Kate McKinnon is paying tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after she died on Friday at 87-years-old.
McKinnon impersonated RBG on “SNL” since 2015, something she said was “profound joy.”
“For so many of us, Justice Ginsburg was a real-life superhero: a beacon of hope, a warrior for justice, a robed crusader who saved the day time and again. Playing her on ‘SNL’ was a profound joy because I could always feel the overwhelming love and gratitude that the audience had for her,” McKinnon said in a statement.
Adding, “It was one of the great honours to meet Justice Ginsburg, to shake her hand and to thank her for her lifetime of service to this country.”
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McKinnon’s take on Ginsburg included “Gins-Burns” and breaking into dance.
Ginsburg called McKinnon’s impersonations “marvellously funny” and that she would love to deliver a “Gins-Burn” to her colleagues.
Felicity Jones, who played Ginsburg in the biopic “On the Basis of Sex”, called her a “beacon of light” in a separate statement.
