Dakota Johnson and the Saturday Evening Reside comedy group Please Don’t Destroy alike perceive that they’re so-called “nepo infants” — and weren’t afraid to share their standing in the course of the Saturday, January 27, episode.
Johnson, 34, hosted the second SNL episode of the 12 months, the place she took the time to roast present writers Ben Marshall, Martin Herlihy and John Higgins in one in every of their Please Don’t Destroy movies.
“How does it really feel to be within the least viral Taylor Swift video that she’s ever had?” Johnson requested the trio, referring to the pop star, 34, calling them “three unhappy virgins” in a 2021 musical skit with Pete Davidson.
After buying and selling barbs about one another’s careers, Higgins, 28, made a dig about Johnson’s 2023 movie Daddio.
“Is ‘Daddio’ who you known as to get your job?” she nonchalantly responded, referring to John’s father, Tonight Present announcer Steve Higgins.
John replied, “You wanna do the father or mother factor?”
Dakota Johnson. Rosalind O’Connor/NBC
Dakota, for her half, additionally has well-known mother and father. She is the daughter of actors Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, in addition to the stepdaughter of Antonio Banderas. (Dakota’s grandmother Tippi Hendren can also be a well-known actress.) Regardless of being a so-called “nepo child,” Dakota didn’t need to handle her household within the sketch.
“No, probably not,” she mentioned. “Nepo truce?”
John and Martin, the son of former SNL producer Tim Herlihy, agreed as they repeated the phrase, “Nepo Truce,” and flashed matching rings. Dakota was sporting a coordinating rock and touched hers to John’s and Martin’s.
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“A foot within the door and a lot extra,” they chanted as Marshall, who doesn’t have a father or mother working in Hollywood, tried to affix in.
“I hate whenever you guys do this,” Marshall, 29, quipped once they pushed his non-bejeweled hand away.
The truce seemingly labored as Martin was able to let bygones be bygones.
“I don’t know why we’re insulting one another,” Martin, 25, mentioned. “I’m typically a giant fan of yours. like, I beloved Greater Splash … is that what you hoped it could make on the field workplace?”
Dakota has beforehand been candid about her Hollywood privilege because the daughter of well-known stars.
“My life is extremely fortunate and privileged, and the life I led rising up was outstanding — the locations I went and the way we lived and what we have been capable of expertise,” the Madame Internet actress informed Self-importance Truthful in June 2022. “However we additionally struggled with inside household dynamics and conditions and occasions which are so traumatic.”
Dakota’s mother and father divorced in 1994, however each attended her SNL afterparty on Saturday alongside Banderas.
Saturday Evening Reside airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
