“SNL”’s Ashley Padilla opens up about how she became Diane Keaton’s assistant and what the acting legend taught her
Saturday Night Live Featured participant Ashley Padilla has defined how she got here to work as an assistant to late acting legend Diane Keaton.
In her early 20s, Padilla was engaged on her comedy chops, and her expertise as a restaurant server, in Los Angeles, when she landed a one-night stint handing out social gathering favors at the house of none apart from Keaton. Then Keaton’s assistant requested her if she needed to assist clear up the social gathering the following day.
“For a couple hundred bucks more?” Padilla just lately informed Vulture. “I was like, ‘You’re joking. Yes.'”
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Padilla stayed busy operating errands for the Something’s Gotta Give actress, and she was wanting to do extra.
“I think I dropped off Christmas gifts at her friends’ houses,” Padilla recalled. “I would always be like, ‘I’ll do anything you guys need.'”
Ashley Padilla on ‘Saturday Night Live’
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Ultimately, Padilla became Keaton’s assistant and, the outlet notes, her good friend and mentee.
The SNL star says she “learned a lot from her, being close to someone in the business who’s so funny and who has a vision. She taught me that you’ve got to know yourself. She knew what she likes.”
The girls have been so shut that Keaton noticed Padilla’s improvisation and sketch work with the Groundlings, which she was a member of earlier than becoming a member of SNL as a featured participant in 2024.
The Family Stone star additionally selected Padilla to edit and design her e-book, Fashion Firstwhich got here out the similar yr.
“I could do it because she believed I could,” Padilla, who hadn’t completed such a undertaking earlier than, stated. “Diane wanted me to succeed.”
When Padilla was ultimately employed at SNLshe did not have to inform her boss what was happening.
“She didn’t even say ‘hello’ when she answered,” Padilla recalled. “She just said, ‘You’re moving to New York.’ She was a very intuitive individual.”
Following Keaton’s death in October, Padilla posted several tributes to the Oscar-winning actress on Instagram.
“I will never forget you. I will always love you,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories. “And I will miss you all of the time. Thank you for everything, Diane. You changed my life.”
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