
Dua Lipa will have a busy first week of May as she has been roped in for hosting and acting duties as the musical guest for the next episode of Saturday Night Live. SNL will have Dua on the May 4 episode pulling double duty.
The announcement was made during Saturday’s episode hosted by Ryan Gosling. The episode had music from Chris Stapleton.
The news comes as Dua Lipa gets ready for her upcoming third studio album titled Radical Optimism which is slated for release on May 3.
This is not the first time Dua will get behind the cameras. She was last seen in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie as one of the dolls from the Mattel world. She also starred in the big-budget spy adventure Argylle.
She recently spoke about her upcoming album as she told Variety, “I think for me, the importance of understanding that when things are bad, there’s always some light at the end of the tunnel. I always think about it like, when I’m in the midst of a mess of turmoil or everything’s going wrong, I always tell myself, in a couple months, I’m gonna look back on that moment, and be like, thank God I walked through it.”
“I didn’t decide to hide or not deal with the problem at hand, whatever it is, but actually choose to go through it. And that’s how I grew. And I feel like that just overall, especially in the world right now, I think it’s important that we just learn to walk through the fire and not hide away from it, or shy away from it. That’s just optimism. It’s probably the most daring thing we can do,” she added.
Dua Lipa’s episode of Saturday Night Live will be the 18th of Season 49. Before this, she came on SNL as a musical guest on the Natalie Portman-hosted February 3, 2018 episode and the Kristen Wiig-hosted December 19, 2020 show.