“It gave me a lot of angst.”
“I never really paid much attention to the audience,” she said.
“I thought, well, anybody thats watching this must be really stupid.
Jane Curtin on ‘Weekend Update’ on ‘Saturday Night Live’.Owen Franken/Corbis via Getty
It gave me a lot of angst.
“Youd pass by people and they would shake,” she explained.
And it was very, very exciting.”
Jane Curtin on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2015.Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty
The classic anxiety dream."
Once she was hired ontoSNL, Curtin wasn’t sure how to make her voice heard.
“I was quiet and nobody paid any attention to me,” she explained.
“I didnt know how to pitch.
I had never had to do that in my life.”
She remained confident, however, that she’d have some utility once the show began.
“Theyre paying me.
So it would be foolish of them not to use me,” she recalled thinking.
The film is now playing in select theaters and will expand to more screens on Oct. 11.
