Regardless of stress to select John Cena as an alternative, SZA stood agency on casting Ben Stiller in her “Drive” video and later thanked him for saying sure.
SZA refused to budge when her workforce pushed for John Cena as an alternative of Ben Stiller to star in her “Saturn”-era music video for “Drive,” insisting the position was meant for the comedy icon and nobody else.
The Grammy-winning singer revealed on The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott that she was unwavering in her imaginative and prescient for the December video,
“Saturn” options the Zoolander actor lip-syncing behind the wheel earlier than stepping out to carry out a string of awkward, offbeat dance strikes.
“I can’t thanks sufficient. I can’t even imagine you mentioned sure,” SZA informed Stiller throughout the podcast. “Full transparency, proper, they tried to get me to concede to John Cena and I used to be like, ‘No.’”
“I really like John Cena; shout-out to fine-ass John Cena. I used to be like, ‘No, I would like my Ben, please.’ I can’t even imagine you mentioned sure. They had been like, ‘No, no, no, it’s too far-fetched, it’s by no means gonna occur.’ And I used to be like, ‘OK, nicely, I can’t see it every other manner.’”
SZA mentioned her admiration for Stiller runs deep, calling him a lifelong supply of happiness and creativity. “You’ve introduced me a lot pleasure and inspiration my whole f###### life,” she mentioned.
Stiller, who directed and produced Apple TV+’s Severance, responded with fun, saying, “So joyful that John Cena didn’t get it.”
Their collaboration got here after a playful change on social media in Could 2023, when SZA publicly demanded the second season of Severance “proper the f### now.” Stiller replied, “Okay okay obtained it,” prompting SZA to stroll it again and inform him to take his time. That on-line second finally led to her visitor look on the present’s companion podcast.
