That August, she and Camp co-wrote the first Marcel the Shell video. Despite performing in a respectable amount of sketches for a SNL freshman throughout the season, her contract was not renewed. On her first episode live from New York, she accidentally said the f-word. Slate spent exactly one season, from 2009 to 2010, in Studio 8H. She doesn’t mention it explicitly-because it’s already mentioned exhaustively when Slate’s career is brought into conversation-but the period of her life she’s referring to is just after she was fired from Saturday Night Live. I don’t always feel comfortable being outwardly aggressive.” I wanted to somehow plug into it with gentleness and love, because those are things I feel comfortable with. “I wanted to find a way to address it without it being a huge fight or a statement. “At the time I was just trying to be free and creative, because I felt like that was something that was being drained from my life and I didn’t like that,” Slate says about conceiving her shell. And in a strange way, Marcel, with all of his stuttering, sly gregariousness, and optimism, may have actually made all of this possible. Much has happened since Marcel and his dog on a leash (actually a hair tied to a piece of lint that he drags around) walked into Slate’s life three years ago: scene-stealing arcs on Parks and Recreation and House of Lies, a starring role on the FX comedy Married, and a transcendent performance in Obvious Child that’s gotten Slate marked as a darkhorse Oscar contender. The next adventure from her precocious creation, The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been, recounts a dramatic day in the life of our thimble-size hero, who we first met in 2010 when Slate and her husband, Dean Fleischer-Camp, put together a stop-motion video introducing the tiny seashell character. The occasion of our conversation is the upcoming release of the follow-up to her New York Times best-selling children’s book Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. She might actually get to have her Damon-cake and eat her buffalo chicken fingers, too. Everything has its worth.”Īs the most prolific, exciting, and game-changing year of her career draws to a close, it’s becoming ever-more clear that Slate might soon find her hopes fulfilled. Even if it meant I got to work with Matt Damon. A life without buffalo chicken fingers, I don’t know if I would want that life. I have big and little dreams and they’re all equally important to me. “I hope that one day I can work with Matt Damon. “I hope that the restaurant I go to will have buffalo chicken fingers,” she continues. The “Parks and Recreation” star was first spotted publicly with Shattuck in January 2019, announcing their engagement in September of the same year after he proposed in France.“I spend so much time hoping things for myself,” Jenny Slate tells me, near the end of an interview that covers everything from her time on Saturday Night Live, her quietly explosive performance in the indie “ abortion comedy” Obvious Child, and a teeny-tiny talking conch shell with a googly eye and jazzy pink sneakers (who may just have changed her life). Slate dated “Captain America” actor Chris Evans on-and-off for years, officially calling it quits March 2018. I feel like I can finally be what I want to be.” The couple share 1-year-old Ida Lupine. There are so many profound challenges, but I’ve never been happier in my life. Not at all that it’s not difficult and challenging to have a newborn baby. “Instead, I feel like it’s been the opposite of that for me. “At least, how I perceived it: in which she really, really, really loves us so much, and also, she often seemed really stressed out, and at loose ends, and at her wits’ end, and exhausted, and splattered in clay. “I only realized this after I had the baby, but I thought being a mother would be like a replica of my own mother’s experience with motherhood,” Slate, who is one of three children, shared. The “SNL” alum married her author husband in their living room. Slate, 39, and the 28-year-old author - who have been dating since 2019 - share 1-year-old daughter Ida Lupine.Īccording to Slate, the experience of motherhood has far exceeded her expectations. I didn’t realize how the large thing was making me feel uncomfortable, a little bit. “We each invited six friends… I actually like it. “We were planning on a that ended up being almost 200 people, and then now, it’s just our parents and siblings,” she explained. In a new interview with Marie Claire, the “Marcel the Shell” star shared that she wed Shattuck in their Massachusetts living room after three previous attempts at tying the knot were thwarted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jenny Slate revealed she married her fiancé, Ben Shattuck, in their living room on New Year’s Eve.
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