Donald Glover Is Glad ‘SNL’ Turned Him Down
Donald Glover Is Glad ‘SNL’ Turned Him Down: It ‘Would Have Killed Me’ https://t.co/udPF1K6aCv pic.twitter.com/acxT3Vm6I1
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) April 4, 2023
Donald Glover is thankful to not have been cast on “Saturday Night Live.”
He was turned down from the live sketch series after auditioning in both 2007 and 2009.
“I dodged so many bullets. Me being on ‘SNL’ would’ve killed me. I got friends who made it on ‘SNL’ and, at the time, I was like, damn. But if I got on ‘SNL,’ my career wouldn’t have happened. And thank God, thank God I didn’t get some of those pilots. I wanted so desperately to be on ‘Parks and Rec’ because it was the cool, hipster show. I am the bullet dodger. I feel like Samuel L. Jackson in ‘Pulp Fiction.’ That wasn’t a mistake, you know? God did that.”
Glover later was cast in “Community” in 2009 after being a writer on “30 Rock” in 2006.
He was hired as part of a diversity initiative at NBC.
"Tina Fey said it herself….It was a diversity thing. The last two people who were fighting for the job were me and Kenya Barris."
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