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Timothée Chalamet will serve as both host and musical guest on this week’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” and he needs a little help getting through it.
Lucky, after last year’s viral lookalike contest — where dozens of Chalamet doppelgangers gathered in New York City’s Washington Square Park to compete for the title. gave Timothée Chalamet look-alike, played by Chalamet himself — the “A Complete Unknown” star got creative with how he plans to survive his big week on 30 Rock.
“I’ve never done this before. I have to be the host and musical guest on ‘SNL’ in the same week, so it’s a lot of work and I want to focus on the songs,” Chalamet said in a fresh take. Promo Released on Wednesday. “So, I brought some help to fulfill all the hosting duties.”
This support appeared to be his four doppelgängers, all dressed as different versions of themselves.
From Bob Dylan Chalamet with an acoustic guitar slung around his neck to Wonka Chalamet in full purple, the Oscar-nominated actor covers all bases to help with things like “meeting with writers or working on my monologue.” are taken He says
Then, midway through the promo, Chalamet hilariously forgets that he’s scheduled to be “right now” on “The Tonight Show,” but turns to a lookalike to fill in for him.
“Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon looked a little confused — rightfully so — when told that the lookers walked out on stage on that night’s show, but Chalamet, one of his fellow The appearance was more influenced by people watching the appearance on TV.
“He’s good, he’s really good,” says a delighted Chalamet. “Yes, you guys should learn from him.”
“SNL” airs Saturdays at 11:30 pm EDT/8:30 pm PDT on NBC.
