Kate McKinnon (L) and Cecily Strong as French actresses Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve. | Photo: YouTube/SNL
In the latest episode of weekly US comedy show, Saturday Night Live, queen of impersonations and queer icon, Kate McKinnon, unveiled her impersonation of French actress Brigitte Bardot.
McKinnon appeared alongside co-star Cecily Strong who played another French actress, Catherine Deneuve, on the Weekend Update segment.
The actresses have been in the news again recently with their unpopular take on the #MeToo movement. They were both popular bombshells in the 60s and 70s.
The movement started after more than one hundred allegations of sexual harassment against powerful Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein.
Those allegations have inspired women, and some men, to share their stories of sexual abuse suffered at the hands of men in more powerful positions than them.
But Deneuve and Bardot have seen the issue differently to most people.
Deneuve was one of many French actresses who signed an open letter saying the #MeToo movement was a witch hunt against men. She quickly apologized to the sexual assault victims after a global backlash to the letter.
Bardot went one step further and told a French magazine that many women lied about harassment and that it was ‘charming’ when men complimented her ‘backside’.
‘The vast majority are being hypocritical and ridiculous,’ she said.
‘Lots of actresses try to play the tease with producers to get a role. And then, so we will talk about them, they say they were harassed.’
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McKinnon’s Bardot and Strong’s Deneuve appeared on Weekend Update to defend their views on #MeToo.
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True to real life, Deneuve was more conciliatory even telling co-anchor Colin Jost, ‘We will not discourage you from being a man’.
But Bardot was not going to back down and spouted some zingers like, ‘Free Harvey Weinstein! This is a real man.’
‘A man is a man, and woman is a woman,’ Bardot said.
‘If they are not, they are homos.’
As Bardot goes off on a controversial rant, Deneuve is seen trying to calm her down and stop her, to no avail.
‘Why does woman have breasts? It is for man to grab and pull. This is nature. A drawer have a knob. A woman have 2 knobs,’ Bardot said.
‘You know I love the homos. My only friends are you and birds and homos.’
Deneuve gets the final word though.
‘Brigitte is very old,’ she said.
‘And very wrong.’
