Reneé Rapp is taking just a little break from music to brush on her lip-reading expertise.
The 24-year-old Mean Girls star, who made her musical visitor debut throughout Saturday Night Live on Jan. 20, joined host and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi in a hilarious sketch about “professional lip-readers” who try to decipher secret conversations between superstar {couples} like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
“We pick up on extremely subtle lip movements and body language to decipher exactly what someone might be saying,” Elordi explains to a pair of Entertainment Tonight hosts, performed by SNL solid members Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim.
After Elordi and his sharply dressed parter Bowen Yang try — and fail — to precisely learn the lips of celebs like Timothée Chalamet, Kylie Jenner and Jennifer Lawrence from current awards ceremonies, the ET hosts skeptically query their expertise.
“Our lip readings hold up in court — we’ve had people put away for life!” Elordi says defensively. Yang’s character provides, “We’ll show you. We just need assistance from our little lesbian intern Reneé.”
Rapp, dressed in a black blazer and white shirt with matching tie, steps out to tell viewers that she’s been assigned “40 hours of court-ordered media training” as a result of she’s been “going absolutely off in every single interview lately.”
The Broadway vet proceeds to point out off her lip-reading expertise by studying the lips of attorny Kristin VanOrman and Gwyneth Paltrow from the actress’ 2023 ski collision trial.
Watch the “Entertainment Tonight Lip-Readers” SNL sketch beneath. For these with out cable, the printed streams on Peacock, which you’ll join on the hyperlink right here. Having a Peacock account additionally provides followers entry to earlier SNL episodes.
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