Kate McKinnon’s walk in her Verizon ads has viewers at a loss for words: Does the ‘Saturday Night Live’ famous person always walk like that? Read the comments.
Now that its former “Can you hear me now?” man is shilling for rival wi-fi network T-Mobile, Verizon has enlisted a two-time Emmy winner to appeal to viewers.
But it seems those that have seen Kate McKinnon’s Verizon television commercials have only one question on their thoughts: Why does she walk the best way she does in the ones commercials, and, as one forum user added, “Is that her commonplace gait?”
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On Reddit, one viewer had an empathetic concept. “Honestly, she walks round like she’s never worn heels, which is most likely,” that person wrote. “Why wouldn’t they simply put her in apartments or any other sensible shoe possibility that lets her stroll conveniently?”
Other folks, however, weren’t so kind…
Viewers compared her walk to that of a velociraptor, Frankenstein’s monster… or perhaps a pregnant yak.
In the same Reddit thread — and in this one — viewers subjected Kate to unflattering comparisons. Here’s a sampling:
“She walks like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park in those heels. I’ve never seen a woman less swish in heels than her.”
“She walks like she took a big ol’ sell off but there wasn’t any bathroom paper in the bathroom. So she’s in truth on her solution to another rest room to find toilet paper, but trying to be discreet about it and shoot the economic first.”
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“She walks just like the alien lizard inside of her is failing to stroll like a human. Every time I watch her I recall to mind Ed from Men in Black.”
“Why the hell does Kate McKinnon walk like Frankenstein’s monster?”
“She obviously by no means learned to walk in heels, and so seems like a pregnant yak when she tries.”
Viewers don’t know what’s up together with her hand in her pocket, both.
OK, maybe viewers have two questions about Kate’s Verizon ads. Another Reddit thread is titled, “What is the reason Kate McKinnon awkwardly assists in keeping her hand in her pocket via nearly all of this Verizon commercial?”
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One commenter identified that Kate additionally keeps one hand in her pocket — Alanis Morissette-style — in her Tostitos commercial with Dan Levy.
“Maybe she’s just comfortable together with her hand in her pocket?” every other commented added. “Maybe she’s fondling the fat stack of cash she made to be in their advert. Who cares? LOL, let her are living.”
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Kate’s abilities are higher used elsewhere, especially ‘Saturday Night Live.’
If you’re cringing over Kate’s Verizon advertisements as much as these naysayers are, you must see the 37-year-old’s different work. She’s been nominated for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy for her work on Saturday Night Live every year since 2014, as an example, and gained in 2016 and 2017. And she scored Critics’ Choice Movie Award nominations for her performances within the movies Ghostbusters and Bombshell, the latter of which additionally scored her a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Plus, Kate will play infamous big-cat proprietor Carole Baskin — of Tiger King status — in the upcoming Peacock sequence Joe Exotic. And the actual Carole even gave her seal of approval to the actress’ transformation for the section. Way to stroll the stroll, Kate!
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