WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.865 - You know, when I got the audition, I just thought, oh, 2 00:00:01.865 --> 00:00:03.990 this is a, this is a no-brainer. 3 00:00:03.990 --> 00:00:07.740 In fact, I was like, if I don't get this job, 4 00:00:07.740 --> 00:00:09.035 then the system is rigged. 5 00:00:09.035 --> 00:00:10.365 - Is rigged, - Is rigged. 6 00:00:10.365 --> 00:00:12.090 - Rigged, - Yeah. Some bullshit if I 7 00:00:12.090 --> 00:00:13.170 didn't get it, but I got it. 8 00:00:13.170 --> 00:00:15.510 So the system is all right with me. 9 00:00:15.510 --> 00:00:18.720 Hey, I'm LaMorne Morris and this is, that's so random. 10 00:00:25.230 --> 00:00:26.820 - Thank you so much for joining us 11 00:00:26.820 --> 00:00:28.920 to talk about your new film Saturday Night, 12 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:32.370 where you play SNL icon Garrett Morris. 13 00:00:32.370 --> 00:00:33.203 Thank you. 14 00:00:33.203 --> 00:00:34.328 Without giving away too much, 15 00:00:34.328 --> 00:00:36.330 can you tell us a little bit about what it's about? 16 00:00:36.330 --> 00:00:38.430 - The movie is about the inception of 17 00:00:38.430 --> 00:00:40.800 what we know is Saturday Night Live. 18 00:00:40.800 --> 00:00:43.920 A group of comedians come together under the wing 19 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:45.270 of Lorne Michaels. 20 00:00:45.270 --> 00:00:47.430 This is his baby, and he's trying to create this show 21 00:00:47.430 --> 00:00:49.110 that no one's ever seen before. 22 00:00:49.110 --> 00:00:52.260 No one knows what it is, but NBC is green lighting it 23 00:00:52.260 --> 00:00:55.320 and the question is, will they actually make it to air. 24 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.678 Even though we know they do make it to air, 25 00:00:57.678 --> 00:00:58.530 the pressure is 26 00:00:58.530 --> 00:01:01.500 so much that you, that you feel like you're in it. 27 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:04.080 So it's definitely a movie I think SNL 28 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:05.220 lovers will appreciate. 29 00:01:05.220 --> 00:01:07.950 But not only that, I think if you're just the lover of film 30 00:01:07.950 --> 00:01:10.050 and cinema, you know, 31 00:01:10.050 --> 00:01:12.120 I think this is, this is a movie for you 32 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:14.280 - And I think it's so cute that you play Garrett Morris, 33 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:16.320 you two share the same last name. 34 00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:18.660 What's the best piece of advice that he gave you? 35 00:01:18.660 --> 00:01:20.130 - Well, his best piece of advice was 36 00:01:20.130 --> 00:01:22.620 to just be honest about his story. 37 00:01:22.620 --> 00:01:24.750 You know, I told him what the script had in it 38 00:01:24.750 --> 00:01:26.490 and I told him a little bit about the arc 39 00:01:26.490 --> 00:01:28.680 of the character in this particular film, 40 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:30.570 and he said, that all sounds accurate. 41 00:01:30.570 --> 00:01:35.220 He had a bit of a rough couple of seasons on there, trying 42 00:01:35.220 --> 00:01:38.610 to find his identity, trying to find his place within all 43 00:01:38.610 --> 00:01:42.150 these other young and funny comedians. 44 00:01:42.150 --> 00:01:44.370 I mean, these folks have been doing it their whole lives 45 00:01:44.370 --> 00:01:47.340 and here he is coming in as a playwright, 46 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:49.200 as a civil rights activist. 47 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:50.700 He wanted to make sure that 48 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:54.960 that messaging was told honestly, that he wasn't just a dude 49 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:57.240 who showed up and struggled a little bit. 50 00:01:57.240 --> 00:01:59.610 He was somebody who was well accomplished, 51 00:01:59.610 --> 00:02:02.490 but was trying to find his way into this new media. 52 00:02:02.490 --> 00:02:04.770 - You've spoken a lot about being typecasted. 53 00:02:04.770 --> 00:02:06.870 Is that something that you experienced 54 00:02:06.870 --> 00:02:08.100 throughout your career? 55 00:02:08.100 --> 00:02:10.080 - You know, being in comedy after comedy, 56 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.430 after comedy, even when, you know, you, you can do drama 57 00:02:14.430 --> 00:02:16.680 as well, you can do other things. 58 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:18.570 Some would say that's a bit, it's a form 59 00:02:18.570 --> 00:02:19.680 of type casting bottle. 60 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:21.300 I don't see it that way. I got lucky 61 00:02:21.300 --> 00:02:23.310 to play a character named Winston on New Girl 62 00:02:23.310 --> 00:02:25.710 that people seem to really, really love. 63 00:02:25.710 --> 00:02:29.220 Yet I get to do other things outside of that as well. 64 00:02:29.220 --> 00:02:32.940 I embrace the people on the street that say, Hey Winston, 65 00:02:32.940 --> 00:02:34.650 you know, I think, I think it's cool, you know. 66 00:02:34.650 --> 00:02:37.110 I wouldn't say I'm typecast. 67 00:02:37.110 --> 00:02:39.840 I just worry that once I do a rom-com with my shirt off 68 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:42.780 or something like that, then everybody's gonna keep asking 69 00:02:42.780 --> 00:02:44.400 me to, to take my shirt off. 70 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:45.780 They're gonna keep, and I don't wanna have 71 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:47.250 to stay in shape, you know what I mean? 72 00:02:47.250 --> 00:02:50.190 And that's something that I think producers 73 00:02:50.190 --> 00:02:51.540 and like creatives out there should know. 74 00:02:51.540 --> 00:02:54.645 Like, I'll do one, but I'm not gonna keep doing them. 75 00:02:54.645 --> 00:02:55.645 You know what I mean? 76 00:02:55.645 --> 00:02:57.810 What is something that you were surprised 77 00:02:57.810 --> 00:03:00.768 to learn about the process of SNL 78 00:03:00.768 --> 00:03:01.959 - Being in this business, 79 00:03:01.959 --> 00:03:04.060 you know how hard it's to get something made. 80 00:03:04.060 --> 00:03:05.740 Like, you know, any little thing could go 81 00:03:05.740 --> 00:03:07.270 wrong at any given moment. 82 00:03:07.270 --> 00:03:09.361 And whenever you do get opportunity 83 00:03:09.361 --> 00:03:10.194 to create something, 84 00:03:10.194 --> 00:03:11.890 someone is taking a chance on 85 00:03:11.890 --> 00:03:13.720 that thing that you're trying to create. 86 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:15.250 The one thing that that kind 87 00:03:15.250 --> 00:03:17.500 of shocked me a little bit was knowing 88 00:03:17.500 --> 00:03:21.310 that NBC didn't necessarily want that show on the air, 89 00:03:21.310 --> 00:03:25.360 that it was a play between them and Johnny Carson. 90 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:27.730 Because obviously now knowing SNL we're like, 91 00:03:27.730 --> 00:03:29.320 that's the funniest show of all time, right? 92 00:03:29.320 --> 00:03:32.020 Like that's the, this is, it's its own brand 93 00:03:32.020 --> 00:03:34.000 of comedy, it's its own genre. 94 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.410 - In five words, 95 00:03:35.410 --> 00:03:38.110 tell us why people should watch Saturday Night. 96 00:03:38.110 --> 00:03:40.390 - It's a damn good movie.