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Former Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon revealed that she officially ditched New York City after leaving the show to live a more rural life away from others.<\/p>\n
The Emmy-winning actress spoke exclusively with People<\/a> at the Sundance Film Festival at the Monday, January 26 premiere of her new movie In the Blink of an Eye, where she confirmed that she left the city for a life at an undisclosed location in the wilderness.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m living in the woods,\u201d she said joyfully. \u201cI moved to the woods \u2014 and I\u2019m doing that pretty hard.\u201d<\/p>\n She added that she is indeed serious and couldn\u2019t be happier with her decision, saying she \u201cloves it.\u201d She even jokingly invited the interviewer over and promised, \u201cI\u2019ll make you a pie.\u201d<\/p>\n Just because she decided to leave the lights and sounds of Manhattan behind for a quieter life in the woods doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s retiring. Since leaving her run on SNL<\/a>, which went from 2012 to 2022, McKinnon has starred in several movies like Barbie, The Roses and Andrew Stanton\u2019s new science fiction epic. Indeed, she previously spoke about her decision to move to a rural area in the October 28 episode of Amy Poehler\u2019s Good Hang podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the reason I\u2019ve done it is that I believe very much that we are doomed,\u201d she explained. \u201cMy goal is surviving the apocalypse for four days, that\u2019s it. If I can make it to four, oh mama! I will have achieved something.\u201d<\/p>\n She added, \u201dI know I wouldn\u2019t make it past two hours, but I\u2019d like to think I could go 48 and I\u2019d be crying the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA Former Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon revealed that she officially ditched New York City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[191,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-133467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-celebrity-news","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MEGA1281941_045-scaled.jpg\")
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