Jenny Slate Had an Awkward Encounter with Ron Howard at a Party: 'What a Burn'

Jenny Slate's hubby mightiness person a domiciled successful a Ron Howard movie earlier she does — and he's not moreover an actor!

During an question and reply connected Jimmy Kimmel Live! Tuesday, June 3, nan Dying for Sex prima recalled erstwhile coming into interaction pinch Howard astatine "a fancy party" astir nan clip erstwhile she and now-husband Ben Shattuck had conscionable begun dating.

"There was 1 of those photograph booths. So we sewage our image taken, and past Ron Howard — nan award-winning, legendary head — comes up to nan photograph booth. Fascinating, can't fig retired really to activity it. Truly," said Slate, 43. "I'm like, what?!"

But she soon realized it mightiness beryllium a bully clip to sprout her changeable pinch Howard, 71. As nan character and comedian explained, "I'm like, 'Oh my god, it's Ron Howard!' Like, 'This is really I meet him. And past possibly he'll spot maine and beryllium like, "Oh, I'm making a movie astir Jewish group successful nan past." ' "

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So Slate enlisted Shattuck — a writer and creator who didn't admit nan Oscar-winning filmmaker, to Slate's daze — to assistance successful helping Howard activity nan photograph booth, arsenic a measurement to gain his bully graces.

"My husband's like, 'Here, sir, here's really you do nan clicker,' " she recalled to Jimmy Kimmel. "I'm opinionated location [posing]."

Slate went on, "And he looks afloat past maine astatine my handsome husband, who does not ever want to beryllium a performer and does not care, and legitimately, this is what he says: 'Step into nan light.' "

Reliving nan daze of nan moment, nan It Ends pinch Us prima continued, "I'm like, 'For him?! He doesn't want it! He doesn't want it for illustration I want it!' My husband's for illustration [smiling]. He sewage discovered, didn't care."

"I understand it, I conscionable for illustration ... what a burn, for me," Slate added.

Slate tied nan knot pinch Shattuck successful their surviving room connected New Year's Eve successful 2021, aft welcoming their first kid together, girl Ida, nan erstwhile February.

The Lifeform writer told PEOPLE this past October that penning a book that was successful ample portion astir motherhood while still successful nan early years of it herself felt for illustration “this benignant of duality aft having my daughter, and successful a benignant of prolonged postpartum space.”

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And while she acknowledged nan value of remaining applicable successful imaginative industries, nan personification Slate astir wants to please pinch immoderate fixed task — including Lifeform — is herself. "I was precocious signaling nan audiobook, and I was delighted by nan truth that I enjoyed reference nan pieces arsenic overmuch arsenic I hoped I would," she added.

“I thin to support my activity beautiful personally geared, which isn't to opportunity that if I americium to person a critique that feels for illustration a misunderstanding, aliases I perceive personification successful nan supermarket, saying I'm not funny aliases something, I'm a normal person. Of course, that's gonna wounded my feelings,” Slate explained. “I'm not like, supra it. But I person worked really difficult to beryllium self-contained successful terms, successful position of really I spot my activity and my ain production.”