Kristen Wiig didn’t glide into her most iconic Saturday Night Live characters fully formed and brimming with confidence. In fact, according to her, some of her funniest lines that now feel inseparable from her legacy were born out of frustration and a very real fear that she’d simply run out of ideas. However, an apparent "breakdown" helped Wiig create one of her funniest sketches.
While appearing on the Las Culturistas podcast with hosts Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, Wiig opened up about a creatively rocky period during her early years on Saturday Night Live. Three seasons in, she says she hit a wall and already used the characters she’d leaned on to get cast, and the pressure to keep reinventing herself on a weekly deadline became overwhelming. She said:
