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Will Ferrell’s ‘SNL’ Castmate Reveals His Eerie Prediction
April 17, 2026
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REUTERS/Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTubeWill Ferrell had a “dark” feeling about “robots” and the future of Hollywood 30 years ago, his castmate Molly Shannon revealed.During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday, Shannon recalled the early career moment when the prediction hit her now-longtime friend. “One night when we were at SNL, we had just started, and I was so excited, like, ‘Oh my God, this job’s so great.’ And Will was kind of dark, and he was like, ‘I don’t know.
Who knows how long this is going to last?’ This was 30 years ago,” she explained. “He goes, ‘I really don’t think, I don’t know It’s not going to last long, and I think actors are eventually going to be replaced by robots, and they’re not going to need human actors anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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