When it comes to getting ready, Kate McKinnon likes to keep it simple, especially on her off-duty days.
Actress and Saturday night live alum tells PEOPLE exclusively that, if it were up to her, she would spend exactly “zero minutes” on her hair.
“If I’m on camera somewhere, I have a team of very talented stylists, hair and makeup artists that I’ve worked with for 10 years, who are my dear, dear friends who do wonderful work that I love and I’m grateful for,” she says. “If I’m left to my own devices, wow.”
She adds, “I’m so practical that it’s: Clean your mouth because it’s a health problem and wash your face because it’s an organ you have to keep clean, and I’m like, eh.”
McKinnon, 40, says she has “other things to do” besides spending time on her own glamorous style, as she is “a person in the woods” these days, since leaving her post at SNL and transition to the next stage of life.
She recently moved out of the city (though she still spends a lot of time in Manhattan, she says) and turned her attention to other things — like creating the Susan Toothbrush character for Philips Sonicare’s latest ad campaign.
Kate McKinnon for Philips Sonicare.
Philips Sonicare
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“Susan Toothbrush is a mythical woman who materializes through walls and helps people make better decisions about their oral health,” McKinnon says of the character she created for the brand, who appears in several ads. Susan appears in people’s bathrooms and encourages them to switch from manual toothbrushes to electric ones to support better oral hygiene.
“When Sonicare approached me about this collaboration, I was honored and just wanted to take the opportunity to create a memorable character, and that’s what I try to do no matter what medium I’m working in,” she continues. “They were extremely collaborative and together we came up with Susan Toothbrush, who has her own mythology, and I never got to play a character with her own mythology in an ad campaign.”
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The Barbie the actress tells PEOPLE that she struggled with orthodontics for many years growing up — she didn’t lose her first tooth until she was 8, then she got braces as a teenager, and at one point she even had a gap in her teeth that she says was somewhat traumatic.
“I went to prom with these giant clear braces,” she says. “It was so embarrassing.”
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Kate McKinnon for Philips Sonicare.
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McKinnon jokes that in Susan Toothbrush’s quick clips, the actual “physics” of how she “materializes” isn’t really explained, but she wants people to “grow a fandom” to help build her story and mythology so the character can continue to live on beyond the small screen.
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