![]() It’s a brief stop, though, and she soon bolts off forĪnother peak, the crisp dirt crunching under her sneakers. Neighborhood of mostly gleaming white multimillion-dollar homes set like teeth Now, pausing for a moment to take in the Pacific Ocean, Century City and her I don’t ask them, because I don’t need that bullshit on top of how I’m feeling.” Today, she even canceled an appointment so that she had enough time to put together notes on two new Veep episodes that Armando Iannucci, the show’s creator, sent for her perusal from London, and she’ll spend much of the day in her home office, guzzling down coffee while she types up an e-mail of suggestions for him. “I’m a perfectionist in my work,” she says. Although she has the most interesting acting role of her career right now – the narcissistic, thwarted vice president of the United States on HBO’s political satire Veep – it’s been almost 25 years since she first played Jerry Seinfeld’s nervy sidekick Elaine Benes on his TV show. Louis-Dreyfus’ professional life, however, is a lot more hectic than the easy California dream of her home life. She’s a people-pleaser, this one, and several times, as we proceed on the trail, while she points out some of the local oddities, like an oak tree with two trunks, which has a name she can’t recall – “I learned it two days ago, and now I can’t remember it there endeth the lesson” – she mentions that we should have gone for this hike in Will Rogers State Historic Park instead of this canyon because the ranch there, where Rogers used to live with his polo ponies, is so beautiful. Though curse words often issue forth from Louis-Dreyfus’ mouth, this energetic 53-year-old is as discreet and demure as can be. I’d love to do a full marathon, but now I worry about blowing out things, and I don’t want to be fucked forever as a result.” ![]() “I love exercising,” she says, tossing a seven-buck parking fee in a brown national park requisition box and zipping up a black Nike windbreaker. a sadistic fitness class involving cardio and weights or, on occasion, a two- to four-mile run. This is the morning ritual Louis-Dreyfus prefers: a stout hike after rising from bed around 6 a.m. Standing barely five-feet-three and mostly made of muscle mass, with wowee brown eyes, a heart-shaped face and energy as coiled as her hair, it’s hard to believe she’s in her mid-fifties. ![]() ![]() ‘Are you sure about this? Are you sure you’re not ruining Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s career?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ” But it all worked out that year Louis-Dreyfus won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.Julia Louis-Dreyfus pulls up to the mouth of the Temescal Canyon hiking trail in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles in her gray Tesla, then jumps out in a flurry. Feresten began having doubts in rehearsal: “ Jennifer Crittenden pulled me aside after Julia did the dance for the first time. Show writer Spike Feresten later told The Huffington Post that Seinfeld creator Larry David was not a fan of the eighth season episode “The Little Kicks,” in which Elaine dances he only got approval on the story line after David left. Seinfeld writers thought Elaine’s dance moves might kill Louis-Dreyfus’s career. Here, in honor of her birthday, five other things you may not have known about Julia Louis-Dreyfus.ġ. ![]() You may think you know her well, after seeing her on your living room TV screen for decades, but did you know that the award-winning actress got her first taste of comedy at age 3? It was midway through a dance class, when a wee Louis-Dreyfus forgot the steps to her routine and was delighted to find that it made people laugh: “Of course, my mother was mortified, but I thought it was real good! And I stuck with that choreography for the rest of the class,” she once told a reporter. This week, Julia Louis-Dreyfus celebrated her 56th birthday. ![]()
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