Ryan Gosling can't let go of his character Ken barbie between him saturday night live monologue.
He initially said he wouldn't talk about Ken because he spoke “too deeply” to them and they broke up, but he ended up singing about his feelings while singing Taylor Swift's hit “All Too Well.” I made it. ”
“When you play a character that hard and for so long, just letting go feels like a breakup, and there's really only one thing that helps you process a breakup: the music of the great Taylor Swift.” la la land the actor said.
Gosling continued singing, “It's true that I shredded Venice Beach / The clothes were tight / But something about that spandex felt so right / I left my rollerblades in that big pink house / But I still have that fur coat and I'm going to wear it.'It's now (cue him wearing the iconic Ken coat).''
“If I say I'm fine, you know I'd be lying because I was just Ken and now I'm just Ryan,” he continued.
Emily Blunt then cut Gosling off in the middle of his song, upset (jokingly) that he was still singing about Ken when she was supposed to be promoting a new movie. fall guy. “What are you doing?” she asked, adding that they had plans to do “a lot of stunts.”
Blunt told the actor, “I was going to hit you and now you're singing about Ken again.” “Look, you're a kenning now, I hate that it's even a verb. I resented it. Take off your fur coat. You're embarrassing yourself.”
After a sigh from the audience, oppenheimer The actress added, “Guys, I don't mean to be harsh, but Ryan, you have to move on. It's time.”
Gosling seemed to agree, but quickly said, “I can't go on anymore,” and opened his mouth with another song. “We're on the Technicolor beach again/We didn't win an Oscar, we just didn't get it/I've been there/I bleached my blonde hair/Now it's time to say goodbye to Ken.” he sang just before Blunt hit him. Head with a bottle.
“That's how it goes,” she said, to which Gosling yelled back, “What do you mean, Emily?”
“You were a stuntman. [in The Fall Guy] And then hit it and see how cool it was,” Brandt said. But just as Gosling was about to add that she thought both Ken and the stunts were “pretty cool,” she hit the actor with a chair.
“Ken is dead. Okay, Ken is dead.” the devil wears prada the actress exclaimed.
but, nice guys The actor went on to recall their “Babenheimer phenomenon” last summer and asked Blunt if he ever misses his Oscar-winning film. oppenheimer movie. And it's safe to say she does, as the two went on to sing their version of “All Too Well” together.
“We were Kitty and Ken/You wanted to see us/You were loyal till the end/And your man didn't have a dick,” Gosling and Blunt sang. “I have a confession to make / We’re such a mess at impressing / It’s time to say goodbye to both Ken and Kitty.”
Before, SNL In the cold open, Kate McKinnon also returned for another iconic “Close Encounters” sketch with Gosling. Sarah Sherman, Bowen Yang, and Mikey Day also appeared in the skit.
McKinnon's Colleen Rafferty, Gosling's Todd, and Sherman once again told the story of being abducted by aliens, except this time, Colleen revealed that the alien was Todd's private part, or as she also called it, “Troll's Nose.” , demonstrated how aliens are interested.
“Just to be clear, I wasn't excited,” Todd, who plays Gosling, said. “Whenever I wanted to, I was here staring at Colleen.”
McKinnon, Gosling, and Cecily Strong released the first “Close Encounters” sketch in December 2015, in which Gosling's and Strong's characters recount positive interactions with aliens. However, McKinnon's character hilariously portrayed his not-so-fun interactions with them.
The trio reprized their characters in October 2017 for another memorable sketch about an alien abduction.
Later in the show, basketball star Caitlin Clark made a surprise appearance on “Weekend Update” to slam Michael Che for his sexist jokes.
“The University of Iowa announced that basketball star Caitlin Clark will retire her jersey and replace it with an apron,” Professor Choi said before introducing Clark ahead of Monday's WNBA Draft.
“By the way, I'm a fan, Kaitlyn,” the comedian added, to which the former Iowa Hawkeyes player immediately responded, “Really, Michael?” Because I heard your little apron joke. ”
Gosling hosted the sketch comedy show for the third time on Saturday with musical guest Chris Stapleton.