While Saturday Night Live has been around for almost half a century, and it's fun to have a constantly rotating cast, it's never easy to say goodbye to fan favorites. The last few years have been especially rough because multiple cast members left after Season 47, including Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Alex Moffat, Aidy Bryant, and more. It's been a year now since these departures, so Ego Nwodim opened up about the “grand exodus” that happened, and what it was like losing so many of her castmates around the same time.
While speaking with THR about her time on SNL, Ego Nwodim, who joined the long-running NBC variety series in 2018, got candid about what it was like losing a handful of her castmates last year. She explained that it was "scary" having so many mainstays leave at once, saying:
