Kim Kardashian Westwas under a major time crunch when it came time to switch looks in betweenSaturday Night Liveskits.
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One fan sitting in the audience during Kardashian West’sSNLhosting debut captured a video right as her"Dream Guy" skitcame to a close. As soon as the segment ended and the audience applauded, Kardashian West didn’t even have a second to take in the moment. Instead, she sprinted off set and grabbed on to anSNLdresser who pulled her backstage as quickly as possible.
Making sure the actors can make all their wardrobe changes in time comes down to a science, theSNLwardrobe department explained in aYouTube video.
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Donna Richards, who was captured helping Kardashian West, isSNL’s longtime “host dresser” and will do whatever it takes to help each host get ready for their next skit. “Yeah I carried J.Lo once on my back, piggyback. She was in really, really high heels of course from the monologue. I grabbed her and she couldn’t run in those so I just put her onto my back like this,” Richards explained.
“I’m ripping clothes this way. At the same time, pants are going down and shoes are coming off as I’m doing the over the head stuff so wigs then can happen. So we all have to be working at the same time,” Richards added.
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The most difficult part, Richards said, is the first-ever quick change a host needs to do. “When they’ve never hostedSNLbefore that first change is always a shock to them.”
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Richards said the amount of time allotted for wardrobe changes is never the same (it can usually be around a minute or so), but the shortest she ever worked on was a 10-second change withJustin Timberlakefor his December 2006 hosting gig.
“There was no commercial break, no nothing. We had never rehearsed it but you can’t say no!” she said.
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Luckily, thanks to the help of Richards and the SNL team, all of Kardashian West’s changes went off without a hitch.
The SKIMS mogul was “nervous” ahead of herSNLdebut, a source told PEOPLE. “She was very focused all week though and worked hard.Kanye [West]was around in N.Y.C. this weekfor support and guidance,” the insider said.
“After hosting, she was happy and felt good about how it went. It was a big deal to her. After she accepted the hosting gig, she had moments of doubt,” the source added. “It was ultimately something that she just had to do. She is very happy that she got the opportunity to host.”
source: people.com
