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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE’S AIDY BRYANT IS VERY BUSY; WHEN SHE’S NOT BRILLIANTLY portraying characters on SNL, she’s producing and starring in Shrill on Hulu (final season premieres May 7). “There’s a lot of juicy new fun,” Bryant says about the season. Based on the bestselling book by Lindy West, Bryant plays Annie, a plus-size woman on a mission of personal growth that has nothing to do with her size. “I feel really proud that we gave a fat character a lot of dignity.” Like her character, Bryant says she too made an active choice to not lean into shame. “In college I was kind of like, ‘Oh I see these cool young women who are not hating themselves, and I want to be like that.’ Things got quite a bit better for me and it was mostly because I was less hard on myself.” She sees positive changes at SNL, too. “When I first started, it wasn’t as typical to see women play men. It kind of opens up this freedom of just who’s got the vibe and who can do it.” Watch her as Ted Cruz and there’s no doubt about it: she can do it.