Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whose Veep character Vice-President Selina Meyer has been likened by many to the Democrats’ nominee for the White Home, Kamala Harris, has dropped a giant trace she shall be attending this month’s Democratic Nationwide Conference in Chicago in assist of Harris.
Louis-Dreyfus advised The Instances of London: “I most likely shall be, sure,” including that she plans to be “extra-involved” in Harris’s marketing campaign to beat Donald Trump to workplace.
Veep, primarily based on a fictional vice-president who results in the highest chair and the recipient of 17 Emmy Awards together with six for Louis-Dreyfus within the title position, completed in 2019 however viewership of the HBO comedy has gone via the ceiling since Harris’s run was introduced. Creator Armando Iannucci mentioned lately that Meyer was not in any approach modelled on Harris, however admitted comparisons between the 2 can be inevitable.
Louis-Dreyfus mentioned the present performed into the truth that feminine candidates are at all times extra scrutinished than their male friends. She advised The Instances: “That’s the actuality and we performed into it and used it to our comedic benefit. There’s an episode during which a personality suggests Selina open a speech with ‘As a lady’ and she or he mentioned, ‘I can’t establish as a lady! Folks can’t know that! Males hate that and ladies who hate ladies hate that, which I consider is most ladies.’ So we used that for lots of fodder.”
