Sun’s out, fun’s out!
Her career as a stand-up comedian, actress and animation MVP extends to movies such asObvious Child,ZootopiaandGifted.
That’s where I was in my creative life at the time."

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I feel like I’ve never had something that offered me a real infusion of warmth and comfort.
But the Marcel voice for mewasthat, and is that.
I do it a lot in my life, even when I’m not performing.

From left, Jenny Slate, producer Elisabeth Holm, cowriter-editor Nick Paley, Dean Fleischer-Camp, and voice talent Isabella Rossellini.MARCEL THE MOVIE LLC
Marcel is gentle."
Gentleness isn’t something you associate with summer movies, nor with the hard-bitten Brooklyn comedy scene.
It was not the kind of place where anyone expected to have their heart warmed."
Suddenly, there was studio interest.
And we felt, Oh, this is sort of dangerous.
What they’re seeing is it could be the next Minions."
“We’d never doubted that it could be feature-length,” Slate says.
“We always felt like there was enough there.
We’re not trying to send him into the tundra.”
“That’s, for me, why it feels so alive.
It’s a moving photographic image of my own emotions or something.
I love it so much.”