When your show has had 159 cast members over nearly fifty years, you can’t expect them all to be happy. No one knows that better than producer Lorne Michaels. “Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors,” he says. “They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.”
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Lorne wasn’t having it. “I let her make It’s Pat,” he says. “And ever since, it’s been on my record. They say “Saturday Night Live movies like It’s Pat.” And she’s unpleasant about the show!”
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“The evidence pretty much shows that Lorne’s approach to the cast was to try to infantilize them,” says Shearer. “He wanted them to be like children; he’d be the daddy. That was his preferred way of relating to people. And I didn’t particularly want to relate that way.”
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