Sydney Sweeney was “practically begging” the Saturday Night Live cast to poke fun at her physical attributes, according to a regular cast member of the American show.
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Sweeney made her first appearance on the show as a host in March this year. At the time, she played a detective from the NYPD, the captain of a high school cheerleading squad, and a waitress at Hooters, among other roles in sketches.
However, the young actress’s first episode received negative reactions from people who claimed that the show’s humor relied too much on jokes about her body. In particular, internet users criticized the Hooters sketch that joked about the new waitress, played by Sweeney, making a small fortune in tips on her first day, for obvious reasons.
But Bowen Yang, a regular cast member of SNL, stated that it was the actress who encouraged them to highlight her attributes. During an appearance on the podcast Fly on the Wall, hosted by Dana Carvey and David Spade, former SNL cast members, Yang spoke about the controversies surrounding Sweeney’s debut on the show.
The comedian, who appeared in a Hooters sketch with Sweeney, said that the actress was “an example of a host who came in and understood how she was already being perceived” in the media. “She came in and said, ‘Please, guys, make jokes about my [physical attributes].’ She was practically begging everyone,” he revealed.
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