Reneé Rapp responded to fan speculation that she didn’t have any media training on “Saturday Night Live.”
During a week-long press tour to promote the new musical version of “Mean Girls”, the 24-year-old has offered candid comments during her interviews, leading to several viral moments on social media.
This included a vaccine against Jo Koy after the 2024 Golden Globe Awards during game of “ins and outs” for the official TikTok page TODAY With Hoda and Jenna.
Rapp appeared on “SNL” on Jan. 20 as a musical guest alongside host Jacob Elordi and starred in a sketch that poked fun at her lack of media training, as well as recent awards show controversies with Selena Gomez and Emily Blunt, both of which made headlines when fans tried to read their lips to translate their conversations.
In the skit, Elordi and Bowen Yang served as professional lip readers. for a segment on Entertainment Tonight with hosts Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim.
“This awards season, the internet is full of images of celebrities having conversations we wish we could hear,” Nwodim said introducing Elordi and Yang. “Thanks to our next guests, we won’t have to speculate anymore.”
The professional lip-reading duo seemed promising before I tried to decipher an intimate moment in between rumored couple Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner at the 2024 Golden Globes.
However, when they fabricated a conversation in which Chalamet believed that Kim Kardashian was Jenner’s mother and several “Wonka” referencesGardner and Nwodim were not convinced.
The duo tried again with a music video of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on the streets of New Yorkthis time with blatant references to their careers, random noises and conversations where their lips didn’t even move.
In another clip from the Golden Globes Jennifer Lawrence says, “If I don’t win, I’m leaving!” » Yang tried to pretend she was singing the opening lines of “Don’t Rain On My Parade.”
While Gardner and Nwodim remained unconvinced, Elordi and Yang defended their talents, explaining that their “lip readings hold up in court” and have “put people in prison for life.” When they attempted to show off their skills this time, they called for reinforcements, bringing in their intern, who happened to be Rapp playing herself.
Gardner asked the duo about having Rapp as an intern, but she explained the situation by telling him, “Yeah, I’ve been completely deteriorating in every interview lately, so now I have to go through 40 hours of media training ordered by the court. »
While promoting “Mean Girls,” Rapp participated in numerous interviews during which she received her fair share of offhand comments, including said to Stephen Colbert about her crush on Mark Cuban and an interview with Extra where she defends her “Not My Fault” collaborator Megan Thee Stallion.
Fans on social media celebrated Rapp for his honesty, with one fan writing on X”Honestly, please avoid Renee Rapp media training, she is exactly who she is supposed to be and we LOVE her for it. “
Rapp even addressed the internet’s comments on his recent interviews, captioning it Instagram ” in a January 17 article, “his lack of media training is scandalous.”
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