Except it isn’t, no matter how hard the left tries.
Via Slate:
If you aren’t already familiar with Jenny Slate from her brief stint on “Saturday Night Live” (she’s the one who made headlines for saying the f-word during her first live taping of the show), you probably know her as the voice behind the title character in “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” the stop-motion short she made with her husband Dean Fleischer-Camp that became a viral smash and screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. She has also appeared on TV in “Parks and Recreation” and “Girls.” In Gillian Robespierre’s comedy “Obvious Child” (based on an original 20-minute short also starring Slate), which was acquired by A24 shortly following its Sundance world premiere earlier this year, Slate proves she can carry a project solo. Slate shines playing Donna, a Brooklyn-based comedian and lovable hot mess who decides to have an abortion after getting impregnated by a guy she met at a bar.
“I like watching our movie because except for the wine-stained teeth, I mostly look like myself.”
Indiewire sat down with Slate in New York the morning after a special screening of the comedy.
About not liking you… Have you encountered any negative reactions to the film on the festival circuit? From pro-life folk and the like.
No. Not yet. I think anyone would admit that there is still usually laughter in the harder and darker times in our lives. I think that’s in human nature and it’s usually appreciated. Just because there is laughter in our movie in a time when the character is going through a larger life decision, laughter doesn’t mean disrespect. It can often mean relief. It can often mean an acknowledgment that bad times can pass. And that a lot of things happen at once. And I think our film–it’s thoughtful and we treat a subject that is hush hush with a firm hand. But not a rough hand and not a limp hand. It’s like we treat it like something that is normal. And in normal life, people have friends that have abortions. People have abortions themselves. And it’s not a giant plot point. It’s different for everybody. And I think because there is that respect there, people see the love and get that more than anything else.