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Lorne Michaels promises a major change in the “Saturday Night Live” lineup.
The show’s co-founder and long-time producer said in a recent interview with Puck News that after thinking about keeping steady bows and arrows through the “50th Anniversary Grand Festival” of “SNL”, he was ready to shake the sketch comics team and laughed in tears in the early hours of NBC’s weekend radio.
“It's impossible that there's this kind of distraction, or anything that will remove the focus. We've run the election,” said Michaels, 80, of the decision to decide on major casting changes.
He added that as the show entered the second half of the climb, he felt the pressure to reshape it for a century in the air.
“It will be announced in about a week,” Michaels said of actor news. The interview was released on August 22.
He confirmed that James Austin Johnson will play President Donald Trump. Johnson played Trump for several years during the president's campaign for then-candidate Hillary Clinton.
According to media reports, several current actors are expected to withdraw and auditions will be held earlier this month.
Michaels, the last boss in the broadcast’s key decision, said he has brought more people to it in recent years.
“More and more people are involved in the choice and decision,” he told the media. “There are a lot of people in that room with a lot of opinions. Obviously, I made the final decision. But it doesn’t seem like people don’t let me know how they feel.”
And, as for AI, this is vaguely visible to many people in the entertainment industry as potential job seekers, and Michaels says he is not sweating.
He joked, “I'm not worried about AI because AI can't guess what I'm going to do between 10 and 11 (on show night), because I don't know!”