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Saturday Night Live is preparing for its milestone 50th season this fall on the 2024 TV schedule, and it’s still baffling to me what happens behind the scenes. Since the variety sketch series is of course live, anything can happen. That also accounts for what goes on when it comes to quick changes and getting ready for the next sketch, as an SNL creative shared a story from when Emma Stone hosted.

The Poor Things actress marked a major milestone with her most recent guest hosting gig, joining the elite Five-Timers Club last December. Hair department head Jodi Mancuso and makeup department head Louie Zakarian spoke to Variety about some of the behind-the-scenes secrets for Season 49 of SNL, including one particular sketch involving Stone.

“I know that one of the key deciding factors for me was over the past seven years leading up to, you know, this past year I’d been gone so much,” Conseulos shared. “I’d been, you know, in different countries, different states, on a d— airplane every week if not twice a week.”

“Sometimes I’d come see you for 24 hours and get back on a plane and go back to work, and so I was kind of tired of living by myself,” he continued. “I don’t sleep well when I’m away from you. I literally don’t sleep.”