SNL 1975 Cast: Willem Dafoe Joins Saturday Night Live Movie

The upcoming SNL 1975 movie is continuing to grow its impressively large cast, with Deadline reporting that Willem Dafoe has joined on the currently-in-production project.

According to Deadline, Dafoe will play David Tebet in the upcoming film. Tebet was an American theater publicist and network executive who worked at NBC from 1956-1979.

During his tenure at the company, his biggest accomplishment was recruiting Johnny Carson to fill in as host of The Tonight Show for Jack Paar, a role that would see both Carson and The Tonight Show launch into superstardom.

Set in 1975, the upcoming movie will chronicle the events leading up to the premiere of the very first episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live.

Who else is in SNL 1975?

SNL 1975 is being directed by Jason Reitman from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gil Kenan. It is being produced by Reitman, Kenan, Jason Blumenfeld, Erica Mills and Peter Rice.

The ensemble cast of SNL 1975 includes Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol, Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase, Matt Wood as John Belushi, Nicholas Braun as Jim Henson, Tommy Dewey as Michael O’Donoghue, Nicholas Podany as Billy Crystal, Andrew Barth Feldman as Neil Levy, Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, J.K. Simmons as comedian Milton Berle, and more.

The first episode of Saturday Night Live was broadcast on October 11, 1975, when a group of young comedians and writers, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, George Coe, Jane Curtin, Garrett, Morries, Larraine Newman, and Michael O’Donoghue changed television forever. Reitman and Kenan are conducting a series of interviews with all living cast, writers, and crew who were present during the first night.

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