It was around the time of the Covid-19 pandemic that actor Glen Powell got the call that he would host “Saturday Night Live.” <\/p>\n
He and his family were celebrating the news on a porch when a UPS driver delivering a package happened upon them and asked what was going on. Powell told the driver to tune in to the “SNL” Christmas episode because he’d be hosting.<\/p>\n
They celebrated that moment roughly four years ago with a selfie, Powell said, displaying the image during his long-awaited \u201cSNL\u201d monologue Saturday.<\/p>\n
But it wasn’t to be. <\/p>\n
Powell’s hosting duties were contingent on the release of \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d in which he plays Lt. Jake \u201cHangman\u201d Seresin, and the film was delayed by the pandemic. <\/p>\n
\u201cWithout \u2018Top Gun,\u2019\u201d Powell quoted “SNL” executive producer Lorne Michaels as saying, \u201cno one will know who the eff you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
The movie didn\u2019t reach the public until spring 2022, and it would be a couple more years before Powell, who stars in the new movie “The Running Man,” would make his \u201cSNL\u201d hosting debut. <\/p>\n
“So I didn’t end up hosting, which means for four years, this UPS driver was just going around saying ‘Glen Powell is a liar,'” he said.<\/p>\n
But on Saturday, the native of Austin, Texas, was finally able to prove to the man identified as “Mitch the UPS guy” “that I\u2019m not crazy.” <\/p>\n
Powell said his sisters tracked Mitch down, and Powell flew him to New York City so he could witness the moment from Studio 8H.<\/p>\n
He called Mitch to stand with him on the storied stage for another selfie as his monologue concluded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to wait my entire life plus four years to be here,\u201d Powell said. \u201cBut if I have learned anything, it\u2019s that the best things in life don\u2019t happen overnight, and no one knows that better than UPS.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cSNL\u201d airs on NBC, a division of NBCUniversal, which is also the parent company of NBC News. Olivia Dean was the musical guest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was around the time of the Covid-19 pandemic that actor Glen Powell got the call that he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-136242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}