“Saturday Night Live” is one of the longest-running entertainment shows in American television history. Its broadcast began in 1975, and now the 48th season of production is being broadcast. The formula consists in the fact that the regular cast, together with a special guest of the episode, performs successive sketches and genre scenes live in front of the audience gathered in a studio in New York. will host its episode on March 11, 2023.
Jenna Ortega no longer wants to do the Wednesday dance
The episode featuring Ortega is preceded by a short sketch. It starts with a shot of the actress looking at the script and saying, “This is really well written, but I don’t feel like filming a dance for a promo. We’ve seen it so many times, it’s time to do something new,” and stops. At this point, the close-up camera cuts to wide, and it turns out that John Higgins, Ben Marshall and Martin Herlihy are standing next to Jenny Ortega. All in wigs and dresses – obviously dressed as Wednesday. One by one they answer: No, of course, we don’t want to record this dance either.
When Ortega points out that they are all disguised, they reply: Really? Is this from your show? What are you talking about? Wendnesday Addams or more like Thursday Jones – I don’t even know what it is. I might ask why you’re dressed like a journalist from the 70s.
Finally, one of them emphasizes: It would not be a dream come true for us if we could dance this routine with you. So let’s just not do it then. I don’t even know the routine,” adds the second, who happens to be repeating the exact moves from the stage. Eventually, Ortega breaks down and agrees. He dances with John Higgins and Ben Marshall, and Martin Herlihy records it on his phone:
At the very end, Ortega asks Martin if he changed his clothes just to film his friends dancing with her. “Damn it,” he replies.
Viewers are delighted with the video: “I love how bored his face is when he dances with them”, “It’s a dedication to recreate the hair, makeup and outfit right”, “These guys are great. I can’t stop laughing”, ” This dance here seems even more Wednesday than what they showed on the show”, “This is hilarious,” they write in the comments.
“Saturday Night Live” over the years has won, among others, 71 Emmy Awards and over 250 nominations for this award. The episode with Jenna Ortega will be broadcast by NBC on its television channel, as well as on the Peacock platform. Fortunately, later all the sketches will be uploaded to the program’s YouTube channel, where you can watch them without any problems.
Jenna Ortega has admitted in interviews that she insisted Tim Burton let her choreograph Wednesday’s dance because she “stopped trusting outside opinions.” At the same time, this solution was a source of concern for her – “I felt very insecure about this scene. I arranged the steps myself and I think it is perfectly clear that I am not a dancer or a choreographer.” After the premiere of the series, it turned out that the arrangement together with the song became an Internet sensation – thousands of viewers play the entire sequence and publish their recordings. In fact, Lady Gaga joined the fun, which made the trend even stronger – even Madonna recorded her version of the dance.
Source: Gazeta
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