“Saturday Night Live” alum Leslie Jones recently told “The Sam Sanders Show” that she found it “frustrating” that the writers at “SNL” would often typecast her as angry and aggressive.
“It was kind of frustrating that they would always make me the girl that was angry and beating up people or in love with a white boy,” Jones said. “They just always would make me angry or I’m fighting somebody.”
Host Sam Sanders then asked Jones if she was ok with that type of portrayal. Jones explained that she didn’t fight back because “she wanted to be on the show,” and in the moment, “didn’t think that that was happening until it kept happening.”
“Every time I would get a sketch, I was like, ‘OK, who am I beating up this week?’” she added. “I just started getting frustrated with [the writers]. I was like, ‘Stop writing me like that.’”
Despite her objections, Jones said the typecasting continued.
