Kate McKinnon wants everyone to know that using an ax to break down a door is a lot harder than how it appears in the movies.
When the Saturday Night Live alum stopped by Late Night With Seth Meyers, she revealed that she’s more of a woods person than a city person after moving out a while ago. However, she admitted she still makes “city mistakes,”
“I locked myself out of the house in the woods,” McKinnon told Meyers. “Can’t call anybody, except for the chipmunk. If he doesn’t have your keys, you’re screwed.”
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McKinnon revealed she was cooking dinner at the time, and had a sauce on an open flame when she went outside to get a sprig of thyme from her own garden, like any woods person would.
“The door closes, and the door, for some reason, locked behind me,” McKinnon said. “I got a sauce on, I got the cat locked in the house, spare key locked in the house from when I used it and never put it back, obviously. No neighbor. My phone was in the house.”
The only logical solution? Break into her own house via the glass front door, of course.
“I had to grab my ax, break down my own door, and it ain’t like in the movies,” McKinnon said. “In the movies, the wet bandits, they just go like that and the glass breaks and then you reach in.”
But it wasn’t that easy in real life for the SNL alum.
“It was mostly a glass door, and I had an ax, and it was like there was a blanket in this thing,” McKinnon said. “It was like this glass is designed not to break or something like that.”
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McKinnon laughed at how “anticlimactic” the entire thing turned out to be when she finally got back inside.
“Eventually I broke it down enough to sort of just push the sheet of glass out,” she said. “Went inside, ate dinner. I had a sauce on, and then eventually cleaned up the unholy mess I made.”
You never see that part in the movies.
Watch McKinnon tell the story in the video below:
