That interest would spill over to their personal lives as well Louis-Dreyfus recalls with horror the day she and Hall came home from the hospital with their second son (now a basketball player at Northwestern) to find a swarm of paparazzi outside their house. Everything from the series’ major plot points to the $600,000-per-episode salaries that Louis-Dreyfus and her co-stars Jason Alexander and Michael Richards secured for the show’s ninth and final season were splashed across the press. Seinfeld famously struggled during its early years, but by the series’ fifth season it was a full-blown juggernaut, among the highest-rated shows on television and with a regular audience of more than 30 million. Though her memories of the period are largely bleak, she did emerge with some name recognition within NBC and a bond with Larry David, a writer who was just as miserable there as she was. I just thought, ‘That’s so weird that that guy’s sketch is 17 pages long and at the table read he’s howling laughing.’ ” Louis-Dreyfus left in 1985 after three seasons. “It was this very chauvinistic situation back then: very few women, lots of sexism, issues of sexual harassment and some really big-time drugs,” she continues. Under normal circumstances, that may have marked the end of the show - “When a creator says, ‘I think I’m done,’ we usually agree,” says HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo - but Louis-Dreyfus wasn’t ready to relinquish the role of Selina Meyer. For the first time, the show will be without its auteur, Armando Iannucci, who announced last spring that he’d be moving on. One could convincingly argue she has nothing left to prove on the small screen and yet, when Veep returns for its fifth season April 24, the spotlight will be on her in an entirely new way.
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She also is the only one to have taken home Emmys for three different series - Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine and now Veep, for which she has won four consecutive times.
That instinct to embrace the humor of almost any situation helped Louis-Dreyfus, 55, eclipse a similarly fearless performer, Lucille Ball, to become the most nominated comedy actress in television history. Louis-Dreyfus - whose on-set hairstylist has worked with Clinton and had relayed the actress’ admiration to her - keeps both notes framed side by side in her office. “I mean, it’s perfect - just perfect.” The joke, she understood, was on her, as if ripped from a Veep script. When I ask the seven-time Emmy winner whether she was piqued that Clinton might not be the loyal viewer she professed to be, Louis-Dreyfus cocks back her head of thick black curls and laughs. Russo responded: “Let me brainstorm on this one/do some research. Any ideas?” Clinton wrote, her question (and mangling of the star’s name) suggesting unfamiliarity with the series. “A friend wants me to sign something for Julia Lewis-Dreyfus for Veep. This one, dated around the same time and unveiled as part of a batch of exposed Clinton emails, was from the secretary of state to her then-aide, Robert V. Then, some two years later, Louis-Dreyfus would learn of a second document - the note behind the note, as it were.
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