Inde Navarrette Hosts SNL Halloween Episode, Takes Shot at Shane Gillis and Reveals Rogue Casting
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Rising star Inde Navarrette made her Saturday Night Live hosting debut on Halloween night, taking aim at a fellow host's controversial monologue and announcing a surprise Marvel casting.
Actress Inde Navarrette, the 25-year-old star of the horror hit "Obsession," hosted Saturday Night Live on Halloween night, making her first appearance at Studio 8H. The episode opened with a Trump-centric cold open that brought back Tom Hanks as his beloved David S. Pumpkins character. In her monologue, Navarrette played up her distance from her "Obsession" character Nikki, joking that unlike Nikki she has a perfectly relaxed relationship with her boyfriend — before the camera cut to Nick Aiello in the audience, bound and gagged to a chair. She also took a clear swing at Shane Gillis, who had drawn widespread criticism earlier in the month for a lazy joke about women dressing like "whores" at the gym in brightly coloured shorts. Navarrette referenced her Marvel fitness preparation by casually describing putting on her "little whore outfit" before hitting the gym — a pointed callback to Gillis's phrasing rather than a direct quote. She also revealed she has been cast as Rogue in an upcoming X-Men film, a Marvel announcement that drew significant attention online.
