Laura Benanti on Bringing Melania Trump Impression to SNL: 'Yes, Please!'

In a new interview with ET, Broadway's Laura Benanti discussed the events which led up to her dead-on impression of Melania Trump on last night's LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT.

"I had been on the show in March to promote SHE LOVES ME and Stephen pointed out my physical resemblance to her," explained the Tony nominee. "Then Monday night, after her RNC speech, I got a call from a producer asking me if I would come and do a sketch. I didn't know what the sketch was going to be. I just said, "Yes, of course," and I got my a** on a train. I basically listened to her speak and watched her mouth really intently for about two and a half hours next to a man on a train who thought I was an insane person."

Benanti goes on to explain how she was able to capture Ms. Trump's voice to a tee. "Her voice is higher than I thought it would be and a little more nasally, but I think that she was quote-unquote making a speech. She definitely had that tone of [imitates Melania Trump's robotic tone] "someone who is talking a speech for the first time."

She continues, "Slovene is actually a really difficult dialect. Slovenia is a very, very small area, but they have so many different dialects and some people can't even understand each other even though they live in the same area. So, working up her dialect in a way that didn't feel like I was mocking a dialect was the most challenging part of it."

The video of last night's Trump spoof has already gone viral, prompting fans on Twitter to suggest that Ms. Benanti bring her impression to the upcoming season of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Asked if she would be open to the idea, the talented actress gushed, "Yes, please! Of course."

Read the interview in full HERE and watch last night's LATE SHOW appearance below:

Benanti recently made her return to the Broadway stage along with actor Zachary Levi in a revival of the musical She Loves Me for which she received a Tony nomination.

The Tony Award-winner can currently be seen in the role of Alura Zor-El in theCBS Action Drama, Supergirl. In 2014, she joined the cast of ABC's hit series "Nashville" guest-starring as songbird Sadie Stone. Laura also appeared in recurring roles on CBS's "The Good Wife" and HBO's "Nurse Jackie."

In addition to television work and her critically acclaimed performance as Elsa Schrader in NBC's The Sound of Music LIVE, Ms. Benanti is a highly celebrated, four time Tony Award-nominated stage actress who took Broadway by storm at the age of 18.