Bowen Yang 'highly' recommends hooking up with Sydney Sweeney after “SNL” sketch: 'She has all men on lock'
"It doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight or anything in between, men just love her and she’s right."
Bowen Yang only has positive things to say about his experience making out with Sydney Sweeney for a Saturday Night Live sketch earlier this year.
While visiting The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, the gay comedian shared that the strangest moment he's had on the comedy series over the last six years was pretending to be a straight man who hooks up with the Anyone But You actress in a sketch.
“One of the weirdest was something I only have myself to blame for,” Yang said. “We wrote a sketch called ‘Bowen’s Straight’ where… I exerted my range, I played a heterosexual version of myself seducing Sydney Sweeney.”
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But, offscreen, it was Sweeney who charmed him. “She is such a good, committed actor that she made me believe she’s in love with me,” he said. “And that was the craziest feeling.”
The sketch, which aired while Sweeney was hosting the show on March 2, sees the pair embark on a short-lived situationship after she discovers that Yang only "plays gay on the show because it's a shortcut to laughs.” The pair hook up, but ultimately go their separate ways after Yang reveals that he can’t date her because he has to “keep up appearances with the whole gay thing,” adding, “It's sort of my meal ticket.”
Yang explained to host Stephen Colbert that he spoke to Sweeney about their “love scene” prior to filming. “I was like, ‘Hey, if at any point you’re uncomfortable, we have an intimacy coordinator there. You can tap out at any time if you’re not feeling it, like, no problem. We just want you to feel safe and secure and all that,’” he recalled. “And then she touches my shoulder and goes, ‘Bowen, I’m on Euphoria.’”
Sweeney starred as Cassie Howard on Sam Levinson's Emmy award-winning drama — which is known for not holding back when it comes to featuring explicit sexual content — since its very first season.
Sweeney wasn’t done picking on Yang just yet, though. “Her parting shot as I left the room was, she goes, ‘And you’re living every gay man’s dream right now: you get to have sex with me,’” he said. “And I was like, oh, she knows that she has all men on lock. Like, it doesn’t matter if you’re gay or straight or anything in between, men just love her and she’s right.”
He concluded, “Yeah, I highly recommend hooking up with Sydney Sweeney if you’re a man.”
The experience has continued to stick with Yang in the months since the sketch aired. "I think I understand why Austin Butler talked like Elvis for a while after the movie," he joked during a Late Night With Seth Meyers interview in March. "So I think for a couple more weeks, I’m still straight. Ladies, get in there."
Watch Yang recall hooking up with Sweeney in the clip above.
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