Bowen Yang’s Dangerously Authentic ‘SNL’ Journey: “I’ve Had to Learn It the Hard Way”

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Bowen Yang’s Dangerously Authentic ‘SNL’ Journey: “I’ve Had to Learn It the Hard Way”
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The Emmy-nominated ‘SNL’ MVP on going straight for Sydney Sweeney, sleep demon Troye Sivan, and Tina Fey’s timeless advice.

Bowen Yang as a straight guy. The concept for one of Saturday Night Live ’s strongest pre-taped sketches this season couldn’t sound sillier or lighter. Yet for its star, it marked a subtle breakthrough. Here was a versatile performer who’s imbued the series with a crucially modern queer aesthetic—as, still, one of the few openly gay cast members in its history—sending up the persona he’d smartly honed over five seasons.

” The sketch took literal years, right? I believed in it so much because—by my own doing, or by the way that an audience is able to digest me in a very quick way—there’s this, “I have my preconceived notions of what Bowen is going to do on my television.” It’s going to be gay. It’s going to be gay. This is what we were talking about years ago. This is the wheelhouse: “No problem, I don’t have to feel self-conscious about this, I don’t think it is harmful.

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