https://collider.com/jacob-elordi-snl-hosting-renee-rapp/

He will be joined by musical guest Renée Rapp.

Jacob Elordi's attractiveness worked against him on SNL: Maybe Renée Rapp should've hosted? (https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/01/jacob-elordi-snl/677209/)

On last night (https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/comments/19btftn/live_discussion_january_20_2024_jacob_elordirene%C3%A9/)’s SNL (https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/142825-s49e09-jacob-elordi-rene%C3%A9-rapp/), Jacob Elordi’s attractiveness worked against him.

By Esther Zuckerman

JANUARY 21, 2024, 11:48 AM ET

If you know two things about the Saltburn and Priscilla star Jacob Elordi, you’re probably aware that he’s very tall (Google says 6 feet 5 inches) and very handsome in a classical way (sharp cheekbones, strong chin). If you were seeking more information, you didn’t get it from his hosting gig on last night’s episode (https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/jacob-elordi-hosts-snl-the-best-and-worst-episode-of-the-season?ref=scroll) of Saturday Night Live.

Nearly every time Elordi was on-screen, the show made sure to remark on his beauty, and it made for a fairly sleepy 90 minutes in which attractiveness became a lazy shorthand for charisma. Trying as he might to show off his range by putting on different accents, Elordi was, in sketch after sketch, tasked with being hot so that he could be fawned over by the women in the cast. The resulting jokes felt regressive—yes, ladies were into the big, gorgeous man—and frustratingly stale.

The Elordi beats of the episode also stood in stark contrast to those featuring the evening’s other special appearances: the singer and actor Renée Rapp, who brought out the always-captivating Megan Thee Stallion for one of her musical performances, a song from the new Mean Girls movie in which Rapp stars. Rapp’s turn as the film’s antagonist, Regina George, also meant that Rachel McAdams—who played the role in the original 2004 film—was on hand to introduce her, and even made a cameo in a sketch as a bad actor who happened to look like McAdams.