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‘I’m Not an Ingénue Anymore, and I Don’t Really Know That I Ever Was’
Jenny Slate says she was offered “little carrier pigeon” roles for years. Dying for Sex finally lets her stretch her wings.
Jenny Slate remembers the moment she told her agent, “I’m not an ingénue anymore, and I don’t really know that I ever was.” The actress and stand-up certainly felt the pressure to be one early in her career — “or to inhabit one,” as she puts it, “but it never really was a good fit.” As a result, she says she was given “little carrier pigeon” jobs that never allowed her to exercise her full potential. I felt that my job was not to slip into any autopilot stuff, not try to please people by being funny if the situation didn’t call for it, and becoming comfortable with letting my understanding of Nikki develop as time went on. I wrote about it a little bit in my first book, but I really circled back to it during this job: What is the deep messaging inside of oneself that creates not a healthy boundary, but more of a limited space that we keep ourselves in?
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