Interview With "Marcel The Shell With Shoes On" Producer/Writer Elisabeth Holm & Animation Director Kirsten Lepore

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

"Marcel The Shell With Shoes On" premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2021 and received universal acclaim for its story as the viral YouTube internet sensation transitioned to a feature film and the voice acting from Jenny Slate and Isabella Rossellini. A mixture of stop-motion animation and live-action, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. Producer and writer Elisabeth Holm and Animation Director Kirsten Lepore were kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their work on the film and reflecting on the experience all this time later. Please take a listen down below and enjoy. Thank you! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Emma Sassick's interview,
0:05.6	with the producer and writer for Marcel Vishel with shoes on, Elizabeth Holm,
0:11.3	and the animation director, Kirsten Lepore.
0:15.0	All right, so I'm making, like, a little documentary.
0:17.8	Oh, it's like a movie, but nobody has any lines lines and nobody even knows what it is while they're making it.
0:22.6	No.
0:27.6	Tell me about what's life like.
0:29.6	It's pretty much common knowledge that it takes at least 20 shells to have a community.
0:34.6	My cousin fell asleep in a pocket and that's why I don't like the saying
0:39.0	everything comes out of the wash. Because sometimes it doesn't, or sometimes it does, and they're
0:43.9	just like a completely different person. So it's actually only two of us now. Myself and my grandmother,
0:51.2	Nana Connie, we like to watch 60 minutes because Leslie Stahl is fearless.
0:57.0	Nana, make the noise.
0:59.0	Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
1:01.0	Sometimes I find my mind wandering, thinking, what would my family think?
1:08.0	Do you think they could be out there?
1:14.1	Marcello, let's forget about being afraid.
1:17.4	Just take the adventure.
1:19.7	Okay, let's do it.
1:23.3	Hi, everybody. It's Marcel.
1:25.9	I'm recording this video because I'm looking for my family.
1:33.9	Marcel the Shell and the search for a family reunited.
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