{"id":404712,"date":"2026-04-18T06:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:56:13","slug":"will-ferrells-snl-castmate-reveals-his-eerie-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/404712\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Ferrell\u2019s \u2018SNL\u2019 Castmate Reveals His Eerie Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Will Ferrell had a \u201cdark\u201d feeling about \u201crobots\u201d and the future of Hollywood 30 years ago, his castmate Molly Shannon revealed. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, Shannon recalled the early career moment when the prediction hit her now-longtime friend. \u201cOne night when we were at SNL, we had just started, and I was so excited, like, \u2018Oh my God, this job\u2019s so great.\u2019 And Will was kind of dark, and he was like, \u2018I don\u2019t know. Who knows how long this is going to last?\u2019 This was 30 years ago,\u201d she explained. \u201cHe goes, \u2018I really don\u2019t think, I don\u2019t know\u2026 It\u2019s not going to last long, and I think actors are eventually going to be replaced by robots, and they\u2019re not going to need human actors anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Ferrell had a \u201cdark\u201d feeling about \u201crobots\u201d and the future of Hollywood 30 years ago, his castmate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,3488,18309,74154],"class_list":{"0":"post-404712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","13":"tag-molly-shannon","14":"tag-will-ferrell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}