Future Women's History Month: Kate McKinnon's Vivid Versatility
Fuse is celebrating Women's History Month by looking at a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Women's History before our eyes. Today we're sharing our appreciation for Kate McKinnon, one of the jewels of Saturday Night Live and, more each year, big-screen comedy.
McKinnon, 33, was introduced to her biggest audience yet with 2016's Ghostbusters, where she stole the show as the bewitchingly quirky nuclear engineering scientist Dr. Jillian Holtzmann. Bridesmaids director Paul Feig's film was heralded as a female-led reboot of the classic pair of '80s flicks—and met with a torrent of despicably familiar misogyny. The hater zenith came in the form of racist abuse against Leslie Jones, McKinnon's fellow 'Buster and SNL-er. McKinnon condemned the attacks on Jones, but didn't lose sight of the film's impervious significance, telling Rolling Stone:
"It was fucked, just fucked. But I was more heartened by the progress that had been demonstrated by the green-lighting of the movie in the first place than by people's reaction to it. I don't think the reaction outshone the fact that it was produced. I think it was a true milestone. When has a true milestone sailed by without people's hateful attention?"
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