00:00There was a moment where nobody knew what SNL was.
00:03I want to bring audiences back to that moment
00:06when there was only one person on the planet who knew it,
00:08and that was Lorne Michaels.
00:09Do you even know what the show is?
00:10Of course.
00:11Are you going to share it with the rest of us?
00:13Yes.
00:14In 88 minutes.
00:15Oh, my God.
00:18Saturday Night is about the 90 minutes
00:20leading up to the first episode of Saturday Night Live.
00:22You're living it through Lorne Michaels' eyes
00:25and all the pressure that's mounting on his shoulders.
00:29Are you okay?
00:30Maybe ask me again in 90 minutes.
00:31We began doing Zoom calls with anyone we could find
00:34that was in the building on October 11, 1975.
00:37We wanted all their stories.
00:39The writers on the 17th floor tied a belt around Big Bird's neck
00:43and hung him from my dressing room door.
00:45We were trying as much as possible
00:47to recreate a set that we're all very familiar with.
00:50We found the actual original blueprints for Rockefeller Center.
00:54All the engineering, where all the studs were,
00:56how the original floor was built.
00:57The whole set, it's such a living organism.
00:59It enables you to do really long takes, too,
01:01where you're letting the action tell the story.
01:04For the camera to be almost like another actor
01:07and to be moving around us all,
01:08like, you just have your moment where they catch you
01:11and then it's off again.
01:12All the background actors did the whole boot camp
01:14before we started,
01:15so they really know how to use the old 70s cameras
01:18and the cranes and the boom mics and the props,
01:21and they're wheeling it all around.
01:22It really becomes alive so quickly.
01:25Sorry, Lorne.
01:26You feel the same energy with the music.
01:28We recorded the entire score on set, in real time.
01:32It's Saturday Night Live, and we're scoring live.
01:39Jason executed it beautifully,
01:40and it has created an environment on set and on camera
01:45that is really electric
01:46and gives this whole movie an insane energy.
01:50I mean, Lorne, 90 minutes of live television
01:52by a group of 20-year-olds who have never made anything!
01:55They brought comedy to television
01:57in a way that hadn't been done before.
02:00You cannot say horny on NBC.
02:03What is clam diving?
02:04I believe the act of harvesting mollusks.
02:07I want the audience to know exactly what it feels like
02:09when millions of people are about to watch
02:11what a handful of writers, actors, craftspeople
02:15cobbled together in a matter of days.
02:17And minutes before, I want them to feel like,
02:19is this possible?
02:21You are so fluffy.
02:23Hey, come on, Eddie.
02:25Come on, Eddie.
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