Troye Sivan was in “pure shock” after watching Timothée Chalamet impersonate him on Saturday Evening Dwell.
The Australian pop star took to social media following the Nov. 11 episode of the NBC comedy collection, throughout which the Wonka star hilariously portrayed Sivan as solid member Sarah Sherman’s sleep paralysis demon.
“WHY IS LIFE SO WEIRDDDDD RN LMAO IM DEAD,” Sivan captioned a snippet of the SNL skit on Instagram.
The Idol actor additionally shared a number of screenshots from the sketch on his Instagram Story, together with a snapshot of himself watching the comical section on his laptop computer with the caption, “Pure Shock.” The singer preferred it a lot, he even modified his profile image to a picture of Chalamet portraying him.
Throughout the five-minute sketch, Sherman performs a girl who complains to her physician (portrayed by SNL‘s Bowen Yang) that she sees a mysterious determine within the room when she tries to sleep. Chalamet, who served because the night’s host, then seems within the hospital room as a hallucination of Sivan from the artist’s “Acquired Me Began” music video, the place he sports activities a good white tank high and dishevelled blue pants.
“It’s only a man, however like a homosexual man,” Sherman describes, to which Chalamet’s Sivan replies, “No, not simply any homosexual man, homie. It’s me, Troye Sivan. Let’s go!”
After displaying off his dance strikes and barely flattening his pants, Chalamet’s Sivan reassures Sherman that he’s not a sleep demon. “No, not fairly, girly. I’m an Australian YouTube twink-turned-indie pop star and model-turned-HBO actor Troye Sivan being performed by an American actor who can’t do an Australian accent,” he says in his regular voice.
The physician then reveals that Sherman is the fourth lady he’s handled who’s “affected by Troye Sivan dancing as her sleep demon.” Sherman wonders if it’s a nasty factor, asking, “Isn’t he form of well-known?” Bowen replies, “He’s homosexual well-known. It’s totally different!”
The sketch ends with Sherman telling the doctor that she’s beginning to take pleasure in Sivan’s presence. “Oh no, I actually want you didn’t say that. In the event you invite him in, he begins to multiply,” he says. From there, Sivan manifests extra variations in himself within the type of musical guest Boygenius‘ Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker.
“Hey homie, thanks for inviting us,” Bridgers’ Sivan says with a smile.
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