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Julia Sweeeney turned to some background that faced her character Saturday night Live (SNL), Pat.
65-year-old actor was reflected on the playing of caving since 1990. until 1994. year during the episode Wednesday Viewleading to SNL 50: Anniversary Special. Pat was an Androgyn’s invented character, created by Sweeten, who had black curly hair, thick glasses and wore a blue shirt in west style. 1994 Sweeeney was also in a feature film, It’s Pat.
For time ViewSweeeney addressed some backgrounds she received from trans And a non-binary community when she played Pat, because a half of the character never discovered.
“There were criticism of that, but Pat is not trans or non-binary,” the actor explained. “Pat is a man or woman, just don’t know what Pat is. It’s a joke.”
However, Sweeeney said she realized “criticism and took him in the heart a lot.” She clarified that when she and her colleagues wrote all sketches, “they didn’t mock.
“We really made fun of other people [in the sketches] I can’t handle the fact that I can’t say, “she explained, relating to a pat and a man or a woman.” All came from it. But, of course, when you defend the joke, as we know, you have already lost them. ”
Asked how felt about PAT, despite the controversy surrounding the character, Sweeeney said he felt “very positively about it.”
“There is a documentary that was made, and will come out next year. And there are a lot of transdicial writers in LA who were inspired by Pat, who loved Pat,” she said. “I was interviewed for three years for this documentary, and that was like my therapy for me. It’s like: ‘Yes, Pat! It was a good idea!” ”
Sweeney was previously reflected on how the PAT vague spole was the basis of a joke in SNL. During the interview with People In July she admitted that her friends had even criticized her character, including a writer TransparentJoey Soloway, identified as transgender.
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“They were especially some people – who is actually a friend and who is now Joey Soloway – saying that Pat was derogatory to people and that it is really disturbing as a person of an indefinite gender or himself,” she explained.
She continued to admit how the background of her friend “just broke [her] the heart. ”
“I felt that I carefully wrote all the jokes to be an uneasiness of people with Pat, not the pat not being uncomfortable with Pat I,” she added. “For me, it was empowering non-convenience things – and that it was understood that it was so upset.”
She also shared as she met with 10 transgender writers of comedy to discuss the suffering and ways to invent character. According to Sweeeney, the writers “loved Pat”, which was a really “transformative” thing for the comedian to see.
“Now I feel like, Oh, no. It was good and it was important, and now all those trans people I have met, these groups of 10, all told me how important it was to do so,” concluded is. “So now I feel, okay, that was okay. ”
16. February, NBCLongest late-night sketch Sketch, SNLwill celebrate their 50. anniversary, with three-hour special, beginning at 20:00 EST.
The celebrities in special involve a mixture of original cast castors, such as Laraine Newman, Amy Poehler, Eddie Murphy, Molly Shannon, Adam Sandler, Maya Rudolph, Pete Davison, Tracy Morgan and Tina Fey.
They will also include celebrities who have previously secured the stage as a guest host, including Adam Driver, Ayo Edebiri, Bad Bunny, Dave Chappelle, John Kardashian, Martin Short, Miley Cyrus and Paul McCartney,