Brad Pitt plays Dr. Anthony Fauci on SNL, just as the doctor requested
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What 79-year-old wouldn’t dream of being played by Brad Pitt, a movie star? This dream came true for Dr. Anthony Fauci on Saturday when Pitt played Fauci in a sketch from the latest version of Saturday Night Live that was shot at home.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has become a household name thanks to his regular appearance at President Donald Trump’s coronavirus briefings. There are even fauci goods and an online petition asking him to be named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine – A title that Pitt has already held. And Fauci himself joked recently in a CNN interview that he would “naturally” like to be portrayed by the actor.
The sketch showed Pitt, 56, wearing a fauci-style wig and glasses, sitting at a desk, trying to explain the President’s recent comments about the outbreak of the corona virus.
After Pitt-as-Fauci showed a clip in which the President promised that the coronavirus would go “like a miracle”, he said, “A miracle would be great. Who doesn’t love miracles? But miracles shouldn’t be Plan A.” Even Sully should try. ” land at the airport first. “
The sketch also included a clip in which Trump says a vaccine could be made “relatively soon”.
“It will be an interesting sentence relatively soon,” muses Pitts Fauci. “Relative to the entire history of the earth? Sure, the vaccine will come very quickly.”
Pitt finished the sketch by removing his wig, thanking the real Fauci and health workers, and said, “Live somehow from all over America, it’s Saturday night.”
This was the second Saturday Night Live episode filmed with actors in videos filmed in their various homes. The first was broadcast on April 11 and contained one Opening monologue by actor Tom Hanks, Who has recovered from the virus.
