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In his first time hosting “Saturday Night Live,” Jonathan Majors poked fun at his “The Harder They Fall” co-star Idris Elba‘s good looks, talked about working at Red Lobster and revealed another title for his new Marvel movie.
Majors began his monologue discussing the making of the Netflix Western “The Harder They Fall,” which pits him vs. Elba as rival outlaws. “It was fun filming that movie but if you ever want to feel bad about how you look, definitely spend two months right next to Idris Elba. It humbles you.”
The Emmy-nominated “Lovecraft Country” actor called his life a “crazy journey,” from moving around a lot as a “military brat” to being a 17-year-old “homeless, living in my car, working at Red Lobster and Olive Garden.”
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When reflecting on what he learned during those days, Majors said: “You know, I learned that Red Lobster and Olive Garden are owned by the same parent company, so you can work at both places with no problem.”
“Side note: it’s crazy how many people got their start at Red Lobster,” Majors said, before adding that both Nicki Minaj and Chris Rock are Red Lobster alums. “Now, I don’t know what they’re putting in them Cheddar Bay biscuits, but it’s working.”
“That experience, it taught me a lot,” Majors said on a more serious note. “It taught me that if you work hard if you trust the plan great things can happen.”
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Major next appears in Marvel’s upcoming “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” (in theaters July 28, 2023), “or as the Black community likes to call it, ‘Not Black Panther,’ ” the actor quipped.
He concluded his monologue by explaining how feeling the “bigness” of hosting “SNL” made him remember his grandfather’s advice: “He’d say, ‘Grandson, everything’s big at first but you walk up on it, you face it and pretty soon it’s so small, you can put it in your pocket.’ Which incidentally is the tagline for the next Ant-Man movie!”
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