Regardless of what audiences may need heard — or speculated — Adrien Brody says he's not banned from Saturday Night Live. At the very least not that he's conscious of.

In an notorious second from the Could 10, 2003, episode hosted by Brody, the actor wore a wig of dreadlocks and spoke in an exaggerated Jamaican accent as he launched the evening's musical visitor, Sean Paul. The reggae artist hails from Kingston, Jamaica, whereas Brody was born in New York Metropolis.

Brody's "ya mon"-filled introduction strayed wildly from the legendary sketch present's normal line of "Women and gentleman, [musical guest]" format, resulting in rumors afterward that he'd been banned from the famously non-improvised reside present. The Brutalist star, who received Greatest Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Movement Image, Drama, at Sunday's Golden Globes ceremony, informed Vulture in a brand new interview that he was by no means issued a proper ban. "However I even have by no means been invited again on," he added. "So I don’t know what to inform you."

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The Asteroid Metropolis star defined that the bit was certainly his thought, however that he'd first performed it throughout gown rehearsal for the Lorne Michaels-created present and that they'd supplied the costume. "I feel Lorne wasn't proud of me embellishing a bit, however they allowed me to," Brody defined. "I believed that was a protected area to do this, weirdly."

The actor, who was recent off a Greatest Actor Oscar win for The Pianist on the time, informed the outlet the bit was simply certainly one of many he'd tossed round throughout his internet hosting stint on the sketch present. "They had been all actually agape from me pitching," he recalled.

Brody just isn’t the one A-lister to make clear that he hasn't truly been banned by the long-lasting NBC present at the moment in its landmark fiftieth season.

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Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson first claimed in March 2022 that he wasn't welcome again at SNL after he'd dropped an F-bomb on a 2012 episode as a part of certainly one of Kenan Thompson's hilarious "What Up With That?" sketches, blaming the forged member for not slicing him off in time. Nonetheless, Leisure Weekly confirmed that there was no official ban in place for the Pulp Fiction star, who then defined on a Could 2022 episode of EW's The Awardist podcast that Michaels himself had additionally dispelled the notion that he might by no means return to the sequence.

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"Are you ever gonna let me again on the present?" Samuels recalled confronting the SNL boss throughout an encounter on an elevator in New York Metropolis, however mentioned Michaels replied, "You're not banned!"

Lack of ban apart, like Brody, Jackson has not returned to Studio 8H since, however hold your fingers crossed as Saturday Evening Dwell has but to announce its upcoming slate of hosts for the rest of season 50.

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