Saturday Evening Stay’s second episode of 2024 may also function a mini The Social Community reunion for Justin Timberlake and Dakota Johnson.
“We’ve come a good distance. See you tonight, Stanford!” Timberlake, 42, wrote by way of his Instagram Story on Saturday, January 27, sharing a nonetheless of himself in mattress from the 2010 movie. He additionally tagged the official Instagram accounts for Johnson, 34, and SNL.
Timberlake performed Napster founder Sean Parker in The Social Community, which advised the story of how Mark Zuckerberg (performed by Jesse Eisenberg) invented Fb. In a single scene, Timberlake’s character wakes up after a hookup with a Stanford College pupil (performed by Johnson). Whereas Sean couldn’t bear in mind his fling’s identify, he did find out about Fb after she left her laptop computer open to the webpage. (Sean later reached out to Mark to swap enterprise suggestions.)
“We shot that scene in sooner or later, and that day Terrence Malick got here to set to observe how David [Fincher, the director] was working with digital, and I used to be like, ‘What?’” Johnson recalled throughout a January 2022 interview with Self-importance Truthful and costar Andrew Garfield. “I used to be so nervous. Earlier than you shoot something, I don’t sleep, and also you sort of have that hole, nervous, shaky feeling, however it was superb. It was one of the best.”
Garfield performed Eduardo Saverin in The Social Community, Zuckerberg’s app cofounder, and remembered feeling starstruck by Timberlake.

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“I used to be by chance introduced into Justin’s — Justin Timberlake of stage, display screen, and pop star fame — trailer by one of many second A.D.s sooner or later.” Garfield, 40, added to the outlet. “And I used to be like, ‘This isn’t my trailer,’ and I noticed a few of his homework. I noticed, like, a board with cue playing cards and a few of his inner decisions and substitutions and I used to be like, ‘Oh, I need to depart and as I depart, I need to let my eyes linger for so long as attainable as I depart,’ as a result of I imply, in fact, as a result of it’s simply there and thank God it wasn’t something unhealthy. It was solely cool.”
Throughout Saturday’s reunion, Johnson will host SNL for the second time whereas Timberlake will be the musical visitor.
“I can’t think about that I received’t get pulled right into a sketch or two. I imply, it’s solely pure,” Timberlake teased of his look throughout a Thursday, January 25, Apple Music interview. “I’m right here for it.”
Timberlake is already a member of SNL’s 5-Timers Membership, having hosted the present 5 occasions beforehand. Nevertheless, he hinted to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that he doesn’t nonetheless have the inductee jacket. “They’re most likely reusing it,” he joked.