Hello and welcome to the big picture. My name is Sean Fennesy. I'm the editor and chief

of the ringer. We have a great show today. Four guests. Three of them were interviewed.

One of them would be having a chat with me. The three guests are Jenny Slate, Gillian

Roves-Pierre, the director, and Elizabeth Holmes, the writer and producer. And we're here

to talk about landline, their new film, which I'm very excited about. But before that happens,

joined by culture editor Amanda Dobbins. Amanda, thank you for being here with me.

Thank you for having me. Amanda, I have a very exciting show today because I was joined

by three other women. Very exciting. All righty. But I wanted to talk to you first, because

I'm hoping you can give us a little bit of context about Gillian and Jenny and Elizabeth

and what they do. And also maybe we can talk a little more broadly about the movies that

they make and what has happened to them. So help me understand what Gillian and Jenny

did before this new movie landline. So Gillian and Jenny, I would say are both

best known for a film called Obvious Child, which was Gillian's debut. And Jenny Slate's

kind of first big post-Saturday Night Live moment. I guess she's famously known for cursing

on Saturday Night Live and then Obvious Child. That's right. Obvious Child came out in 2014

and the most basic description of it is that it is about a young woman in Brooklyn who has

a one night stand gets pregnant by accident. And then ultimately decides to have an abortion.

That's the movie. And it is a romcom as well because there is kind of a secondary, will

they want to with the gentleman in question from the one night stand. Will there be a second

night? Yeah. But it was in addition to being a romcom, it's obviously a kind of very Brooklyn

situational film of a certain moment that it was very well received at the time. It was kind

of around, girls was still very much in its stride and it kind of was up that vein of like young

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