Kristen Wiig says she didn’t leave “Saturday Night Live” after seven seasons just to become a movie star.
In the upcoming August issue of Marie Claire, Wiig says, “I know a lot of people probably assume, ‘Oh, she’s leaving because she is going to be doing movies now and things like that,’ which I will be. But I just always knew it was going to be seven and that was it. I think maybe if I were 22, I could see myself staying a little bit, but it just felt like the right time.”
But she added that it was an emotional departure for her. “I just wanted to get through it without breaking down in every sketch,” she says of her final show. “Because nothing says comedy like breaking down.”
Wiig also seemingly references a romance with Fabrizio Moretti, drummer for The Strokes, when she says, “”I am shyer than most people think. I will say that I’m happier than I’ve ever been, and I feel very lucky… Where I am now. Who he is. Those are the two big ones.”
The interview hits newsstands July 17.