Jenny Slate found a new sense of purpose and confidence filming Carousel after the drama surrounding 2024’s It Ends With Us.
“I think what I found in myself during this shoot was renewed gratitude for the combination in my personality that is shyness and hopefulness that becomes this strange, gregariousness that feels so good to have,” Slate, 43, told Deadline on Saturday, January 24, during an appearance at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. “It just feels so good to be that way.”
She continued, “I think I also upped my confidence or my sense of legitimacy and the value of myself as a dramatic performer.”
Slate stars as Rebecca in Rachel Lambert’s upcoming romantic drama, Carousel, where her character reconnects with high school boyfriend Noah (Chris Pine).
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“I don’t really associate myself with stillness or even patience, although I try for patience,” Slate admitted to Deadline of the differences between herself and her character. “I’m not sure that I’m exactly capable of, like, what most people would think of stillness, but I think of Rebecca as a much more still person than I am.”
According to Slate, she’s not similar to her character in real life.
“I don’t think I’m really like Rebecca at all, except for that I want love and a partner and I hold onto love,” she told the outlet.
Before filming Carousel, Slate worked on the now-infamous film, It Ends With Us. The 2024 movie was adapted from Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel, chronicling a couple, Ryle (Justin Baldoni) and Lily (Blake Lively), in an abusive relationship. Slate appeared as Allysa, Ryle’s sister and a close friend of Lily’s.
Several months It Ends With Us’ summer 2024 premiere, news broke in December 2024 that Lively, 38, sued her costar and director Baldoni, 42, for alleged sexual harassment, fostering a hostile work environment and attempting to ruin her reputation.
Baldoni vehemently denied the accusations, while the pair’s former It Ends With Us costars have publicly declined to take sides.
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“I don’t have anything to say about that,” Slate told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2025 when asked to compare working on It Ends With Us to her Dying for Sex miniseries. “Everything is its own thing. I poured my heart into this work, and every minute of [Dying for Sex] was important to me, and I just want to talk about that.”
She continued, “Anyone can ask anything, but my only responsibility is to speak about the work I’m there to promote. It was so important to me to get this job, so why would I spend time talking about anything but that?”
As the legal battle continues, a judge unsealed a handful of text messages from the It Ends With Us crew earlier this month. In court documents obtained by Us Weekly, Slate allegedly told her team where she stood with Baldoni after the film shoot.
“Hey guys — I don’t want to do anything with Justin, I don’t want to talk about him, like … nothing,” Slate allegedly wrote in a June 2023 text. “I’m just not sure how visible I want to be in this [press] campaign, and looking over this list, I’m wondering if actually we SHOULD wait a beat. What is Blake going to do?”
In follow-up texts, Slate claimed that Baldoni was the “biggest clown and the most intense narcissist” and that the entire production shoot felt “really gross.”
“I’m one of many who feel [this] way,” she sent in a text.
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