Charli xcx didn’t follow this advice ahead of her Saturday Night Live hosting debut.
In an interview with Variety published on Wednesday, Dec. 4, the “Club Classics” singer shared the advice she got from Ariana Grande, who hosted the sketch show in October.
“She’d obviously just done [SNL] and killed it, so I was getting tips,” Charli, 32, told the publication about her Nov. 16 episode. “She was just like, ‘You’re gonna be amazing, just relax, it’s so fun.’ ”
“But outside of her advice about contact lenses — which I ended up not going with on the night — I really heeded [Lorne Michaels’] advice,” she continued, “which was just to trust the process, go with the flow and not try and overly control things that would automatically get figured out along the way.”
Charli added, “I listened to that advice because, I mean, how can you not?”
The Brat hitmaker previously appeared on SNL in 2014 and 2022. Her third time around, she pulled double duty as both host and musical guest — and proved she could carry the sketch show with her comedic chops.
She appeared in sketches such as “Babymoon,” a follow-up to its wildly popular “Bridesmaids” predecessor when Grande, 31, hosted, along with a Wicked audition tapes skit where she appeared as Adele.
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The “Apple” singer also dressed up as Victoria Beckham in a sketch titled “It Girl Thanksgiving Special.”
Rounding out her evening on SNL, Charli performed “Girl, So Confusing,” with an introduction by Julia Fox, whom she shouts out in “360,” along with “Sympathy Is a Knife” — which features Grande on the remix.
Elsewhere in the Variety interview, Charli spoke about a pivot to acting, as she’s set to appear in several upcoming films and an Amazon comedy series called Overcompensating.
“Everything’s been relatively small, and I’m enjoying learning about being on a set and learning from great directors and actors,” she said.
“I hate it when musicians dive into a different field, head-first, without really researching or learning much of anything about it,” Charli added. “So I did a lot of reading to educate myself over the past three or four years before I actually did anything.”
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