--- title: Saturday Night Live: Margot Robbie Will Host Season Premiere description: The 'Suicide Squad' actress will be accompanied by musical guest The Weeknd for the season premiere of 'Saturday Night Live' on October 1. canonical: https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-22T22:03:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:55.255Z og:title: Margot Robbie Will Host the SNL Season Premiere in October og:description: The 'Suicide Squad' actress will be accompanied by musical guest The Weeknd. og:url: https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: "Suicide Squad" - European Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Margot Robbie Will Host the SNL Season Premiere in October twitter:description: The 'Suicide Squad' actress will be accompanied by musical guest The Weeknd. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Margot Robbie Will Host _Saturday Night Live'_s Season Premiere > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 22, 2016 10:03 PM UTC  Margot Robbie attends the European Premiere of "Suicide Squad" at Odeon Leicester Square on August 3, 2016 in London, England. Margot Robbie attends the European Premiere of "Suicide Squad" at Odeon Leicester Square on August 3, 2016 in London, England. Fred Duval—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 22, 2016 10:03 PM UTC [_Suicide Squad_ star](http://time.com/4368577/margot-robbie-suicide-squad-harley-quinn/?iid=sr-link1) Margot Robbie is on a roll: the [Aussie actress](http://time.com/4394682/margot-robbie-aussie-slang/?iid=sr-link3) will host the season premiere of NBC’s _Saturday Night Live_ alongside musical guest The Weeknd on Oct. 1. The live comedy show is a rite of passage of sorts for celebrities. And while some of Robbie’s roles to date have been of the dramatic variety (as Leonardo DiCaprio’s wife in [_The Wolf of Wall Street_](http://time.com/4368577/margot-robbie-suicide-squad-harley-quinn/?iid=sr-link1), for instance), her turn as the diabolical Harley Quinn in _Suicide Squad_ and her precise comedic timing [in ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDa3HXRU6Y)[_The Big Short_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbDa3HXRU6Y)prove she’s got plenty of comedic range for SNL to work with. Robbie also recently announced that she will be [starring in and co-producing](http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard/margot-robbie-to-produce-suicide-squad-spin-off) a _Suicide Squad_ spin-off about her character. The Weeknd, meanwhile, [just released the first single](http://time.com/4503770/weeknd-new-single-starboy-daft-punk/?iid=sr-link1) off of his upcoming third studio album, _Starboy._ > [](https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/779074322057101313) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/"},"headline":"Margot Robbie Will Host Saturday Night Live's Season Premiere","datePublished":"2016-09-22T22:03:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:55.255Z","description":"The Weeknd will perform","url":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2d48b8af87acc4f7/6988a740cd1bbaabe1702716/margot-robbie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Suicide Squad\" - European Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals","caption":"\"Suicide Squad\" - European Premiere - Red Carpet Arrivals","creditText":"Fred Duval—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4505214/saturday-night-live-premiere-margot-robbie/","name":"Margot Robbie Will Host Saturday Night Live's Season Premiere"}}]}] ```