![]() ![]() It undid us in a big way that I wasn't prepared for – but also, I kind of was. "In our family's life the moment of his departure was pivotal. The elder of the two sons she has with Hall is currently at university. The thematic overlap is a coincidence, she insists, though it does pertain to her circumstances. She starred in another project recently about a similar subject to Enough Said – Picture Paris, a short film by her husband, Brad Hall, whom she met at university. But it takes a while to get used to her habit of stopping dead when she has finished a thought, with none of the space-filling blather to which some of us are prone. And I don't spot in her expression that devastating sourness with which Elaine could drop a man at 40 paces. At 52, she's still crisply pretty, but her hair is straight and dark, rather than high and frizzy. In Seinfeld's fourth series, Elaine was described as "a pretty woman, you know – kinda short, big wall of hair, face like a frying pan." Some of those descriptions need revising if they are to be applied to Louis-Dreyfus now. Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes with her co-stars in the masterful and abrasive sitcom Seinfeld. She's facing this possible vast landscape of loneliness and it's so paralysing that it fuels some bad decision-making and blurs lots of her boundary issues." But it's pertinent to this woman at this moment. "I suppose that kind of fear could be an issue at any age. She lounges on the mushroom-coloured sofa, propping herself up on one elbow in a loose white blouse patterned with flowers. "Well, it's about the fear of failure," explains Louis-Dreyfus in her suite. The movie feels rooted in the specific epiphanies of middle age. In her discombobulated state, she slides into a tentative romance with a hulking TV archivist (the late James Gandolfini). Louis-Dreyfus plays Eva, a massage therapist and single mother bracing herself for her daughter's imminent move to university. I smile too, recalling some of the lines that Louis-Dreyfus delivers in the new series of Veep: "Jolly Green Jizz-Face …" "Why don't you put on your running shoes and get to the fucking point?" "I'd rather set fire to my own vulva …" Lovely indeed.Įnough Said is gentler than Veep, but no less probing in its own way. "She's lovely," the publicist confirms, to appreciative cooing. For many millions of people (particularly in America, where the phrase "cultural phenomenon" is too measly to describe the show's reach) she will for ever be Elaine Benes, the most achingly desperate of the Seinfeld quartet. But don't underestimate the enduring voodoo power of her nine years on the most masterful and abrasive sitcom ever made: Seinfeld. And her new film, the warm, wise romantic comedy Enough Said, has only just opened. ![]() They might not have seen Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, the vice-president grappling with her own political impotence in Armando Iannucci's profane sitcom Veep, for which she has won a brace of Emmy bookends. ![]() Their jaws loosen noticeably and they take a single deferential step backwards. " Julia Louis-Dreyfus," the publicist smiles. "So – who ya got in there?" he asks conspiratorially. "So much activity!" the woman chuckles to me while her husband approaches the studio publicist who is loitering alongside us in the hallway. There have been a lot of comings and goings all day. The sweet, sixtysomething couple in pastel leisurewear are curious about the room next to theirs in this Santa Monica beachfront hotel. ![]()
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