There are ideas that I’ve had, that just never made it past that weird paragraph that I wrote where I was like, “The movie is about a guy that owns a piano factory.” And then I never did it. It’s so hard to answer that question because I’m not a person obsessed with follow through. How do you stick with something that long? Do you get to a point where you don’t want to do it anymore, when something takes that long to make? Jenny Slate: I certainly don’t get to a point where I don’t want to do something anymore, I guess, or I haven’t had that happen yet. Vanity Fair: So, the making of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On has been a seven-year process. “I brought my baby over to play with their baby, it was very fun,” Slate says.) (As it turns out, that one’s a family affair-the film’s codirector Dan Kwan is married to Marcel’s animation director Kirsten Lepore. During those years Slate’s career has included a string of stand-up shows, voice roles in everything from The Lego Batman Movie to Muppet Babies, a book, and a brief but memorable role in the spring’s breakout hit Everything Everywhere All at Once. Slate and director Dean Fleischer Camp got divorced while still making the feature together. A whole lot of life has happened since then. The stop-motion animated film didn’t just take seven years to make, but began way back in 2010, with an online short so old it has Marcel using a flip phone. To look back at the making of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On takes a lot of thinking. In interviews, she says, “I solve things about my own current development, or I look back and actually have to focus up on, ‘What did happen here?’” “I find that I solve things for myself,” she says cheerfully from a suite in a downtown New York hotel, betraying no sense that she’d rather be back in the bucolic-seeming coastal Massachusetts town where she lives with her husband and daughter. Jenny Slate swears she loves doing interviews. A guide to Hollywood’s biggest races Arrow
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