'SNL' Fans Applaud 'Good Sport' Julia Stiles After 'Save the Last Dance' Bit

Julia Stiles

When Saturday Day Night Live roasts a celebrity in one of its bits, it's one of the highest honors—and Julia Stiles was certainly a good sport after the comedy sketch show roasted her Save the Last Dance routine.

During the "Weekend Update" segment of SNL, Colin Jost and Michael Che invited Chloe Fineman to share "intimate gift ideas for that special someone."

"The sexiest gift you can give your partner is trying something new in the bedroom," she explained. "The perfect holiday gift this year is the dance that Julia Stiles does at the end of the 2001 movie, Save the Last Dance."

Fineman removed her Santa suit robe, revealing a black leotard and shorts underneath, and performed moves from an iconic dance film. As she hilariously busted "street ballet" moves, Fineman summarized the plot of the movie.

In Save the Last Dance, Stiles portrayed Sara, a dancer who auditions to get into Juilliard but fails—on the same night her mother dies in a car crash. After she moves to the South Side of Chicago and attends a more urban high school, she learns hip-hop. Ultimately, Sara lands another Juilliard audition. Her crush, Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas) skips a drive-by shooting to support her.

"So does she get into Juilliard?" Jost asked before Stiles popped into the camera's view next to Fineman, yelling, "Yes!"

The SNL crowd went wild, and Stiles explained, "Sara did get into Juilliard."

"How?" Fineman asked.

"Well, you didn't see the end of the dance," Stiles said, as two chairs were procured and the women performed the final moves together.

SNL viewers reacted to the skit on social media, with one X user writing, "Julia Stiles is a very good sport."

Another person tweeted, "Julia Stiles showing up on #SNL ?!?! THAT WAS AMAZING!!!"

Yet another viewer wrote, "Chloe Fineman doing choreography of Save The Last Dance as a skit on Weekend Update only to have Julia Stiles join her was a great dose of nostalgia."

For those who want the full dose of nostalgia, Save the Last Dance is streaming on Paramount+.

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