• Ego Nwodim mentioned when she first table-read “Lisa from Temecula,” she was breaking character “like loopy.”
• The SNL star additionally mentioned she was involved she wouldnt be capable of shake the desk laborious sufficient. 
• Nwodim advised The Hollywood Reporter she was grateful somebody was hiding below the desk shaking it for her. 

SNL’s Ego Nwodim advised The Hollywood Reporter that the primary time she carried out ‘Lisa from Temecula’ on the desk learn with Lorne Michaels and different solid members, she was “breaking” character “like loopy.”

Within the unique sketch, Nwodim’s character — the eponymous Lisa, who’s from Temecula — orders a well-done steak whereas out to dinner with pals. Lisa appears fully unaware that she is violently shaking the desk, and disrupting your entire restaurant, as she tries to chop into the rock-hard steak. 

The sketch, which first aired in February, grew to become a viral sensation, racking in 5.2 million views on YouTube and galvanizing a follow-up sketch the place Lisa tosses a salad in probably the most obliviously unhinged method. 

Nwodim advised The Hollywood Reporter that when she first learn the script, she was involved she would not be capable of shake the desk laborious sufficient for the joke to land, regardless of having “oddly sturdy arms.”

“Our table-read desk is gigantic,” Nwodim advised THR. “It seats the entire solid, Lorne [Michaels] and the host. I used to be delivered a steak at our desk learn, and I used to be shaking the desk. So, like, your woman is type of sturdy. However on the desk learn, I used to be breaking like loopy.”

Then she discovered that through the precise reside efficiency, there could be an individual hiding beneath the desk who could be shaking it. 

“I am so grateful there’s somebody [under the table],” Nwodim advised THR, “As a result of the primary time I did Lisa From Temecula, I used to be like, ‘I do not need to alarm anybody, however how heavy is that this desk going to be? Am I going to have the ability to shake it whereas doing it?’”

Try the total interview over at The Hollywood Reporter.