“I gave no more f—s,” she said.
Leaving a job can be disorienting under the best of circumstances.
That was the case forMaya Rudolphwhen she leftSaturday Night Livein 2007.
Maya Rudolph.Will Heath/NBC via Getty
However, she acknowledged that the show provided the foundation for everything that came next.
She called her time on the long-running show the most transformative period of her career.
Then I was going to say post-SNL.
Maya Rudolph.Everett Collection
Then I was going to sayBridesmaids," she explained.
It seems like you go out of your way to be like, ‘Hey, I see you.
I got you,'" she said.
“I think it’s because we’re trained to be underdogs,” Rudolph responded.
“The beautiful movie star comes in and sprinkles us and says, ‘Hey!’
Then, they leave.
It’s the nature of the show, the not-ready-for-primetime players.
You have this vibe of, ‘I’m nothing.
I’ll make you look good.'”
While Rudolph may have struggled to know what came next, it’s clear that she figured it out.
