Here’s Aubrey Plaza As M3GAN 2.0 For ‘SNL’

Early this year we witnessed the birth of a new horror icon in the form of M3GAN, the killer android with killer dance moves that wowed both critics and audiences and seems destined to headline a franchise with multiple installments.

Well, SNL ran with that concept, dressing up a few of its cast members and host Aubrey Plaza as M3GANs for a 2.0 update of the concept, leaning into the fact that M3GAN has not just become a new horror icon, but a new gay horror icon. I’m never quite sure how this happens (The Babadook is also a gay horror icon), but the idea is that this new theoretical M3GAN movie would embrace that honorific.

There are more M3GAN dances, and Aubrey Plaza’s M3GAN offers clubgoers poppers at one point. Unsurprisingly, the actress is great at playing a dead-eyed murder robot, a role she was frankly born to play. Plaza has been positively on fire as of late, as last year alone we saw her in The White Lotus season 2 and the terrific Emily the Criminal. Also appearing in the skit is actual M3GAN star Allison Williams in a brief cameo where she’s recognized as herself for a…particularly memorable scene in Girls.

As for M3GAN herself, the original doll was played by a combination of young dancer Amie Donald with Jenna Davis doing the voice that was digital altered for its final form. There has not been word on an actual M3GAN 2.0 as of yet, but I would not be surprised if we heard about one soon, and if that was also literally the name of it. I’m not sure you can really do M2GAN and have that make sense.

The M3GAN skit probably wasn’t even the most talked-about thing Aubrey Plaza did on SNL yesterday, as she not only returned as April Ludgate for Weekend Update, but she was joined by ex-SNL cast member Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, reuniting them for the first time since the series went off the air. You catch watch that below:

Aubrey Plaza actually auditioned for and was rejected by SNL in the past, but my, my, how the turntables. Everyone is looking forward to whatever she does next now, which will be Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Marvel’s Coven of Chaos, a role she took just so she could act with Kathryn Hahn again. Cannot wait.

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