The Casual Genius of Jenny Slate: ‘Marcel the Shell,’ ‘Obvious Child,’ and the Ghost of ‘SNL’
The Obvious Star
How do you make everyone forget about cursing on ‘SNL’? You stun critics in a hit indie film. And you charm them with the return of a talking seashell.
“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
