Seems, Ashley Padilla’s humorous unhealthy haircut sketch on Saturday Evening Dwell was based mostly on a real story.
Padilla, who joined the forged of the present in 2024, defined on Thursday’s episode of Late Evening With Seth Meyers, {that a} bit displaying her pretending to love her ridiculous new haircut was one thing she wrote from expertise.
Solely, in actual life, the change a number of years in the past was arguably extra dramatic, and it hadn’t been made by a stylish beautician, however by Padilla herself.
“I buzzed my head accidentally,” Padilla confessed, as she held up a photograph of herself smiling and bald. “That is me pretending I prefer it. I am going, ‘I prefer it! Let’s take a selfie.’ Why?! Nobody desires that image.”
Meyers, who was himself an SNL forged member from 2001 to 2014, needed extra particulars as to how this ever occurred.
Nicely, Padilla recounted, she’d needed an excellent cropped not shaved look, like she has now. She was impressed by how cool Caught Stealing actress Zoë Kravitz was with an analogous type. She needed one thing “tight to my head.”
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“And I used to be like, ‘Nicely, absolutely you shave it,’” Padilla recalled. “And so I purchased a buzzer on Amazon. And I did not know — I might by no means owned one in my life — I did not know that there are ranges. However I came upon.”
Meyers joked that everybody else knew.
“You could possibly have instructed me,” Padilla stated. “I did not realize it.”
At that time, what else may she do however personal it?
“I walked round, and I used to be like, ‘That is on goal!’” Padilla stated. “‘I prefer it! With some earrings.’ I regarded insane.”
Padilla additionally provided a peek into her private life in October, when she shared a tribute to late actress Diane Keaton, whom she had labored for as an assistant simply earlier than becoming a member of the enduring Lorne Michaels collection. Keaton died Oct. 11 at 79.
Saturday Evening Dwell airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC and Peacock.
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