The actor stars as an NBC page in the recently released film
Finn Wolfhard dreams of one day stepping on Saturday Night Live‘s Studio 8H stage.
In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE as he promotes his partnership with Ring, the actor, 21, also opens up about his role in Saturday Night and what his dream SNL hosting gig would look like.
Thinking about an SNL moment that he would want to recreate or put a fresh spin on, Wolfhard points to the Underground Rock Festival sketch, which followed a hardcore rock and rap festival hosted by D.J. Supersoak (Jason Sudeikis) and Lil’ Blaster (Nasim Pedrad).
“They were hosts of this terrible metal festival, and they would do themed commercials announcing the lineup,” Wolfhard says. “I was watching that recently and I thought it was so funny because it’s just an excuse to basically name a bunch of random bands. I think that sketch would be really funny to bring back.”
As for a dream musical guest should he ever host SNL, the Stranger Things star says, “I think it’d be fun to have an indie rock band or a ’90s alt band. I think that’d be cool.”
Wolfhard’s latest film role is directed by Jason Reitman and follows the 90 minutes before SNL went live for the first time on Oct. 11, 1975.
“Full of humor, chaos and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn’t, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words,” a plot synopsis for the film reads.
In the project, Gabriel LaBelle stars as SNL creator Lorne Michaels, with Dylan O’Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase and Lamorne Morris as Garrett Morris. The main cast features Ella Hunt as Gilda Radner, Emily Fairn as Laraine Newman, Kim Matula as Jane Curtin and Matt Wood as John Belushi.
In addition to the SNL cast, the movie includes some big names such as Nicholas Podany as Billy Crystal, Nicholas Braun as Jim Henson, Kaia Gerber as Jacqueline Carlin, Rachel Sennott as Rosie Shuster, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son Cooper Hoffman as Dick Ebersol, Jon Batiste as musician Billy Preston, Willem Dafoe as David Tebet and J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle.