Glen Powell brought his UPS delivery driver onstage as a special guest during his Saturday Night Live monologue – check out the moment below.
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During his opening monologue last night (November 15), Powell revealed that he was originally supposed to host the show four years ago, around the original premiere date of Top Gun: Maverick.
He told the crowd that he and his family were celebrating when he got the call to host, which happened to be when a UPS driver was delivering a package to his house. “So we all took a selfie with him, and this is the selfie to mark the occasion,” Powell said before showing the actual selfie with him, his family, and the UPS driver. “But then my dream got taken away,” he continued.
“Top Gun got delayed because of COVID, so SNL had to take their offer back. Lorne Michaels literally called me and said, ‘Without Top Gun’, and these are his words, ‘no one will know who the “F” you are.’”
Powell went on to explain that, for the past four years, the driver had thought he was a liar. So, when he got the call to host again, he and his family decided to make things right.
“My sisters tracked him down. The women in my family are terrifying,” he joked. “They found the cell number of this UPS guy. His name is Mitch. So to prove to Mitch that I am not a liar, I flew him all the way to New York…He thought it was a scam, but he still came, and he’s sitting in the audience tonight.”
Powell then called Mitch onstage, and the two took another selfie together.
“I had to wait my entire life, plus four years to be here,” Powell said. “But if I have learned anything, it is that the best things in life don’t happen overnight, and no one knows that better than UPS.”
Check out the full monologue below.
Powell recently starred in Edgar Wright’s The Running Man, which is an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1982 dystopian story and a loose remake of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film.
The film follows Powell’s Ben Richards, a construction worker who auditions for a twisted reality show in which he must survive a team of assassins to win a huge cash prize.
NME awarded the film three stars, writing: “The best of Wright’s take on The Running Man comes in the first half, as he sets up a world where sphere-shaped, all-seeing Rover Cams buzz around in the sky, videoing everything. It’s a telling portrait of a corporate America (“the greatest country in the fucking universe”) that feels like a fascist state. Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 RoboCop did something similar and Wright mines a familiar strain of droll humour throughout.”
In other news, Powell recently dismissed the idea that he could be in the running to be the next James Bond, saying that producers should “Get an authentic Brit for that job.”
