Kristen Wiig
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh my God.
No, I don't think I could.
I don't think I could handle it week in and week out.
Once every 20 years is more my speed for that gig.
I didn't want to audition, but then I didn't audition.
I had an idea in mind that I never went and followed through with.
Well, I don't want to repeat it because now it really sounds stupid in my mind, but
My audition was going to be basically, I was going to be a superhero that I created.
I don't remember what it was called, but it was like a combination of the Hulk and maybe it was just the Hulk.
I was going to come in as the Hulk and just jump around and do like this weird slow motion kind of performance art dance where I would crush things with my foot and then do like a mimed, the earth is cracking dance.
I was not going to get in, and I knew that.
But I had practiced it in the mirror in my living room a few times, but I never pulled the trigger.
Well, that's the constant battle is the fear of failure.
Sometimes you're up for the battle and sometimes you're just like, pass.
Do you remember that?
The sketch that didn't make it on SNL when I was there with you.