It looks like Will Ferrell can add predicting the future to his list of talents.
Molly Shannon was recently featured in Jimmy Kimmel Live!Where she talked about her decades-long friendship with the beloved actor.
She recalled working at Cappuccino, Scone Place in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s, when she met Ferrell through the comedy troupe Groundlings. “We clicked instantly,” she said, noting that they first met at the restaurant where she worked, and that she served him cake and a latte. “We’ve been friends for 30 years.”
They were appointed later Saturday Night Live in 1995, which not only launched them into stardom, but also became an era-defining one for the NBC sitcom.
While contemplating it early SNL days with host jimmy kimmel, Divorce The actress recalled one conversation she had with Ferrell that was surprisingly prescient for modern-day Hollywood.
“One night when we were in… SNL“We were just starting out, and I was so excited, ‘Oh my God, this job is so cool,’” Shannon explained. “And Will was kind of dark and was like, ‘I don’t know.’ Who knows how long this will last?
“I think it won’t last long, and I think actors will eventually be replaced by robots, and they won’t need human actors anymore.” The other two The actress recalled Ferrell telling her.
Shannon admitted that she rejected the idea at first, and focused on a more optimistic outlook for the future: “I thought to myself: What? Are you crazy? You’re so dark.”
However, she said they were “dying laughing now”, after seeing Kev on the nose Barbie The actor’s comments were with the emergence of artificial intelligence and AI players in the industry over the past few years.
However, at the time, Shannon said Ferrell joked that he would be fine no matter what: “He said, ‘I can get a job as a dog groomer or a UPS driver or a trainer and still be happy,’” Shannon said.
In response, Kimmel joked that he had some “bad news” for Ferrell about the UPS driver job, as “this is going to be a robot situation, too. Maybe he can groom dogs, but I feel like they’re going to figure out dog grooming robots before they figure out any of the other stuff.”
In addition SNLShannon and Ferrell have appeared in many films together, including… star (1999), A night in Roxbury (1998) and Talladega Nights: The Ricky Bobby Song (2006), among others. They both also star in an upcoming TV series, FalconCreated by Ferrell.
