Adding yet more intrigue to reports that Morgan Wallen turned down a part in SNL‘s “Big Dumb Line” sketch last weekend, we learned today Joe Jonas was only offered the part Friday night, and was on set less than an hour after being cast.
Posting on Instagram this morning, Saturday Night Live‘s longtime costume designer Tom Broecker wrote of a pair of snafus that kept the show’s costume team on their toes late last week.
Though he did not share the context, Broecker wrote that the show’s associate costume designer Bryan Matechen “had 51 minutes from casting, shopping, fitting to on camera” to get Jonas ready Friday night. That Jonas was only brought in late Friday on very short notice would seem to suggest that Wallen’s decision to not participate came late in the process.
As has been widely reported, the country music star set tongues wagging last week when he walked off stage during the show’s goodnights, posting a social media message shortly afterwards of a private jet with the caption “get me to God’s country.” Neither Wallen nor the show have officially commented on his much-talked about walkoff and speculation around what may have precipitated it, although Wallen has begun selling mech emblazoned with his “God country” quote.
Broecker went on to explain in his instagram post that Jonas’ last-minute casting wasn’t the only hiccup that had the show’s costume design department working on overdrive last week, writing that Marcello Hernandez‘s Benson Boone jumpsut from the show’s “Jury Duty” sketch was crafted by the show’s costume design department in just four hours after they learned at 3pm Saturday that a FedEx package containing the jumpsuit they’d commissioned from Boone’s stylist would not be arriving.
Luckily the show’s designers were able to take one shortcut along the way. As Broecker wrote of the apron worn by Ashley Padilla in her “Weekend Update” bit as Joann of Joann Fabrics, “our amazing @gracemaeolsen worked at Joanne [sic] fabrics in high school and had an original apron in her apartment. Saving us from having to make one.”
Concluding his post, Broeker wrote “This was 24 hours at SNL.”
