Stellan Skarsgård Crashes Two Alexander Skarsgård Sketches on ‘SNL,’ Playing a Screaming Dad and a Goofy Dramatic Actor
Alexander Skarsgård was joined, on his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut, by his father.
Skarsgård had been stoic about what’s going on in his career: He didn’t mention his new films “Pillion” or “The Moment” in his monologue, during which he mimed playing the sax along with the “SNL” band.
Later, in a sketch seeming to play off Stellan Skarsgård‘s success this year in “Sentimental Value,” Alexander and Chloe Fineman played cast members in a Scandinavian drama (titled “Stench of a Family”) who couldn’t help but cut up between takes, laughing at the absurdity of the story and their situation. Their characters’ father, who wants to die, is lying in a bathtub waiting to say goodbye. Once the two walk into the bathroom set, they find Stellan, concealed beneath the water with a fake Incredible Hulk prop on his hand. He provides the scene’s final joke, breaking the tension once and for all by raising his Hulk fist into the air.
Watch the sketch below.
Stellan proved himself to play against his image there, and in a sketch lampooning the practices of immigrant parents, in which Alexander played a stoic Finn, whose only memory of affection from his father was accidentally touching knees in a sauna. He was joined, at the end of the sketch, by his real-life father, screaming, “The shame is yours! Live with it!”
The episode’s musical guest, Cardi B, showed up in this sketch as well, playing the wife of the character played by Marcello Hernández. In a wig with rollers in, Cardi grabbed the cigarette out of Hernández’s hand and made her own case as a potential future host.
