Jake Gyllenhaal is your Host for the Season 49 finale of Saturday Night Live — and for the Road House actor it feels like “graduation.”
“It’s the season finale right before Season 50, which is… amazing. Being on the show has always been a dream,” Gyllenhaal told NBC’s Mark Barger in a new interview. “I got to do it for the first time, do it again, and then the finale feels like some sort of graduation of having been able to survive and do it. It’s an honor. It’s a great honor.”
When the 43-year-old, who previously hosted SNL on January 13, 2007, and most recently on April 9, 2022, is asked what he remembers about his first time hosting he says, “I remember my very first monologue, I remember singing Dreamgirls, and I remember having a dress on underneath a suit. And I remember hoping, so hoping that it wouldn’t reveal until the moment.”
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