Of course JennySlate and Marcel the Shell coordinated their Oscar looks. Here, the actress discusses attending her first-ever Oscars, and seeing her custom ThomBrowne gown for the first time.
The Academy Award nominee was overcome with emotion when she first saw her Thom Browne gown.Thirteen years ago, the actress, comedian, and writer Jenny Slate was packed into a tiny hotel room with a bunch of friends, awaiting an imminent firing from her post on. At that time, she was a cast member on the NBC late-night show, but things weren’t working out. Stress flooded her veins and claustrophobia began to set in.
“There’s a lot about this that makes me feel like a middle schooler again,” she told me over the phone with a laugh. “There’s a big part of me that will always be like, Are you sure I’m supposed to be here? Am I gonna get kicked out? Is someone gonna make fun of me? Am I gonna fall down by mistake?” Slate said that for most of awards season, she’s felt a healthy amount of impostor syndrome. “I thought if I was ever in a movie that was nominated for an Oscar, I would probably be playing a Jewish person from the past,” she added. “An immigrant on Hester Street, or in a Holocaust drama.
For her first fitting, the actress invited representatives from Thom Browne to her house; she made them cookies and put out clementines and seltzers . “I always knew it would be beautiful, but I started crying when I saw it for the first time,” she recalled. “I just felt like, oh man, is this what Michelle Yeoh is doing while she’s putting on her gown? Is she bursting into tears? What are the superstars doing? Because I wanna act like them.
Typically on Oscars Sunday, Slate hosts a watch party with friends, family, and colleagues; they make punny hors d’oeurves that riff on the names of the nominated movies . This year, Slate said she’ll be giving her daughter “a million kisses on different parts of her face” before heading to the hotel to get ready for the big event.
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