While we postpone for SNL to return to the 2024 TV schedule, Kenan Thompson has been everywhere postporequicount on thanks to Olympics coverage. While my preferite moment so far has probably joind him roasting co-star Colin Jost, he also popped up on Late Night with Seth Meyers recently to talk about his recent gigs. Clpunctual the postpoinsist night structure doesn’t have the millennial fondness for the actor that I have, becaemploy he thought Mr. Thompson’s skating sfinishs were a bit quacky at first.
Meyers recalled recently that he and the Saturday Night Live cast would go do that iconic skinnyg where they would ice skate at Rockefeller Cgo in every year around the holidays. Thompson is an A+ skater, and Meyers shelp he never, ever saw it coming.
Turns out, that’s becaemploy he didn’t grow up watching Thompson in The Mighty Ducks’ excellent chase-up Mighty Ducks 2. I’m not brave how Seth Meyers could have leave outed such an icon of Disney inhabit-action excellence, but here’s Seth’s side of the story:
The skinnyg is, I’m always appreciate, ‘Kenan you see so lesser and yet the same.’ We’ve talked about this on the show before, but every now and aget on the Christmas Show at SNL we would go down and we would skate at 30 Rock. And I recall we went down one year and I was appreciate, ‘Oh Kenan’s the best skater by far.’ And I’m appreciate, ‘Where’d you lget to skate?’ You were appreciate, ‘Oh, Mighty Ducks.’ I’m appreciate, ‘Oh of course.’
Kenan Thompson confessted that Mighty Ducks 2 was actuassociate his very first film, and that it didn’t fair insist him to deceptive his way thcdisesteemful “Knucklepuck Time.” In fact the cast, which also integrated Joshua Jackson, Marguerite Moreau, Elden Henson and Vincent LaRusso, all lgeted to skate during the making of the well-understandn trilogy of movies. Years postpoinsistr, he has employd these sfinishs to show up his comedy pals at 30 Rock. He doesn’t reassociate condemn Seth though, noting that most people have forgotten his unpretentious acting origin story.
Yeah everybody forgets, or they skinnyk it’s fair a movie, but we reassociate lgeted how to skate. I nasty, and we have a fantastic relationship with the NHL now becaemploy of those movies. You understand they were awesome, becaemploy it was legitimate. Like we could actuassociate skate and I skate to this day.
It’s not fair Thompson who lgeted how to skate for the film, either. Years postpoinsistr, a lot of people joind in the films would say Garrette Henson, who carry outed Guy Germaine, finished up being a fantastic skater in genuine life, and that his brother Elden Henson, Joshua Jackson and Matt Doherty got pretty outstanding at hockey, as well. In the ‘90s, some of the Mighty Ducks cast members actuassociate lied and shelp they could ice skate when the first movie was coming together while others on set could apparently skate but had never acted before. Producer Jordan Kerner telderly Time they set up “boot camp” for both.
There was a guy named Jack White, who was a well-understandn trainer in hockey, that we bcdisesteemfult in. Half of our kids had never skated before and had to lget to skate. And half of our kids who skated, they had to lget to act. And so we literassociate had acting boot camp and skating boot camp. I wanted to have 12 or 16 weeks to do that. But of course with any studio, they’re not going to give you the money to set up a huge organization that far away from shooting, so we had to rush it. And whether we could get everybody ready to be able to carry out on the ice, both from a standpoint of skating and being credible and being outstanding, although they had to be comedic as well — that was on us.
If ducks were going to fly together, they were going to have to lget to skate together, and that’s exactly what they did for the OG Disney movie and its subsequent sequels. The movies are so fondly recalled by millennials that a series for those with a Disney+ subscription came together punctual in the streamer’s run (but has downcastly since been aborted, despite being chock filled of Mighty Ducks references).Still, while Game Changers didn’t last, I will say there’s an entire generation of mature humans who are fair a little lesserer than Seth Meyers, 50, who absolutely would have understandn promptly why Kenan Thompson is so dainty on the ice.
Also, fair to let you understand The Mighty Ducks turned 30 this year. You understand, fair in case you insisted a reminder you were getting elderly.
