Kate McKinnon just landed another movie role, and it sounds appropriately weird and excellent: she will play Grunhilda, a witch who works in a school cafeteria. Nobody believes in magic anymore, but she gets her kicks scaring children until she forms an unlikely friendship with a student.
This follows her role in the lovely Ghostbusters sequel, and also Office Christmas Party, in theaters now. This new film is called The Lunch Witch, which is a little clunky and we wouldn’t be surprised if it gets retooled by the time the movie comes out. The director is Clay Kaytis, who directed the Angry Birds movie. That is not an encouraging sign but maybe maybe maybe Kate will be up to the task of making this movie good. Oh let’s hope so.
The story’s based on a novel by Deb Lucke, a former advertising industry exec. There’s already a sequel to the book — Knee Deep in Niceness — and a third is in the works, so if Kate can pull this off we may see her as a witch for many years to come.
Of course, the question on many of her fans’ minds: will she get to play it queer in this movie? Studio interference is rumored to have nixed the lesbian content in Ghostbusters, but maybe this movie will be different. Then again, a scary witch is maybe not the representation we want?
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Kangol
She’s so talented, so I hope she can find some quality comic movie roles in the future.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Time to sink or swim then. No one else to blame if it goes wrong. However, I think she can do it.
ErikO
She’s a major reason why SNL sucks now, and she sucked in the remake of ghostbusters.
Drew Espinosa
Lovely Ghostbusters sequel? Bwahahaha!
ProfessorMoriarty
I would go lesbian for Kate. LOVE. HER.
ErikOisJustaTroll
@ErikO: is just a troll spreading his message of hate to the world. He doesn’t really think Kate McKinnon sucks. Who would? She’s an incredibly talented comedian and actress who just won an Emmy to prove it. You silly troll you!
John
None of the cast of SNL is as talented as those first years..We have just lowered the bar of comedy so it makes the casts of the last 10-15 years appear to be more talented. We have even fiund a way to “dumb down” sketch comedy.