“I felt a little naked doing it, but in a good way.”
“Well, I can read the room,” she said in the sketch.
“It’s me, right?
Kate McKinnon takes her final bow on ‘Saturday Night Live.'.Will Heath/NBC
Well, sure, why not?
I always kind of felt like an alien on this planet anyway.”
Now, McKinnon has opened up about how the bizarre and touching send-off came to be.
“And I thought that was beautiful.”
It was exactly what I would say if I had written it.
I felt a little naked doing it, but in a good way."
Thanks for letting me stay a while."
She originally wanted to play her sloppy barfly character, Sheila Sovage.
As Sheila, she would have made out with every single one of her fellow cast members.
Watch McKinnon’s final “Close Encounter” sketch above.
