Saturday Night Live is a unique job in which every week the cast gets to work with a different celebrity. On a normal day, cast members might find themselves starstruck. Amid SNL’s 50th Anniversary Special, it was like all of Hollywood in one room, plus 50 years worth of SNL legends. Everywhere you looked, there were household names. Yet series alum Leslie Jones hilariously still managed to call Pedro Pascal by the wrong name, and oh, to be a fly on that wall.
Jones and the Mandalorian actor were far from the only surprising celebrity encounter that night. But I have to imagine this was an especially amusing interaction for Pascal. The former Saturday Night Live cast member recalled for Vulture the story of her meeting the Narcos actor at SNL50 and, while sharing her account, the comedian humorously dropped an f-bomb:
