Jenny Slate chats with THR on the pink carpet for 'It Ends With Us' and recalls working through her challenging monologue in the film. Plus, she dishes on her instant bond with Blake Lively both on and off screen.
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00:00I know that this movie and this book deals with a lot of heavy topics and I
00:04just wanted to call out a monologue that you say at the end of the movie.
00:07It was really beautifully done. How challenging was it to work through that scene?
00:11That's a big challenge. I think it's a big challenge to
00:15play someone who has received devastating news or
00:20like just a heartbreaking story, a life-changing story.
00:23You know, this character, I don't want to do any spoils, spoils, spoils,
00:27spoils, right? That's what everybody always says. I don't want to do spoils so
00:31I won't do spoils. But yeah, I think I really wanted to be able to show that my
00:38character Alyssa is okay with showing heartbreak and showing that she's sad
00:45without putting shame back onto Blake's character Lily and I think that's like a
00:51really hard line to walk but I felt proud of it at the end of the day. I felt that
00:57we were both able to show two women who were handling many things at once and
01:01remaining bonded, remaining strong, yeah.
01:05I know your character and Blake's character build such an instant bond
01:09from the beginning. How were you able to build off of that off-screen and was
01:13there anything that kind of, you had any bonding activities off-screen to kind of
01:17build that?
01:18I think it was one of those lucky situations where you're cast as
01:22people who hopefully have this instant chemistry because of course Alyssa walks
01:26into Lily's flower shop and like asks for a job right then but I feel that in our
01:32own way Blake and I had that experience that we were just kind of curious about
01:37each other and Blake is really warm. She really asks a lot of beautiful questions.
01:43She's very caring and willing to share and for me that's kind of like
01:50it's all I like. You know, it's like my favorite thing. It's like I just really
01:53like that and I'm very chatty and I felt like we fell right into a chatty onset
01:58vibe that then became deep and I'm really grateful for our friendship, yeah.