practically begging everybody.”

Yang then shared a cute anecdote about taking pictures the digital quick “Bowen’s Straight” with Sweeney.

Within the digital quick, Sweeny performs herself and confesses to “SNL” solid members Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim that she has a crush on Yang.

In response, Gardner and Nwodim inform Sweeney to shoot her shot with Yang, as a result of he’s not homosexual like Sweeney assumed and is “straight as they come.” (Yang is brazenly homosexual in actual life.)

As a result of the sketch ultimately results in a intercourse scene between Yang and Sweeney, Yang advised Spade and Carvey on their podcast Wednesday that the present employed an intimacy coordinator.

Yang recollects letting Sweeney know in regards to the coordinator forward of the shoot and advised her that if she was “uncomfortable” at any level throughout the intercourse scene she might “tap out” or they might lower the scene altogether.

Sweeney’s response to Yang’s concern for her consolation was straight to the purpose — and fairly humorous.

“And she goes, ‘Bowen, I’m on ‘Euphoria,’” Yang recalled.

Sweeney constructed her status as a sexpot in her function as Cassie on “Euphoria” and has carried out a number of nude scenes on the HBO collection — part of her job that she was “timid” to do at first, she advised HuffPost in 2019.

However, 5 years later, Sweeney appears rather more assured partaking in additional risque scenes — and even advised GQ in March that she needed to play up her bombshell rep whereas on “SNL.”

“There’s so many people out there who are like, ‘Oh, she’s famous because she showed her boobs,’” she advised the journal.

“You just learn the system,” she continued, discussing folks’s assumptions about her. “You can try and fight it, but they just fight back. Even if you stand up for yourself, people are going to attack you for standing up for yourself.”