Jenny Slate

ONE OF THE FIRST YOUTUBE VIRAL VIDEOS WAS MARCEL THE SHELL WITH Shoes On. Released in 2010 and created and voiced by Jenny Slate with Dean Fleischer-Camp, the video about a talking shell has since raked in millions of views, been turned into a children's book and now is a new film from the studio A24.

- H. Alan Scott

Behind the voice it started with, Slate says, were "confusing, dissonant feelings about my own worth as a performer, as a person." In the film, Marcel teams up with a new friend Dean to find his family, along the way being interviewed by his hero, Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes. "Marcel says she's got class and she does." What makes the film version of Marcel different is how unexpectedly deep and therapeutic it is. "Marcel, in different ways, has always felt incredibly important, boundary-breaking and self-affirming to me." After the pandemic, a universal story of bonding with loved ones and reconnecting with family is not only what fans of Marcel needed, but it'