Kate McKinnon covers Vanity Fair, refuses to talk about pretty much everything
This is a great cover on many levels. One, it’s a vibrant shade of green and I enjoy that. There should be more green covers. Two, the cover subject is the magnificent Kate McKinnon, breakout star of Saturday Night Live and one of the funniest women working today. That being said, I’ve never read a good interview with her. She’s a very private person, and she’s at a point in her famous life where she’s learned how to expertly deflect personal questions and political questions and more. Which means that this VF cover profile is a lot of mood and description and quotes from other people about Kate’s brilliance, but very little actual information about her life or process or politics. These are literally the two most interesting quotes:
She gets very emotional talking about Hillary and the election: “I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that’s just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work. In doing that for Hillary Clinton, who I admire so much, I started to feel very close to her, just trying to imagine her inner life.”
Her touchstone: A touchstone for Kate is Molly Shannon’s Mary Katherine Gallagher, the Catholic schoolgirl who’s rough on décor and who sniffs her armpit-dipped fingers when she’s nervous: “Mary Katherine is crashing into tables and doing a little dance, and yet she’s so real at the same time. You have to love her so much because she’s a person who’s trying to connect, but is thwarted by everything about who she is. I can relate to that.”
[From Vanity Fair]
I like what she says about Hillary and apparently they’re still friends – after the election, they’ve been seen out in New York, having lunch or dinner or drinks. I wish Hillary had conducted this interview because then we would have gotten somewhere.
Vanity Fair talks about how Kate is in the public sphere as an “out” gay woman, but it’s clear that Kate did not want to talk about her girlfriend (who was her Emmy date) or anything about that. Which is too bad, because that would have livened up their somewhat overwrought and overwritten piece.
Also: did you know Kate is only 33?? That’s breaking news! I honestly thought she was 40.
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