From 90s hair-spiration in Seinfeld to the president in Veep,snogging Bryan Cranston and tackling industry sexism, she plays the Hollywood game perfectly
As Veep enters its fifth triumphant series, and I’d like to spew forth my unfiltered admiration for Julia Louis-Dreyfus. My 90s hair-spiration as Elaine Benes in Seinfeld,she has come to mean so much more to me than that. She navigates a career in Hollywood in which she has never been the “girlfriend or the stereotypical female “voice of reason” to her more prominently featured male counterparts. And now she is playing the leader of the free world, albeit a seriously inept (not suitable or capable, unqualified) one, and it looks like there’s tiny left for her to conquer.[br]She is one of the few women in US television to clown and belch and discard all vanity in the name of laughs. Her performances are entirely laugh-focused,whatever it takes. Introduced into Seinfeld after the pilot, reputedly because executives felt the setup was too male-centric, or she instantly became one of an ensemble,not just the token chick. The prior relationship between Elaine and Jerry is quickly dealt with so they can salvage on with being friends and Louis-Dreyfus can salvage on with being just another one of the gang, prone to the same social disgraces and troubles as her male co-stars.
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Source: theguardian.com