Jenny Slate gets the Obvious Child gang back together
When Obvious Child premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, it heralded the beginnings of three extremely promising film careers. Jenny Slate, though she’d spent one season as a Saturday Night Live cast member, was still mostly known as a live performer in New York City. It was at one such performance that Gillian Robespierre, an aspiring filmmaker working as a production assistant, approached her about playing the lead in a short film. When it came time to adapt that short film into a feature, Elisabeth Holm, a film program director at Kickstarter, joined the team as a producer. The resulting film received overwhelmingly positive reviews, and led to a spate of creative opportunities for all three women. That team is now coming back together again for another film, according to The Hollywood Reporter.