SNL forged member Kenan Thompson talks competing with Anthony Anderson for lots of roles as each stars had been auditioning within the 90s.
Kenan Thompson has carved fairly a comedy profession for himself, having began on Nickelodeon’s All That to being one in every of Saturday Evening Stay‘s most seasoned cast members. As he grew up in the 90s, he starred on Kenan & Kel as a teen and started to venture into movies. Meanwhile, around the same time, Anthony Anderson, who is quite a veteran of many TV and film projects himself, starred in the Saturday morning teen sitcom Hang Time on NBC. Thompson would reveal that when he auditioned for roles in that era, one name that constantly followed him around was Anderson’s.
Individuals Journal spoke with Kenan Thompson on the podcast, PEOPLE within the ‘90s, where he explained, “Anthony Anderson, I would always see his name on the list. Whether I would see him at the actual audition or not, he was always in the running.” Thompson added, “We’ve been in the identical conversations for characters, most likely in lots of issues all through the ‘90s for sure.” And while they both managed to successfully pave their own paths, Thompson would show admiration for Anderson’s filmography. He talked about that his favourite movie of Anderson’s was The Departed, as a result of, “I know what that movie did for his career. Before that, he was the go-to guy for Barbershop and comic relief roles. But The Departed was like, ‘Oh s—, this guy’s in a [Martin] Scorsese movie. Then, very soon after that, Law & Order. I love him to death. He’s my brother.”
Whereas a era of children knew him immediately from his Nickelodeon reveals, the Good Burger star says his fame was “slow-going.” Thompson defined that when he went to school, he wasn’t acknowledged practically as a lot as when he was youthful, “Nickelodeon just took a while because it was cable, it was a smaller show. I was going to college and it was blowing up, nobody in college was watching Nickelodeon. I was famous early-ish if I would go to Chuck E. Cheese. It was little kids at the time and the show was out and it was fresh.”
After reuniting with Kel Mitchell on Good Burger 2, Thompson undoubtedly sees it as a path to extra team-ups, “It would be only right for us to continue to go explore what Kenan and Kel could have been when we were in our 20s when we left Nickelodeon and decided to try to figure it out, instead of just automatically doing the Abbott and Costello thing. Now that we’re older and sharper and wiser and this that and the other, we can do it at such a high level on so many different outlets or whatever. We know so much now. There’s so many different parts to the business. There’s so many different opportunities and we’re just ready to tackle all of that. So it’s very exciting, I think, especially when we’ll be able to own it.”
