How Jenny Slate Found Her Voice in a Tiny Seashell

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“I got to a point of not necessarily being disappointed with the people online, but being disappointed with myself,” she recalls of the evolution that led her to create 'Marcel the Shell'. “I suddenly was like, ‘Oh shit. I don't like how I'm acting.’”

Slate compares her discovery of Marcel to “when you finally find something like a coat or a pair of pants. And you're like, ‘I finally get what my style is.’” As for Marcel’s literal style, Fleischer-Camp would be the one to quickly outfit his prototype from found objects in their apartment and at the local Brooklyn toy store. Slate first encountered the Polly Pocket sneaker-wearing seashell on her kitchen counter when she arrived home.

To finally shout your true voice into the void that is the Internet, and hear it echoed back with adoration, is surely a confirmation that you’ve found the right place in some ways. But, as for the setting itself, Slate didn’t exactly find herself at home. “I’ve neverrr …related to the Internet,” she laughs.

Slate has resolved that she is just simply not someone cut out for a life online. “Some people, it is really good for them and some people can handle it. There’s also people that climb Mount Everest and people that, like, fix people's heart valves for a living,” she laughs, “I’m just not a very extreme person in that way. I actually just love an interpersonal eye contact moment.”

But his seemingly-endless network of connection quickly proves to be disillusioning when he enlists the help of his thousands of fans to help in finding his family. “There’s so much nothing,” he says while reading endless meaningless comments on his videos. One comment, signed “peace and love” especially sets him off–which Slate admits was actually just a rant of her own caught on tape. “When we would record Marcel, I'd just kinda stay in the voice all day long for the most part.

Remnants of Slate and Fleischer-Camp’s own relationship even seem to be imprinted into the film’s DNA, as romantic relationships in the human realm play a ruling force in Marcel’s world. Fleischer-Camp recently toldthat his character, who is revealed to be nursing a romantic wound through the documentary project, is “a version of myself that doesn’t exist anymore.” Slate is also quick to point out which parts of Marcel's psyche were passed down from her or Fleischer-Camp.

Some of the duo’s scenes together were even recorded on Rosselini’s farm in upstate New York–offering a high-fidelity soundstage for field recordings of Nana Connie’s garden. As for jumping into improvising with Hollywood royalty as your scene partner, Slate admits she felt pretty shy at first–which, in true Slate fashion, she clarifies is “a really nice feeling.”

 

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