30 June 2025<\/time>\n <\/p>\nAbby Elliott has described getting fired from Saturday Night Live was her “worst” fear come true.<\/p>\n
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Abby Elliott was let go from Saturday Night Live<\/p>\n
\nThe Bear star joined the comedy show in 2008, becoming its youngest ever female cast member at the age of 21, and she admitted there was a lot of pressure to write successful sketches, with the “looming threat” of being dropped constantly in her mind.<\/p>\n
\nShe told the Independent: \u201cEvery week was a new week, and your happiness would depend on whether you got something on air or not, and if three weeks went by without a sketch, you\u2019d think, \u2018Uh-oh, am I going to be fired?\u2019<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThere was always that looming threat of getting fired. That was the worst that could happen. And then, I kind of did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAbby had initially asked creator Lorne Michaels if she could leave in 2012 but then changed her mind – only for him to say no.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cI went back to him with my tail between my legs asking to stay, but after that season, Lorne said, \u2018No, I\u2019m going to cut you loose.\u2019 “<\/p>\n
\nBut ultimately, Abby – who was best known on the show for her impressions of the likes of Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore and Meryl Streep – knew the comedy of SNL wasn’t all she wanted to do with her career.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cAs much as I enjoyed being on that show, sketch comedy wasn\u2019t going to be it for me. It\u2019s not why I started and it\u2019s not how I wanted to end. Also, I had learnt the lessons I was going to learn… and so I left and, you know, the water was warm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAfter roles in the likes of How I Met Your Mother, Odd Mom Out, and Indebted, Abby thought sitcoms would be where her career path led, so she was thrilled to receive an audition notice to play Natalie in The Bear.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: “It was so unique. I thought, \u2018Oh my God, this is so cool. This is so different.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
\nLoving the fact Natalie was multi-dimensional, she noted: \u201cI\u2019ve played characters before where you\u2019re just the person who sets up the joke, and then the guy comes in and has the punchline.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nHowever, the 38-year-old actress had to fight her natural instinct to play Natalie like a comedian with a lot of jokes in the highly-improvised dialogue.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: \u201cMy first day on set, it was very clear to me that I had to play her as natural and as real as possible.”<\/p>\n
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