Even After Playing the Young Spielberg, Gabriel Labelle Would Have ‘Doed Anything’ to Play Lorne Michaels on ‘Saturday Night’

You know what they say: two is a trend. When most audiences first met Canadian rising star Gabriel Labelle, it was in Steven Spielberg’s 2022 “The Fabelmans,” in which the beloved American author told his own semi-autobiographical origin story, with Labelle starring as his cinematic avatar , the novice filmmaker Sammy Fabelman. Kind of a crazy introduction to Hollywood, right?

But while Labelle enjoyed the role – and received high praise for it, including winning Best Young Performer at the 28th Critics’ Choice Awards and the National Board of Review’s Breakthrough Performance award (an award he shared with ‘Till ‘, the standout Danielle Deadwyler) – he was also keen to embrace original films. That included Adam Carter Rehmeier’s well-known coming-of-age charmer “Snack Shack,” a ’90s comedy that helped tickle Labelle’s itch to fully create a character (and a role he won while still in production on ‘The Fabelmans’). ).

But where…