14 DAY TRIAL // The industry is filled with examples of actors and actresses who get one smashing hit and then never quite manage to achieve the same feat again no matter how hard they work. Industry insiders call it a “curse” (similar to curse of the one-hit wonder) but, if there ever was one for “Seinfeld,” Julia Louis-Dreyfus is safe from it.
She has her own, very successful and critically acclaimed comedy show on TV, “Veep” and she’s just been crowned by Rolling Stone magazine “The First Lady of Comedy.”
She is featured on the cover of the publication wearing nothing but a fake tattoo of an excerpt from the US Constitution all across her back, as she’s turning and smiling to the camera surprised, as if she was caught by the photographer unaware.
Julia joked on her Facebook that she had a very good, though not too reasonable, excuse for the pic, writing “In my defense, ‘I was in a drunken stupor.’ #crackexcuse.”
Her interview is just as funny, from what we can tell from the excerpts released so far. For starters, Julia takes the time to set the record straight on a rumor that’s been around for many years, namely that she’s a billionaire.
She’s supposedly so not because of her work in television and film, but because she is her father’s daughter – her father being the founder and owner of the Louis Dreyfus corporation, “which had holdings in energy, soybean-crushing plants and real estate – and recently donated $1 million [€721,501] to help eradicate voter suppression,” the magazine explains.
It’s the silliest little rumor ever, the actress says. “I’ve been attached to that. It’s unbelievable, because whatever I do, people just assume it’s true. Welcome to the [expletive]-in’ Internet,” she laughs.
On a more serious note, she talks about sexism in the industry and, far from denying it, she says she refuses to let it work against her. “I just pay it no nevermind and say, ‘Get out of my way’,” Julia says.
As expected, she also talks about “Veep” and how she likes to stray off-script with her character and how much fun she has with her co-stars when it comes to inventing swear words.
“Once, when we were trying to come up with the particular perfect, horrible, swear-y thing to say in Veep, I said, ‘You do realize that if we were 12, we would get in big trouble for this conversation.’ That was not part of the curriculum in high school, and the fact that it is now a part of the curriculum of my life is a pleasure, which is the understatement of the universe,” she laughs.
The full interview will be available with the magazine, out on newsstands this Friday.