Kate McKinnon says good-bye during her final episode of SNL. Photo: Will Heath/NBC “Earth, I love ya! Thanks for letting me stay a while.” This was Kate McKinnon’s way of saying good-bye to SNL during her final episode in May 2022, dressed up as her recurring character and alien abductee Colleen Rafferty.
Well, I definitely didn’t have anything for that week, I know that. Usually when that happens, you just sort of scrounge and try to do something, but every so often someone will put a miracle in your lap. The two of them came up to me with this idea about a woman who gets short shrift during an alien abduction, and I thought it was so funny. See, Mikey understands that I’m kind of … I don’t dress so fancy.
I knew that she would have hair that was short — kind of a haircut that suggests a person who doesn’t want to have to deal with anything and has gone a little gray and is just sort of like, “I don’t care, you guys,” and has clothes that also say, “I don’t care, you guys.” And she’s a very avoidant person — she’s not going to try to make life better than it is. She’s resigned, and she is able to find joy in what she knows is her reality anyway, and to have a sense of humor about that.
In general, I think that despite the fact that you’re reading off cue cards, if the audience can watch you genuinely connect with someone in the sketch — if they can witness a genuine spark of friendship or of two people genuinely reaching out and, in some cases, physically touching each other — then it’s all the more fun to watch and feels all the more real. I forget who pitched me doing that with his butt, but it just seemed like someone ought to, I guess.
The last version of this sketch, of course, was your good-bye sketch in your final episode. Before we talk about leaving, I want to ask you about why you decided to stay as long as you did, especially as many cast members had left in the past when they started getting the actor roles you have been getting.
I anticipated it being this moment of absolute release, and it was, in a way. But it certainly was not the most meaningful moment of the whole thing … Jesus Christ, Kate, come on, get it together. It was not the most meaningful moment of the decade in the way that I thought it might be. The most meaningful moments, just looking back, were like … [Cries.] Okay. Long pause for crying, sorry.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: commondreams - 🏆 530. / 51 Read more »
Source: FOX4 - 🏆 289. / 63 Read more »
Source: PhoneArena - 🏆 322. / 59 Read more »
Source: TeenVogue - 🏆 481. / 51 Read more »
Source: TeenVogue - 🏆 481. / 51 Read more »
Source: PistonHeads - 🏆 553. / 51 Read more »