I didn’t see the big picture - like anyone wouldn’t at 30 but would at 60. “I had my dramas, but I was myopic about myself. “It was such a great opportunity,” she explains. Novem12:35 pm 'It's Pat' Touchstone/Kobal/Shutterstock Twenty-five years after the popular character’s final appearance on Saturday Night Live and the box office bomb. Sweeney says she looks back on her four-year run on “SNL” fondly - with the benefit of a little hindsight. “I thought, ‘Oh I really f**ked up! I really dropped the ball … then it really became important for me to come back and then it wasn’t until the last few years that I realized how likely it was that I would not be able to get my career back,” she says. The question remains unanswered when the mystery known as Pat (Julia Sweeney) hits the big screen in It's Pat (1994). ![]() RELATED: ‘SNL’ Writer Robert Smigel Says Chris Farley’s Classic Chippendales Sketch Is ‘Misunderstood’ Saturday Night Live alum laughs through the pain in her new movie, God Said, Ha February/March 1999. Sweeney says she was content with her decision - until her daughter went to high school and became more independent. 0:00 / 8:23 Julia Sweeney - Pat From SNL Personal Appearance at SMZeeees With WKTI Reitman & Mueller ecsdigital2112 155 subscribers Subscribe 73K views 11 years ago (March 27, 1992) I used. But she does admit that if she could do it over, there’s one thing she would change: She “wouldn’t Pat unattractive.”īut, the “God Said Ha!” star is back playing Aidy Bryant’s mother in the Hulu series “Shrill” after a decade-long break from showbiz while raising her daughter with husband Michael Blum. Sweeney says she “actually loved Pat,” despite the character’s boom-and-bust turn in the spotlight. Folks will remember Sweeney from her Saturday Night Live days, where she was best known for her beloved androgynous character, Pat, later brought to the. RELATED: Norm Macdonald Recalls The HUGE ‘SNL’ Secret The Late Chris Farley Revealed To Him But also, Pat was conventionally unattractive and intentionally gross - so I definitely got laughs on that.” “In my mind, I was actually trying to explore how uncomfortable not having a gender was for the people around that person,” she tells Page Six. Thirty years on, and in the current climate, the 61-year-old says that while she’s criticized for the character, she never intended for ‘Pat’ to be hurtful or offensive. ![]() “Pat”, an androgynous person whose not-so-obvious gender made people around her uncomfortable, was one of the show’s most popular recurring skits in the early 1990s. From her start with the improvisational comedy troupe The Groundlings, Sweeney was discovered in 1989 by Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and. Julia Sweeney says she still gets “a lot of s**t” for her “Pat” character on “Saturday Night Live”.
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