Mike Myers has continued to make headlines after wearing a “Canada is Not for Sale” T-shirt on “Saturday Night Live” back in March. Now, Myers is defending his decision to publicly support Canada after Elon Musk said that it was “not a real country.”
While Myers originally didn’t plan on making a remark or statement, the “Austin Powers” and “Shrek” star began getting “angrier and angrier” throughout the night, he told the New York Times. “What happened came from my ankles and from my brain and from my heart, and it was not about me — it was about my country. I wanted to send a message home to say that I’m with you, you know.”
While making his first “SNL” appearance in over 10 years, he mouthed “elbows up” to the camera twice. This past month, Myers reprised his role as Trump’s right-hand man, Musk, in a cold open, where he addressed the rise in Tesla cars getting vandalized and attacked.
Myers went on to tell the New York Times how “no one is more Canadian than a person who no longer lives in Canada. We love America. We love you guys. We don’t understand what this madness is.”
Myers is far from the first celebrity to use the “SNL” stage as an opportunity to speak out since Trump was elected to office. Recently, Trump’s tariffs were front and center as James Austin Johnson played the president, saying: “Remind you of anyone? I also got rid of money last week, but instead of one temple, I did a whole country. Maybe even the globe.”
From Variety US