MENZIES: (As Don) What are you talking about? LOUIS-DREYFUS: (As Beth) I heard you talking. MENZIES: (As Don) God, please, just stop. LOUIS-DREYFUS: (As Beth) I just - you know what? I just don't need you to lie to me anymore. LOUIS-DREYFUS: (As Beth) Take what out on you? No, actually, you know what? That's not very nice. Honestly, you don't have to keep trying to make me feel better, OK? - because I know it's super-tedious for you. LOUIS-DREYFUS: (As Beth) You know, it's OK, Don. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "YOU HURT MY FEELINGS") And you're just so wounded by this that you just can't hold it in. And so this is a scene where you and your husband, Don, played by Tobias Menzies, are having dinner with another couple. It's a complete game changer, and her world is turned upside down.ĭAVIES: That leads us to the clip I wanted to play, which is the moment right after she has overheard her husband, despite his assurances that she's doing wonderful work, that he really.ĭAVIES. LOUIS-DREYFUS: And so the wheels fall off the bus at that point. And then at a certain point in the movie, she overhears her husband telling someone else that in fact he hates the book or doesn't like it and is just really - he just can't keep reading draft after draft after draft of it. He tells her how much he loves it, et cetera, et cetera. Her husband is reassuring her what a marvelous book it is and has reassured her for quite a long time. She's been working on it for quite a while. They are really entwined with each other in a way that's seemingly quite healthy, right?Īnd so she's now just finished a pass at her next book, which is a work of fiction. And she relies on him for his input about her material as well as other aspects of her life. She's married to Don, played by the wonderful Tobias Menzies, who is a psychiatrist, a therapist. She has written a memoir some years back. LOUIS-DREYFUS: I play a woman who is a writer. ![]() These are films about relationships, often mature relationships.ĭAVIES: You want to describe your character in this new film, Beth? I - it speaks to me kind of on a deep level.ĭAVIES: Right. And yeah, I feel sort of joined at the hip with her creatively, and I love her voice as a writer. At the time, we felt as if, oh, wow, we've known each other all our lives. But it wasn't - it's not really that long ago. Although we met for the very first time on "Enough Said" - so, you know, a decade or so ago. Do you find a special connection with her work? You know, when people write about the two of you, they've used terms like two halves of the same person, cinematic alter egos. You worked on another film, "Enough Said," about 10 years ago. JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS: Thank you for having me.ĭAVIES: So let's talk about the new film. It's called "You Hurt My Feelings." Well, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, welcome back to FRESH AIR. And Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in a new movie written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. She's made films, won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and now hosts a new podcast called "Wiser Than Me," which we'll talk about in a bit. Louis-Dreyfus is one of the most award-winning actors in television history, earning 11 primetime Emmy Awards, eight for acting and three for producing, in addition to a Golden Globe Award and nine Screen Actors Guild Awards. Before "Seinfeld," she was a cast member at "Saturday Night Live." After "Seinfeld," she starred in five seasons of "The New Adventures Of Old Christine" and starred in and was executive producer of the acclaimed HBO series "Veep," in which she played vice president and eternal presidential aspirant Selina Meyer for seven seasons. My guest, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is probably best known for her work on the hit comedy series "Seinfeld." But her career has shown a staying power and range few performers can match.
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