I’m a big Rachel Dratch fan, I thought her characters on SNL were interesting, quirky, and a little different like the characters that Gilda Radner did a couple of decades ago. SNL has been an amazing springboard for her male colleagues propelling several if not many onto incredibly high profile careers (Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, Will Ferrell…) but Dratch’s post SNL career has been well, kind of disappointing to her and to us since we haven’t seen her enough.
Missy Schwartz at EW talks to Dratch about her career:
”I did Second City and SNL and everything was chugging along,” says Dratch, 43, referring to the famed Chicago improv group. ”And then the chug got a little slower. When I was on SNL, I envisioned things going differently.”
Yeah I bet. She did seven years on SNL — the longest of any woman– and she hit the women’s comedy wall in Hollywood. Lost her gig on 30 Rock. Movie she wrote and co-starred in went straight to DVD (Spring Breakdown out last week.) Missing from Vanity Fair’s women’s comedy issue.
She talks about how playing the bizarro and at times kind of “ugly” looking characters and her lack of vanity in her roles on SNL may have affected how people thought about her with people commenting “Oh, you’re so much prettier in real life.” Ouch.
But Rachel is back in Nia Vardalos’ My Life in Ruins and has appeared in a musical Minsky’s in LA which will hopefully be on Broadway this fall.
Here’s to hoping we see more of Dratch. She’s worth it.
The Return of Rachel Dratch (EW)
Women just can’t catch a freakin break.