Oscar Isaac and Aidy Bryant tease Charli XCX ahead of this weekend’s Saturday Night Live
It's like they've never heard an English accent before!
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Ahead of this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, host Oscar Isaac and cast member Aidy Bryant took some time to poke fun at musical guest Charli XCX, who comes to NYC from across the pond.
At the beginning of the clip, Bryant suggests the three of them practice their kissing scene for this weekend’s sketch, to which Isaac asks, “We have a kissing scene?” “Well, we could,” Bryant says, trying to sneak her way into a three-way kiss. Listen, we all wish we could kiss both Charli XCX and Oscar Isaac, Aidy!
Isaac and Bryant then move on to tease Charli about her accent, mimicking her in a Cockney accent, despite the singer’s critiques that they sound nothing like her. She eventually gives up, telling the two, “That’s spot-on, well done, yeah.”
This marks Isaac’s first time hosting the sketch comedy show, although he appeared in a sketch in October of last year. During the Jason Sudeikis-hosted episode, Isaac popped up as a pirate guest during “What’s Up With That.”
Last year, the actor starred in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, as well as the HBO miniseries Scenes From A Marriage opposite Jessica Chastain. Later this month, he will star in the Marvel miniseries Moon Knight as Marc Spector a.k.a. Moon Knight.
Charli XCX’s performance comes just weeks out from the release of her next studio album, CRASH. She was slated to perform a few months ago for the Paul Rudd episode, but it was cancelled due to rising concerns about omicron.
For her previously scheduled performance, she was originally going to bring Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens, who are featured on her single “New Shapes,” on stage with her. She has not announced yet if she plans on bringing the two back for this weekend’s show. The last time Charli performed on SNL was back in 2014, where she played her breakthrough single “Boom Clap.”
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It’s fucking embarrassing when Americans try to show off their “British” accents, jokingly or not.
I like the weird implication that no American is capable of doing a convincing English accent.
Same goes for Brits trying to do an American accent. in other words, stop being a dick.
Almost as much as people who think a crappy fake accent is a massively, horribly offensive outrage.
Whatchoo Talkin bout edked?
Someone’s throwing a wobbly.
Right??
A bunch of heroic cross-dressing, tax dodgers didn’t start a war 247 years ago just so we could speak like an old lady with some Corgis and sip tea without alcohol!
Americans killed a bunch of public servants so we could make the working poor pay for our pool water, invest in BitCoin and deregulate things dammit!
You wot mate?
It feels like a right elbow in me knackers when they do that. I’d kick the lot of them straight down the stairs, I would
Now tell us how the key to doing an amazing “American accent” starts with speaking through your nose … and that’s it really.
That first thing that Aidy said: is that a little bit of an Arizona accent?
Yeah, she went to high school a few years behind Emma Stone (and a few more behind Meghan McCain).
They look so realistic and lifelike together.
Wow that bodes super well for the episode if the best the writers could come up with for the promos is that English accents are crazy and Americans doing bad English accents are wacky!
The writers saw the trailer for Moon Knight.
I love Charli but she does *not* have a cockney accent – way more RP
Back in my day you didn’t get to make up some cute name for yourself unless you were a rapper or a children’s entertainer — if you did, it was a sure sign that you sucked.There were exactly three exceptions:SlashBabyfaceSuper Dave
I assume there will be a Jessica Chastain cameo.