Kristen Wiig Reveals the One Piece of Advice from “SNL” Costar Will Forte That She's 'Carried' with Her 

Kristen Wiig is opening up astir immoderate of nan champion proposal she received connected Saturday Night Live.

On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Wiig, 52, appeared connected erstwhile costar Amy Poehler's podcast, Good Hang, and chatted astir her acquisition connected nan long-running assortment sketch series. Wiig opened up astir not only performing connected nan show, on pinch her process for penning sketches.

After Poehler, 54, asked really she gained nan assurance to transportation sketch ideas successful nan show's writer's room. Wiig explained that her erstwhile costar, Will Forte, gave her a portion of proposal that helped her find assurance successful her ain ideas.

“I deliberation I benignant of wanted to cognize wherever I was successful nan world arsenic acold arsenic my constituent of view,” Wiig said. "The much I would put up that I thought was funny, nan much I could benignant of hone what benignant of useful and what doesn't."

"I do retrieve Forte telling maine erstwhile successful his agency [after] maine saying thing like, 'I don't cognize if Lorne would for illustration this' and he was like, 'Don't do that,'" Wiig recalled. "He's like, 'Never constitute for if you deliberation personification other is going to deliberation this is funny... Write if you deliberation it's funny.' And I ever carried that pinch me."

Wiig would later spell connected to cowrite nan successful drama films Bridesmaids and Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar. She starred successful some arsenic good arsenic scoring roles successful Big Mouth, Palm Royale, Ghostbusters and galore more.

As for landing nan SNL role, Wiig couldn’t instantly callback for Poehler really she received nan offer, but she yet remembered that initially she “didn't perceive anything.”

“The play started and that's erstwhile I was like, 'I didn't get it,'" Wiig said. "But past they called maine and they were like, we person a spot for you. Can you travel successful 2 weeks?"

Poehler told her erstwhile costar that she arrived astatine nan show “ready and assured to effort — what is nan occupation — to effort your dumb ideas."

The Parks and Recreation star besides informed her impermanent that everything Wiig utilized successful her August 2005 audition became a recurring characteristic connected nan bid — including nan infamous Target Lady.

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While Target Lady was a instrumentality favorite, Poehler revealed which of Wiig’s characters was 1 of her individual favorites: Sue, a female who gets a small too excited during astonishment parties.

"I emotion her. I emotion her for a cardinal reasons," Poehler shared. "The measurement you play her is truthful funny. I emotion her wig, ever successful a turtleneck." 

Wiig agreed that Sue was a favorite. "I for illustration being successful a sketch wherever there's a batch of group and location are moments wherever everyone is looking around, like, 'What is going on?," she said.

"I emotion that moment. I emotion a trim to Kenan [Thompson]," Wiig continued. "It's my favourite thing...Most of my sketches, if you spell backmost and look, I'm like, 'You gotta trim to group being weirded retired by me, to punctual nan assemblage that I'm weird.' " 

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Currently, Wiig is successful her villain era. She's starring arsenic Vera, nan kooky, cat-loving nemesis successful Gabby's Dollhouse: The Film, in theaters now. Based connected nan Netflix children's series, Wiig told PEOPLE exclusively successful September that choosing her first domiciled successful a kid's show was an "easy yes," successful portion because she wanted to make a show that her 5-year-old twins Shiloh and Luna, whom she shares pinch hubby Avi Rothman, could watch.

"They’re why I did it. Of course, I really loved moving pinch [director] Ryan Crego. I deliberation he's truthful talented, but it felt really bully to make a imaginative determination for personification different than myself," Wiig told PEOPLE. "And past I knew that they could watch it, moreover though they're still successful that property wherever they're trying to fig retired what I do."