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Miami Vice ’85 stars Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler made a brief cameo on the Nov. 7 edition of Saturday Night Live.
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The stars appeared during the closing segment of the Druski-hosted episode.
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The SNL goodnights also saw Emma Stone, Walton Goggins, Dave Chappelle, and Chris Rock take to the stage.
Studio 8H was overflowing with stars at the end of <a href="https://ew.com/snl-recap-season-52-druski-hosts-the-strokes-12240681″ rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank”>Druski’s hosting debut.
After the comedian made history as the first digital content creator to host Saturday Night Live, he bid farewell to the crowd while backed by an impressive roster of A-listers. Not only was he flanked on either side by two SNL legends (we’ll get to them in a second), eagle-eyed fans may have noticed that among the celebs standing onstage were Miami Vice ’85stars Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler.
Jordan and Butler, who are currentlyfilming the Joseph Kosinski neo-noirin New York and New Jersey, showed up for a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo, hanging out in the background behind cast members and guests during the SNL goodnights. Jordan can be seen applauding from the second row while Butler stood further back and was harder to spot beneath a baseball cap.
Standing beside Druski, front and center, was SNL alum Chris Rock and four-time host Dave Chapelle, who has been known to pop in for the end of the show. Their presence came as a surprise to Druski, who was bidding the audience farewell when they showed up to embrace him.
“Oh man,” Druski exclaimed. “Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock! Oh my God!”
Also amongst the crowd were Emma Stone, Walton Goggins, and newly-elected Texas senator James Talerico, who all cameoed during the episode. Druski shouted each of them out during his final remarks before turning to embrace Rock and Chappelle once again. Afterwards, Jordan emerged from the crowd, much to Druski’s shock and delight.
The social media star stumbled at the sight of Jordan, who embraced him as well.
Set to the jazzy theme song, the closing moments saw Chappelle wandering the stage with a cigarette in hand while Stone embraced Butler, her Eddington costar.
Though Jordan and Butler didn’t appear in any sketches, their presence may have to do with the fact that Goggins also stars inMiami Vice ’85and may have invited them along to witness the fun. Deadline previously reported that Goggins fills a villainous role in the reboot, as a henchman of the cartel king played by John Leguizamo.
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Jordan and Butler are set to take over the classic roles of detective duo Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett in the movie reboot based on the popular 1980s TV series. Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson starred as Tubbs and Crockett in the original crime drama, a pair of Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami, Fla. The new film, inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the series, will explore the “glamour and corruption of mid-80s Miami.”
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