The star of Seinfeld, Veep and new film You Hurt My Feelings has barely put a foot wrong in her 40-year career.
She discusses juggling parenting and working, dark days on SNL – and celebrating older womenJulia Louis-Dreyfus and Nicole Holofcener trusted each other immediately.
In the early 2010s, they met to discuss whether Louis-Dreyfus would star in the indie director’s next film, the offbeat romantic comedy Enough Said.
“We got along so well that I was kind of baffled we hadn’t met until then,” says Louis‑Dreyfus.
She signed up.At the first table read, Holofcener remembers her horseplay with the actor who played Seinfeld’s infamous Elaine Benes all but overshadowing the co-lead, James Gandolfini: “We could finish each other’s sentences – she so got the materials, she so got me.
She would jump in with ideas that were generally fantastic.
And we would laugh until we peed.
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