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I’ve certainly been someone whose name is always called up when they hire a woman of color. I mean, it’s exciting to see diversity and change reflected in the cast of SNL. I don’t know that I’ve formulated my thoughts on it, because it does feel new. Has that affected your experience on SNL, as a performer? For one thing, there are more cast members of color and openly LGBTQ voices than there used to be. The show has changed quite a bit since you were part of the main cast. I speak from experience: as someone who wrote on the show, it’s a luxury to know someone’s voice. All the time I’ve put into the show has allowed any writer there to know my voice, so it’s easy to plug in.

I think it’s that, combined with everyone in that building knows how much I love the show and how much I love to play there. Is that a side effect of being inside the show’s COVID bubble? You’ve been popping up in plenty of other roles on SNL this season too. I’ve only spoken to her once, but I genuinely enjoyed it and could have talked to her for hours. That element of her that’s so approachable allowed us to lean into a style of telling it like it is, of someone who feels like they’re your friend or your auntie.īy the way, she is fun to be with.

There is so much wrong going on that I like hearing someone say, “You know what? This isn’t right.” There’s a very conversational and familiar tone in the way she speaks. I don’t see her that way-I really fell in love with her. Was it tough to find a way into her character? Harris is often framed as hard to read, because she doesn’t lead with ideology. It’s probably allowed my secret hermit tendencies to blossom. It’s a good way to weed out the bullsh-t. I’ve enjoyed reassessing everything, in terms of school and work and home and family and friends. That being said, finding four different quiet spaces for children to have school, I find the time spent with family incredibly comforting. I’ve been doing quite a bit of checking in with friends, who keep me up to date and feeling more hopeful, because it’s easy to get down in the dumps. It’s a roller coaster of anxiety and emotion and frustration and sometimes motivation. Plus, you have four school-age kids at home. have been flying back and forth to New York every week for SNL-during a pandemic-on top of a raft of other projects. Here are edited excerpts of that wide-ranging conversation. We discussed Animal’s first release, Rudolph’s prodigious output and how she’s weathering lockdown. Meanwhile, behind the camera, she’s teamed up with her longtime friend Natasha Lyonne to form the production company Animal Pictures. 11, you can hear her on Hulu, leading an amusing virtual culinary tour as the narrator of Eater’s Guide to the World. She recently appeared in Adam Sandler’s Netflix confection Hubie Halloween. She currently lends her voice to animated characters on Netflix’s Big Mouthand Fox’s Bless the Harts.

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The abundance of charm, spontaneity and versatility that make her such a pleasure to watch on live TV have also made her one of Hollywood’s most sought-after comedic performers. She continued to reprise the role throughout 2020 while Harris campaigned for and was elected vice president.Although her triumphant return to SNL, nearly a generation after she graduated from the show’s main cast in 2007, is earning well-deserved praise, it’s far from the only project on Rudolph’s plate. For her portrayal of United States senator and vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.

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She appeared in the NBC fantasy comedy series The Good Place (2018–2020), for which she received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She voiced various characters in the Netflix animated sitcom Big Mouth, which won her Primetime Emmy Awards in 20, and the Fox animated sitcom Bless the Harts. Rudolph starred as Ava Alexander in the NBC sitcom Up All Night, and co-hosted the variety series Maya & Marty with Martin Short. She also provided voice acting roles for the animated films Shrek the Third, Big Hero 6, The Angry Birds Movie, The Emoji Movie, The Willoughbys, The Mitchells vs. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) and later played supporting roles in the films 50 First Dates, A Prairie Home Companion, and Idiocracy.After leaving SNL in 2007, Rudolph appeared in the films Grown Ups, Bridesmaids, Inherent Vice, Sisters, CHiPs, Life of the Party and Wine Country. Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American comedian, actress, and singer.

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