Tom Holland on SNL hosting and dyslexia

    by Capucine · old hollywood: Tom Holland

    Tom Holland opened up about why he hasn't hosted Saturday Night Live yet, citing his dyslexia and the pressure of reading cue cards live. Amy Poehler's comeback? "People have fully been on drugs and hosted."

    Transcript (en)

    I've never done SNL. Because of the cue cards. I'm just so petrified at the concept of like trying to read something. Oh, this is interesting. And they change. Well, I'm sure they have had many dyslexics host. Totally. It's just that like for me, I can read fine. Yeah. But when I have to read out loud, it just becomes like a kind of, it's like a mental block. Yeah. And I can freeze. So for me, my worst day at work is the read through. like at the read through I will really try and highlight everything and learn my lines ahead of time yes so that I'm more kind of skimming it than I am you're kind of remembering it visually but you know it yeah so I've been you know I've been really lucky that they've asked me a few times to do it and the truth is is that I'm actually just really scared at the prospect of I love the show and I love the idea of having fun and making a fool of yourself in such a fun creative way it's just that thing of the cue cards you have to remember there have been people that have hosted that have been fully on drugs. Yeah, that is true. That is true. So I think you can do it. And who are those people? I'll tell you how. You can tell. You tell me the boiling rock, I'll tell you those people.