Benicio Del Toro made a surprise cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live tonight, joining host Bad Bunny and frequent collaborator Marcello Hernandez in a sketch spoofing the idiosyncrasies of the Spanish language.
Set in a medieval Spain, Bad Bunny and Hernandez were seen explaining to a cohort of scholars the reasoning behind why certain nouns were masculine or feminine.
“Yes, the ocean is a boy because it is fun, but sometimes, for no reason, it kill you,” Hernandez said.
Kenan Thompson then made the conclusion that a “girl word is a girl thing.” For example, dress would be feminine. “No, dress [vestido] is a boy,” Bad Bunny clarified.
Meanwhile, the word Bible is feminine “because it’s beautiful,” Bad Bunny said, and “also because, the Bible, everything you wanna do, it say no,” Hernandez added.
The Barcelona delegate, as portrayed by an overly ceceando Mikey Day, suggested skipping the tiresome lecture, only to be taken off camera to be beheaded.
At this point, Hernandez introduced his cousin to list “a few more rules that you’ll only need to remember for school but will be totally useless in real life.”
Enter stage left: Del Toro, fresh off his press tour for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.
“Listen carefully. We will do also formal and informal, like you or You,” he began, drawing the difference between the informal tú and formal usted, both Spanish pronouns for second-person singular.
He continued, “What if the letter ‘r’ lasted a really long time? Like errrrre,” joking about the Spanish rolled R, or trill as it’s known in English, and vibrante múltiple, as it’s known in Spanish.
Watch the sketch above.
