Julia Louis-Dreyfus says Kamala Harris isn't like her “Veep” character: 'I played a narcissistic, megalomaniac sociopath'
But the actress teased her Selina Meyer character might be like "another candidate in the race."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus may have played a female Vice-President-turned-President on Veep, but that’s about where her character and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' similarities end.
The actress clarified that the Vice President and her character, Selina Meyer, couldn’t be more different from one another while visiting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Monday.
“Let me explain to you: On Veep, I played a narcissistic, megalomaniac sociopath, and that is not Kamala Harris,” Louis-Dreyfus declared. Although, she teased, “It might be another candidate in the race.”
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Kamala HarrisShe also didn’t hesitate to reveal which character from the show she thought was most like Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance. “That would be Jonah Ryan,” Louis-Dreyfus replied, a nod to Timothy Simons’ character who once served as Meyer’s White House liaison. Referencing the viral rumor that Vance had sex with a couch, she jokingly added that she's "sure [Jonah's] made love to many couches.”
Host Stephen Colbert then asked if there was a moment within the series that perfectly encapsulated “the harsh treatment” that women often face in politics. In response, Louis-Dreyfus recalled a scene in which Matt Walsh’s character Mike McClintock, working as Meyers’ press secretary at the time, wrote a speech for her that began with “as a woman.”
“I looked at him and I said, ‘First of all, as a woman, I’m not going to start a speech with as a woman, because I can’t identify as a woman,’” she said. “Men hate that and women who hate women hate that, which is most women.”
Veep has had a major resurgence in popularity in the weeks since President Joe Biden announced that he would not be seeking reelection and endorsed Vice President Harris. So much so, in fact, that the first season of the HBO comedy saw over a 350% increase in viewership last month.
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Speaking with Entertainment Weekly at Comic Con, Louis-Dreyfus called the show's revival a “wild thing to witness.” She added, "I'm delighted. I'm happy people are getting a kick out of it. And I know that Kamala Harris is — big time."
Louis-Dreyfus isn't the only one who has acknowledged the Veep connection between Harris and Meyer. However, series showrunner David Mandel similarly told The Hollywood Reporter that he believed Trump was "the Selina-est candidate" by a longshot.
"Vain, worried about his looks, has a ridiculously better relationship with his body people than his own children, petty, vindictive, worries about his own money, doesn’t believe what he says, says whatever to get elected," he noted. "Even Selina supported a woman’s right to chose — on that, she held firm. Somewhere in there, she had a moral compass … or some kind of something. Maybe a gyroscope."
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