Ammonite and Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Now, Saturday Night Live has skewered the tendency of Hollywood to cast straight actors to play queer women in stories set in past centuries with a sketch starring guest host Carey Mulligan and Heidi Gardner in SNL’s version of the Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan starrer Ammonite.The faux trailer begins with Beck Bennett dropping his wife off with an older woman at the seaside citing that he’s leaving her there because she’s a “bummer.”“Starring two actresses who dared not to wear makeup, 12 lines of dialogue, two-and-a-half-hour runtime,” the voiceover states. “Watch in heated anticipation as they round all the bases like grazing fingers, washing carrots, and fast, aggressive this [as the camera.