Despite the fact that we’re properly previous the Halloween season, spooky tales are all the time welcome round these elements, particularly when hilarious celebrities are concerned. On this occasion, we’re speaking about Saturday Night time Stay vet and MacGruber star Will Forte, who shared a bonkers story about having a Ouija Board expertise as an adolescent that predicted he’d get stabbed to dying as an older man. Yikes…
With Ouija Boards getting highlighted in Agatha All Alongside just lately, I suppose the spirit world was primed for extra headline consideration within the type of Forte’s look on fellow SNL alum Rachel Dratch’s podcast Woo Woo with Rachel Dratch. Within the midst of speaking about previous street journeys and different reminiscences, the actor began his prophecy-focused anecdote, saying he was 16 or 17 years previous when he visited a lady he was serious about who was associates with a self-proclaimed witch who’d introduced a Ouija Board over.
Forte says they initially requested random inquiries to the spirits of the board with out a lot religion, however mentioned he was a bit shocked every time the spirits appeared to know his grandmother’s center identify. For readability, he did say he was suspicious about unconsciously guiding the planchette along with his personal arms, however didn’t assume that was the case. Nonetheless, the Nebraska star mentioned he wasn’t taking it very critically within the second, and went towards the others’ recommendation by trolling the “spirit” they have been speaking to.
There have been completely different spirits that we’d encounter, and a few could be type of aggressive and violent. And she or he’d be warning us, ‘Okay, watch out. You wish to watch out with this man.’ And I used to be simply being such a ache within the ass. I might be placing the spirit down, attempting to get him actually offended. Like, I am positive I advised him he had a small penis or one thing like that. However I used to be simply being a ache. However, like, it actually did get type of type of scary.
Whereas it doesn’t appear as if the youngsters have been coping with any specters that reached a Ouija: Origin of Evil degree of terror — Forte himself introduced up the 1986 horror Witchboard as a comparability — no matter they have been speaking to adopted up on the actor’s insults by predicting his sure doom…a long time later. As he put it:
One of many issues that that the Ouija board had advised me was, we requested it how I used to be gonna die. . . . I discovered that I used to be going to die on the age of 73 by stabbing. So I obtained 19 years left.
Already, Rachel Dratch and co-host Irene Bremis have been shocked and mildly freaked out by Will Forte being so brazen and caution-free along with his spirit world shenanigans, and shared related reactions to that doom-saying prediction. Granted, it was principally surmised that the reason for dying was so excessive, versus some type of intestinal most cancers, as a result of it was nearly positively one of many teen’s brains that conceived the thought to start with.
When requested if he ever nonetheless thinks about that prediction in any type of a critical method, Forte answered with:
I do not actually spend an excessive amount of time eager about it, however every now and then, after I inform this story, I do assume like, ‘Oh, after I’m 72 after I’m nearing the top, do I like, begin wanting into full-body Kevlar fits?’
If there is a level 18 years from now when Will Forte indicators on to begin within the film Kevlar Kowboys or some foolish shit like that, then we’ll know the rationale why.
In terms of initiatives which might be really taking place, Will Forte is at present filming the star-studded new TV present The 4 Seasons, based mostly on the 1981 movie of the identical identify, with wildly proficient co-stars corresponding to fellow SNL alum Tina Fey, Colman Domingo, Kerry Kinney, and Steve Carrell. That present can be out there to stream with a Netflix subscription sooner or later throughout the 2025 TV schedule or past.
Here is hoping Forte makes a return to Saturday Night time Stay for its milestone season, even when he is not one of many Season 50 visitor hosts or musical acts.