Julia Louis-Dreyfus Compares Her ‘Veep’ Character To Trump: “Not A Kamala Harris Type”
deadline.comJulia Louis-Dreyfus is willing to admit her Veep character bears some similarities to a real-life presidential nominee. Amid the show’s election year resurgence, the Golden Globe winner reasoned that her morally bankrupt politician character Selina Meyer is more like Donald Trump than his opponent Kamala Harris. “In Veep, I play a very unhappy vice president, and at a certain point in a run of the show, I have the opportunity to run for president,” she explained on MSNBC. “Now, I do want to say one thing about the character I play on Veep.
I do want to say I play a very, shall we say, almost narcissistic, sociopathic, mega-maniacal type of person,” added Louis-Dreyfus. “I am not a Kamala Harris type.
I am possibly much more like someone from the other party whose name I shall not even utter.” She starred as Vice President (and eventually President) Meyer in the satirical HBO series created by Armando Iannucci, which ran for seven seasons from 2012 to 2019.
The actress won nine Emmy Awards as star and producer of the show. Louis-Dreyfus’ interview came ahead of her Veep reunion on Sunday for a table read benefitting the Democratic Party of Wisconsin as Harris campaigns in the battleground state.
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