The Eerie Intensity of Adam Driver on <em>Saturday Night Live</em>
The actor offered an idiosyncratic antidote to bland winter cheer.
by Esther Zuckerman
Dec 10, 2023
3 minutes
When this week’s Saturday Night Live host, Adam Driver, explained in his opening monologue that he had a “very deep and personal relationship with Santa,” it was pretty obvious that whatever was to follow wasn’t going to be your typical holiday cheer.
The Oscar-nominated actor sat down at a piano, demonstrated that he really could play it, and then started barking his wish list to the jolly man in the North Pole. Among his wants for in the latest trilogy. “I didn’t kill Han Solo,” he said. “Wokeness killed Han Solo.”
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