Amanda Seyfried will make her “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut on December 5, with rapper Don Toliver as musical guest. The show announced the pairing live during its November 14 broadcast, hosted by John Mulaney. Toliver will perform on the show for the first time. Seyfried becomes the fourth first-time host of Season 52, joining Jalen Brunson, Inde Navarrette and Druski. The series takes a three-week break after Mulaney’s episode and returns in the first week of December.
The booking arrives at a peak moment for Seyfried. She stars in “You Can See Everything,” A24’s three-hour documentary from directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Her involvement stayed out of the teasers, trailers and press, and she appears near the midpoint. She plays Holmes again in dramatized reenactments of scenes the filmmakers never captured on camera, a role that echoes her Emmy-winning turn in “The Dropout” in 2022. She also becomes a sparring partner for Holmes’s partner, Billy Evans, in a heated dinner argument that has become one of the film’s most discussed scenes. Reports say that exchange touched on MAGA politics and Charlie Kirk.
Critics have praised her work, and the documentary has drawn Oscar talk that is rare for a nonfiction film, including acting buzz for Seyfried. Evans has taken a harder line on the project. He has said the film may be “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done,” according to The Daily Beast.
Seyfried had stayed quiet about the film for weeks. This week she spoke publicly for the first time, in a wide-ranging conversation with Fielder and Oppenheim. She said she worried that the project could “destroy” her career, according to reporting on that interview. The “SNL” announcement came three days after the conversation was published.
Fans can expect sketch writers to find material in the documentary, which has dominated conversation since its October release. “SNL” regularly mines the week’s biggest cultural moments, and Seyfried arrives with one of them attached to her name. NBC has not announced sketch plans or cast appearances for the episode. Seyfried has worked steadily since “Mean Girls” and “Mamma Mia!” Her visit to Studio 8H caps a busy autumn that also included the world premiere of Netflix’s animated film “Steps” in New York on November 8.
