Yang, who’s worked on “Saturday Night Live” since 2018, says he was “really hesitant” to see the film. In “Wicked,” Yang plays Pfannee (pronounced “fanny”), a student at Shiz University and one of Glinda’s (Ariana Grande) friends — or, as Yang puts it, Glinda’s “publicists.”

Bowen Yang said in a recent interview with People that he shared a special moment watching the final cut of 'Wicked' with his 'SNL' co-stars.

Bowen Yang watched the final cut of Wicked with some of his Saturday Night Live costars — and the movie left them all a blubbering mess. The comedian, who plays Pfannee in the new big-screen musical,

The SNL star addressed a hilarious viral tweet after a user online posted, “Troye Sivan has the SNL writers in a chokehold,” and another user responded, saying, “It’s just Bowen Yang.”

Bowen Yang and his SNL castmates watched the musical together, leaving them in tears as their emotions ran high. The 34-year-old actor and comedian, who plays Pfanee in the musical, disclosed

While fighting off a heat-induced panic on the set of Hot Ones, Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang explained that one particular scene in Wicked made him similarly break down. In the latest episode of the long-running interview series,

Bowen Yang’s banner year has been more than two decades in the making. Ahead of the film’s Nov. 22 premiere, Yang tells PEOPLE that he first watched the final cut of the film alongside his SNL castmates during a special screening earlier this year,