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A Prada-wearing devil shows up connected this week’s SNL promo, and it’s not Meryl Streep aliases Anna Wintour.
Olivia Rodrigo is location though – she’s some nan big and philharmonic impermanent this week – but nan devil is James Austin Johnson, out-Streeping Streep.
In nan promo, Rodrigo arrives astatine Studio 8-H to beryllium greeted by formed members Andrew Dismukes and Jane Wickline, who are each smiles until chap formed personnel Tommy Brennan rushes successful to warn, “Hey guys! He’s connected his way!”
Panic ensues astatine nan imminent presence of Someone Big, and if you’re reasoning Lorne Michaels, deliberation again. Johnson barges in, wearing immoderate benignant of candy-apple-color fur overgarment and cooly issuing demands successful a perfect, beat-for-beat return connected Meryl Streep’s celebrated segment successful nan first The Devil Wears Prada. Where Streep’s Miranda Priestly casually filleted Anne Hathaway’s Andrea Sachs complete nan latter’s offhand remark astir bluish belts, Johnson goes disconnected connected Rodrigo’s usage of nan connection “skits.”
“These skits?” replies nan silver-bobbed Johnson. “I find it benignant of comical that you deliberation these ‘skits’ person thing to do pinch you erstwhile successful truth your full profession has been turned into sketches by nan group successful this very room.”
The skit, eh, sketch, gets a capper erstwhile Brennan returns to denote nan presence of an moreover bigger Someone Big.
Watch nan promo above, but possibly first refresh your representation pinch nan pertinent clip from nan 2006 movie below.
This will beryllium Rodrigo’s first clip arsenic big and 3rd clip arsenic philharmonic guest. The Grammy winner’s caller album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, drops June 12.
SNL airs unrecorded connected NBC (11:30 p.m. ET/ 8:30 p.m. PT) and streams unrecorded connected Peacock. It is produced successful relation pinch Broadway Video. The creator and executive shaper is Lorne Michaels.
