NORMAN LEAR: What is the biggest single laugh you’re responsible for? Did you know it was coming? Should I one day play a virtuous woman or, say, somebody who’s tall, it would be a longer journey back to myself. That really makes it quite easy to return to myself. I guess that’s why I’ve specialized in shallow, cruel, vain, and venal women. I’m more likely to find little parts of myself in the roles I play. LOUIS-DREYFUS: Well, first of all, Toni, you’re the sort of actress who disappears completely into a role. How do you let them go and how do you return to yourself, your center, again? TONI COLLETTE: You’ve played more than one character for extended periods of time. Hayes’s compromise between the Democratic South and Republicans in 1877 ending Reconstruction and enshrining racism in the American body politic is among the saddest, most disappointing single acts by any U.S. If you were to look at the past, I would think Rutherford B. The easy answer is obviously Trump or Bolsonaro or Orbán, scoundrels of that ilk, but they can’t really disappoint since they arrived with such clarity of conviction. LOUIS-DREYFUS: I should be asking you that question because you actually have to talk to all of these assholes. JAKE TAPPER: Which politician disappointed you the most? That should answer your second absurd question. LOUIS-DREYFUS: Why are you asking me what cocktail I want? It’s your job to know what cocktail I want and, frankly, what I want generally speaking. TONY HALE: If Gary was your ski valet or, better yet, when I’m your ski valet, which cocktail would you like waiting at the lodge? And because they’re all asking: Givenchy, Dior, or Alaïa for your ski outfit? That’s the kind of thing my executive producer would figure out. But since I don’t believe in the death penalty, I’d have to think of a new kind of execution that would be both lethal and at the same time, non-lethal. I would institute a regulation requiring any public official who denies climate change to be executed. Third, I’d rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement. My next executive order would be to take all white men off of all currency, and I would put people like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, and Jackie Robinson on the money. LOUIS-DREYFUS: The first thing I would do by executive order would be to make you my administration’s executive producer, since you did such a good job with Veep and because, frankly, it’s all showbiz anyway. The only thing I need to know is: What rhymes with Nantucket?įRANK RICH: What are the first three executive orders you will sign as Julia, not Selina, upon being sworn in as the next president of the United States? That’s why I’m currently working on a limerick that is so powerful it will reduce carbon emissions by 43 percent worldwide. LOUIS-DREYFUS: A huge laugh is a very worthy thing all by itself, but if there’s a huge laugh that also challenges or changes, so much the better. STEPHEN FRY: Is laughter enough or should comedy challenge and change? I’m not sure how my eggs are cooked, as that’s handled by my staff, specifically the egg team within my staff. I would like to take the opportunity to say that your eggs have produced a truly adorable and potentially delicious child. JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS: Thank you for the question, Amy. Here, Louis-Dreyfus graciously took some time out of her busy schedule-on her birthday-to answer some questions from a few fancy people who also really, really like Julia. Next up, she stars opposite Will Ferrell in the dramedy Downhill, about a married couple whose relationship is tested during an Alpine ski vacation gone awry. And as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld, she established herself as the best worst dancer in television history. In 2006, she became the first former female cast member of Saturday Night Live, where she launched her comedy career in 1982, to host the show. She shares the record for most Emmy wins by a single performer, with eight (one for Seinfeld, in 1996, one for The New Adventures of Old Christine, in 2006, and six in as many years for Veep), and has three more for producing Veep, which ended last year. At 59, Louis-Dreyfus’s achievements ring loud. Despite excelling at playing amoral characters such as Selina Meyer, the flailing politician she embodied for seven seasons on HBO’s poison-tipped satire Veep, you just can’t help but root for her. Maybe he didn’t realize it in the moment, but Seinfeld had identified the special alchemy that has made Louis-Dreyfus one of the most indelible actors of our time. Jerry Seinfeld could have been speaking for all of us when, in 2018, he stood on stage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and told a full house,“I just really, really like Julia.” He was, of course, referring to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, his co-star for nine seasons on the sitcom Seinfeld, who that night was accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
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