Timothée Chalamet celebrates end of strike on Saturday Night Live

The actor took on the role of Martin Scorsese and was finally able to promote Wonka. He also distinguished himself with a bad joke about Hamas…

After 118 days of movement, the strike is over in Hollywood. Actors can once again promote their films, and Timothée Chalamet took advantage of his invitation to Saturday Night Live to tease the upcoming release of Wonka (December 13 in France), but also that of the sequel to Dunewhich was scheduled to arrive in theaters on November 1 and has been pushed back to March 13, 2024.

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In the traditional opening monologue, Chalamet said he was relieved to be able to present his 2nd SNL after the end of the strike (the first time was in the middle of Covid). “Until two days ago the only thing I was allowed to talk about was my upcoming publicity. It’s a spot for a perfume made by Martin Scorsese. When Martin Scorsese calls you to offer you a role, the first thing you say to yourself is: ‘dude, I’m really trying, it’s for a perfume commercial’.”

The star then launched into a song, to the tune of “Pure Imagination”, celebrating this return to normal: “Come with me, you’ll be in a world of shameless self-promotion“. Before advertising for the release of Wonka and pre-sales already available on the Fandango website, then cite the releases of Killers of the Flower Moon And Dune part 2. Joined by Marcello Hernandez, he followed up with a rap, like in the heyday of Lil Timmy T, the famous alter ego he created in high school.

Timothée Chalamet performed the sketches during this Saturday Nigt Live. We saw him parody Troye Sivan, put on fake muscles, play the Moon and a storyteller to sleep angry, get spanked by Kenan Thompson and even make a Martin Scorsese face during an audition to become the narrator of the audiobook of the biography of Britney Spears. Except that for French Internet users, he looked more like… Eric Zemmour.

Another sketch stood out, but not for good reasons. A bad joke about Hamas, in a sequence produced with the trio of comedians from Please Don’t Destroy, provoked the anger of many Internet users on social networks.