I Want You Back marks your first time leading a straight-up classic rom-com. We went really Christmas-y with oranges and pomegranates and garlands of cranberry colored beads. I love the entire film, but the scene with the flowers…it made me horny.

We got married in our living room, which has high ceilings and beams, and I asked the florist to make it look like Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. It turned out to only be small, but even though we had been planning a much larger wedding, we still had the amount of flowers we would have had at a 200-person wedding.

In the week leading up to getting married, which was also the week that Omicron hit, I felt a real, increasing, glowy happiness. I’ll eat any morsel from the romantic realm that I can get. You just got married on New Year’s Eve-congratulations! I also recently got married and everybody always wants to know if anything feels different. Hijinx and unexpected romance ensues.Īhead, Slate explains why she wanted to get into the iconic rom-com game, and how her recent marriage to writer and artist Ben Shattuck and her entrée into motherhood (she welcomed her first child last February) have expanded her view of herself and her work. After meeting the also-recently-ditched Peter (Charlie Day) in a stairwell at work, the two hatch a plan to get their exes back by ruining their new relationships. 11, Slate plays Emma, a thirty-something who gets dumped by her nice guy-trainer boyfriend (Scott Eastwood). In Amazon’s charming I Want You Back, out Feb. It’s almost a stupid thing to say because it’s a caricature of myself.” And for many people who know Slate as the star of Obvious Child, the tender dramedy about a comedian who decides to have an abortion after a one-night stand… yeah, it’s pretty on the nose.īut Slate, 39, is also a stand-up, a best-selling author, a co-creator of the viral and beloved short film Marcel the Shell, a scene-stealer (just watch her play horned-up money-hungry Mona-Lisa Saperstein in Parks & Recreation), and a self-described “hyper-romantic.” Which is why her next turn as rom-com star just makes sense. When Jenny Slate appears in a little Zoom box, she admits, “Not to be too expected, but I just got back from the gynecologist.

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