Watch Julia Stiles Reprise Her ‘Save the Last Dance’ Routine on ‘SNL’

Still looking for the perfect holiday gift to surprise your loved ones with? Have you thought of a step-by-step guide to a beloved Julia Stiles dance number? Because Chloe Fineman sure is.

During the December 9 episode of Saturday Night LiveStiles stops by the “Weekend Update” desk with a special gift guide suggestion.

“I only have one love gift idea and I have to show it off,” Fineman said to host Colin Jost’s faint heartbreak at the start of the show. “The best gift you can give your partner is to try something new in the bedroom.”

As Jost watches nervously for his audience, his team-mate, Michael Che, whips up a bucket of popcorn just in time for Fineman to show off his crazy dance skills.

“The best holiday gift this year is the dance performed by Julia Stiles at the end of the 2001 movie. Save the Last Dance” he announced, before saying “punch” and jumping into the dance.

Black leotard, sweatpants, and all, Fineman then performs the hip-hop-influenced tap number at the end of the film. He also joined with Che to offer Jost a much needed story from the movie, which also stars Sean Patrick Thomas, to summarize his plot, which leads to a Midwestern dancer, Sara (Stiles). , on the south side of Chicago, which. he adds hip-hop to his dance routine just in time for his second shot at the Juilliard audition.

By the time they finish the outline, Jost has enough money to ask if Sara passed her last audition — and who better to answer the question than Julia Stiles herself?

“Yeah,” Stiles yelled, jumping in with an outfit that matched Fineman’s. “Sarah went into Juilliard.”

Naturally, this required Stiles and Fineman to work together and show the rest of Sara’s Juilliard-qualified performance from their seats. In the end, street programming was re-approved.

“I can’t say this on the record, but welcome to Juilliard,” Jost said at the end of the show.

Apparently, Stiles is taking a big step down memory lane this week. On Wednesday, he paid tribute to one of his beloved films while speaking at the Mash-Up Americans Book Festival in New York. A touching clip shared on Instagram showed her re-enacting the scene where she recites the love poem her character Kat Stratford wrote for Heath Ledger’s Patrick Verona in the teen comedy. 10 Things I Hate About You.

Stiles even said the line that famously brought Kat to tears: “But mostly, I hate the way I don’t hate you, not close, not a little, it is nothing.”

Watch as Stiles does it to him again Save the Last Dance numbers in the clip above.

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