Zac Efron and John Cena Commiserate About Hosting ‘SNL’

“Ricky Stanicky” costars John Cena and Zac Efron talked with Collider about the film, just how they choose jobs to service and simply exactly how stressful it is to host “Saturday Night Live.” Efron claimed of his time hosting the program, “We prepped all week and then they throw it out the window at the very last minute, and you just try brand new s–t. It was wild. I can’t believe any of it worked.”

Cena acknowledged after he shared his very own hosting troubles when he played frontman for ESPN’s ESPYs. Efron organized “SNL” in 2009, while Cena organized in 2016.

Previously in the meeting, Cena informed the electrical outlet that his procedure for checking out manuscripts and picking jobs is quite uncomplicated: “If I pick it up again and put it down again, it’s out.”

“For me, I don’t necessarily read it through the eyes of me. I read it as a story, and I love reading scripts as stories. I have a rule: if I put it down, I should think twice,” Cena claimed. “Like, I get in a good mindset when I pick it up. I know it’s what I want to do.”

“This is my story time, I enjoy reading. If I can’t get through 120 pages, no matter how many stage directions, if it’s not riveting and I put it down, if I put it down once I’ve got some second thoughts,” Cena claimed. “If I pick it up again and put it down again, it’s out. And that’s not to say it’s bad, it’s just to say it doesn’t move me. This was one where it’s, like, you’re through it and it’s over, and then you go again and it’s over, and then you start realizing, ‘Oh, I can be that.’ And then you start diving into that perspective.”

Cena exposed that, once he started checking out the manuscript for the very first period of DC superhero program “Peacemaker” from James Gunn, he went through every episode. Cena proceeded, “So when it’s something like that, when it’s got that gravity to it, this was an easy read. It’s like 115 pages of just pure comedy and heart.”

Efron concurred and discussed, “If you know you’re up for a character, a specific one, you can kind of drift and start thinking about the motivation of the character or reading the lines out loud, and you’ll be stuck on the same page and never finish the script because you could be stuck on it for an hour thinking about what the scene is about.”

Both stars concurred that the manuscript for “Ricky Stanicky” was a simple yes. Efron included, “It clicked. It was very well-written, and it was the kind of thing you just know Pete’s [Farrelly] gonna nail.”

Cena likewise mentioned the dangers he took while making the movie, specifically in regards to the impacts his personality managed. He discussed that the whole group motivated him and “anytime you try something, you take a big swing, and if people make you feel uncool or like you’re not good enough, you’re never gonna do it again.”

“When you’re in an environment where they welcome the misses, and they’ll hang in there with you until you get something that’s passable, man, that’s where you can really grow as a performer and as a human being,” he included.”

“So, the costume department set me up not to fail,” Cena claimed as he spread out around the appreciation. “The wigs and the makeup were great. Peter was great. They gave me about as much sizzle for my steak as I could have, and I’m grateful to everybody.”

In a meeting with TheWrap released Friday, supervisor peter Farrelly discussed that currently is the correct time for the film, which has actually been 15 years planned, to be launched. He discussed, “This script got better and better and better. There were flaws. Like, I look back now and I’m glad they didn’t make it 10 years ago, because it was thinner. And what we did now, we made it better.”