The Will & Harper star asked about where filming took place and the commute once Yang revealed Wicked shot in London. He said his plans for the crazy work schedule came after his SNL boss laid out the requirements for him to do both:

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.”

"All of us were in shambles by the end," Yang told PEOPLE. "Sarah Sherman was sobbing, and she was like, 'I didn't expect to love it this much.' It will get you. It flattens every demographic. Everyone gets bowled over no matter what they're going into it ...

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,