“I turn down so many things, because so often movie stuff that I get sent is demeaning in some way”
Aidy Bryant wants me to choose the crystal that speaks to me. “Aren’t you attracted to this?” the 30-year-old SNL actress whispers in hushed reverence, pressing her face up against a $4,170 purple orb in a glass display case at Chelsea’s Rock Star Crystals. “I’m very attracted to this.”
On Saturday Night Live, Bryant’s signature characters — Girlfriends Talk Show host Morgan, Tinkerbell’s brash sister Tonkerbell, MC alter-ego “Li’l Baby Aidy” from the SNL girl-group music videos — are women who bristle with confidence and ferocious sexual energy regardless of how the world sees them. “Those are the things that I love and always find really funny: confident, stupid people,” she confesses, with a laugh that makes her pink cheeks glow.
The last year’s Trump-centric emphasis has meant a bit less of Bryant on the show; political stuff is “not really why I started doing comedy,” she says. Of Trump’s infamous stint as host, she shakes her head in dismay. “I don’t think anyone thought it was real,” she remembers. “In a weird way I kind of thought it would be the nail in his coffin. I was like, Oh, this is a buffoon — for him to do this, it’s not presidential and it’s self-involved. I thought it would be the end.
Like her characters, Bryant comes across as supremely confident in her own skin. But growing up in the desert heat of Phoenix, Arizona, where tank tops and swimsuits were year-round attire, Bryant spent her teenage years on the well-trodden path of dieting and self-deprivation. “I was spending so much energy on something that really, no matter what I did, wasn’t changing. And I truly got to a breaking point.
Bryant, who wears a size 18, has her share of fans in the fashion world — Eloquii and Tanya Taylor have made her custom dresses. Mostly, though, she makes her own clothes, with the help of Remy Pearce, a stylist who’s worked on SNL and 30 Rock. In the past, Bryant has hinted at the possibility of selling her own line, and she confides over lunch that the plans are now in motion.
Style, self-presentation, and aesthetic self-expression have always been important to Bryant. Her mom runs a popular Phoenix clothing boutique called Frances, and decorated the family home in a colorful mishmash of knickknacks and oddities and hand-painted art.
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