Jenny Slate
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907 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 Jan
Jenny Slate’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I felt like I should ask now to see on this day of like beautiful beauty, like the earth was sort of warming up and the pink blossoms and it smelled so good. And I texted you and was like, I know it's last minute, but would you still be willing to share those pictures? Yeah, I sort of felt like I had like Molly's permission, not just yours, but to look at them that day.
And I sent him probably right over because I didn't know this. Yeah, it was so lovely. And I was looking at them before I drove the car into that scene, which is also kind of confusing to me because it's like you don't roll up crying. That's not a great moment before, right? Right. But I guess I wanted to know in my mind that. this woman's life is about to change.
And this is what the end of the story kind of looks like. And I haven't really had an experience like that ever.
I'm so glad you say that. I think, you know, one of the things I loved the most about the script was that humor isn't like a gimmick and it's not a cheat in terms of like, oh, how do I get around not feeling scared and bad? But in fact, it's that... Nikki and Molly just love each other so much.
There's just so much joy and gratitude in the fact that they have each other that they will grab at any extra joy, any extra laugh.
If it occurs. And like there's a scene where they're in the bathroom and Molly is writing in her journal and she's reading to Nikki and... you know, it's very pivotal. It's incredibly serious. It's not a joke. No one should joke about what's in that moment. And yet, because they're real people, that scene does end in a really funny way. It's kind of like, you know, Church giggles, as they say.
You know, you probably shouldn't be laughing, but you can't stop. But the comedy comes from actually being alive and not being desperate to experience something good, but just really eating up those morsels of, like... sweetness and real, real friendship.
I don't know. It just happened. I think it's first of all, it's all on the page. And then it's all in the podcast, the connection between you and Molly and then on the page, the connection between the characters of Nikki and Molly. Right.
It's to understand the character and imbue her with someone who has complete concern, complete loyalty, ever-expanding love and joy and total access to this other person. Can I get some more blankets?
Yes. Why are her hands bolted down?
And in terms of her own, Mike, what's on your hat?
Yeah. I mean, this might seem like it's coming from left field. And also one would think like you learn from the character you play, but in fact, you learn from everyone in the story. At least I do. And I thought a lot about Molly and what she was unable to confront for so long. You begin to understand that.
Molly believes in an ever-present, always threatening, like tightly, the springs are ready to spring off badness. And the badness is going to come out. And it's already directed her and her life. And when I watched that, I started thinking about my own fear of death.
upsetting people, my own fear of being criticized, and how that can make me impatient, angry, and scared sometimes, even if I don't express it the way that Molly expresses her own anger when she eventually does, or how Nikki immediately expresses anger. And I really thought about it and I was watching Molly and watching Michelle.
And I got to this really weird place of unexpected catharsis, which was like, oh, I think I've been thinking that there's something deeply wrong with me for basically my entire life. And I was able to really start to let that go during this work. Anyway, I've been thinking of the difference between...
something bad happened or I even did something bad and I'm bad yeah is so important and you can intellectualize it and you can suggest that other people go you know and understand that and live by it but I actually don't think I have been living according to that line of thinking until I made this show Oh, I love that.
I'm glad. Yeah, that was one of my favorite scenes when I read the script. And I actually think that that scene was the scene that when I read it, I started to have that feeling of like, oh man, I would love to be able to do that.
Yeah. Yeah. And that, you know, that's the moment for me where you realize that Molly has decided she wants to experience sex. She's had an awakening. She's being called, in fact, by her child self. It's sort of an awakening. It's also a reckoning. And it's a big, bold, beautiful chance at not dying in sex.
pain, I mean, in emotional pain, but living to the very end in understanding and with the courage to face that which has been sort of hounding you. And for Nikki, She starts being like, I'm not good at taking care of people. I have no idea what I'm doing. And for me, in the moment where Nikki says, now I know that I can. I can love fully. I can love both while being my total self and selflessly.
I know what it's like to completely risk everything. because love is so glorious. Nikki gets that incredible self-reliance and self-esteem that one can experience from understanding themselves as a person who is the center of receiving and giving love. Yes. I really, I love that.
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