How is Julia Louis Dreyfus so nice and normal?

Which of her Veep is she friends with?

How do you know she's nice and normal, OP? Actors are "on" when they're talking to people like Letterman and Seinfeld. I bet she would be disgusted by your kiss-ass assumption. I say that as a big veep fan.

Having a billion dollars tends to even out the edges.

It's called ACTING, OP.

She’s big buddies with Tony Hale, who played Gary, she told Letterman.

Yes, it's Tony Hale. She says he is one of her best friends.

PR troll, go away.

The bitch already has more money than God.

She was born rich and then double-dipped.

Léopold Louis-Dreyfus's great-grandson, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, was chairman of Louis Dreyfus Energy Services, a subsidiary of the group involved in crude-oil trading, gas investments and infrastructure. Gérard is also the father of American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the Emmy-winning star of Seinfeld and Veep. Another branch of the dynasty, based in Paris, was headed by Robert Louis-Dreyfus (who was also the CEO of Adidas) until his death in 2009. It is currently overseen by his widow, Russian-born Margarita Bogdanova Louis-Dreyfus.[11] A third branch of the family's business is headed by Philippe Louis-Dreyfus (born 1945) and is concerned primarily with offshore industrial activities and freight shipping operations.[12]

[quote] currently overseen by his widow, Russian-born Margarita Bogdanova Louis-Dreyfus.

I bet Julia has an opinion of her.

Funny she made her bank in part by playing in a nasty little show. I loathed Seinfeld, insult humor and Jerry's voice grating its way into our living rooms. No thank you.

Not to mention his clothes.

R11 = Patricia Heaton

Seinfeld was a hilarious show while Larry David was on board.

Everybody Loves Raymond was equally annoying.

She’s great in Veep.

Ah yes, you can depend on DL posters ripping into a talented and nice person. Goes a long way toward helping one understand how conspiracy theories get traction. A lot of people are just the opposite of JLD: barking mad and seriously unintelligent.

Stars! They're just like us!

[quote] Stars! They're just like us!

The point of OP was exactly the opposite: that JLD is quite surprisingly the exception to stars not being like us.

She’s not. You should listen to when she called up Howard Stern. No sense of humor whatsoever. She’s very full of herself.

[quote]I loathed Seinfeld, insult humor

Oh, god. Fuck off, Mary pansy ass.

She was funny in the interview with Seinfeld—funny in the sense that she kind of told him he is an asshole in various ways throughout.

She told him that he has problems with social interactions. She seemed serious and he seemed offended and said "I do not."

She asked, "Do you remember when I was pregnant, and you said, 'Hey, why don't we just make Elaine fat this season?' And I burst into tears?'"

Then she said she regretted not going with that scenario because it would have been funny, and he told her she has grown as a comedian and it's to her credit that she can understand she was wrong.

Then he called his wife so Julia could ask questions about shopping on Poshmark and while talking to her, she said "Thank you for making Jerry more of a human being."

He seems like a serious dick.

She's acting, you dolts. She comes from more generations of entitlement than the Bush family.

Do you think all mega-wealthy people think and behave like the Trumps?

Is it possible any of them are decent?

I knew someone years ago from the Rockefeller family who led a charmed life and pursued allll of their interests without limits, but they seemed like an incredibly nice person. Rather eccentric in some ways, but personalitywise and attitudinally the opposite of a Trump.

🤔

Please don't put your nasty saggy ass issues on me, R21. It wasn't a clever show, sorry to disabuse you of any notions.

An exception doesn't prove a rule, R24. These people wouldn't give up any of their comfort and privilege for you. And don't tell me about the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation to Eliminate Disease and get Tax Breaks.

One thing that is certainly in her favour is that if she's all that rich and entitled she didn't need to work her ass off all those years as a lead character in two separate comedy shows. But she chose to, she seemed always on point in said shows, and I've never heard a word about her being less than professional about it.

She probably had enough money just from Seinfeld never to have to work again. (Larry David certainly did.)

I love the Marc Maron interview with her. She does seem really earthy and tuned in to regular everyday shit. In the interview, she got all wistful talking about when NYC was affordable and how sad that it isnt anymore. I know, cry me a river rich lady - but she sorta contextualized it as NYC being a more interesting place when all sorts of random people could afford to just show up there. It felt sincere.

IDK. I really want to believe she is who she sounds like. I do think it's interesting that she's been with her husband FOREVER.

"She probably had enough money just from Seinfeld never to have to work again." Sure but all the actors except for Seinfeld were cut from royalties. Which is HUGE. The Friends actors make about $20 million a year from their royalties.

She's really not a billionaire heiress ("billionairess?"). Her estranged father was considerably wealthy, but she wasn't raised around him, and he left almost all of his fortune to other causes and relatives. Her stepfather, who raised her, was modestly wealthy in his own right. He was the dean of a medical school, and was able to afford private schooling for Julia and her sisters - They actually went to Holton Arms, the same school from the Brett Kavanaugh scandal.

She has her own money, and plenty of it. But she chafes at being called an heiress to a billion-dollar fortune. She says it was never that much money, and she was never intended to inherit it.

She shops on Poshmark? Really? I find that intriguing, for some reason.

She has a beautiful head of hair. It's all naturally wavy and bouncy and glossy. Gorgeous.

Tony Hale?! He's his own dude. I saw an interview he did where he spoke of his anxiety issue, his asthma, and his mindfulness counseling. He's a Christian but I don't see how he could be conservative and do the kind of comedy he does, man came across as a hippie in the interview I saw if anything.

I imagine it must be nice to be well off and try your best in your field without ever having to worry about your housing and such. Then you hit paydirt but stay married to the same fellow who knew you when the whole time and survive a bout with cancer thus far. She might just so happen to be really fucking grateful for things is how I see it.

Her politics are just as good as her hair.

Not everybody gets corrupted.

If she had to work for a living she'd never have been able to pursue acting. Just like Chevy Chase and that girl from the Office and whoever else. Parasites, there should be a special tax code for these cases. Poor little Julia only got the finest private education possible.

Jackie on Assistance went to the same school.

If anything, DL stands as a shining example of the power of celebrity to warp minds and create loathsome stans.

R34 Bitter much?

Yes, I am. Do you like being exploited for the profit of others?

R38 Knock it off, twatsie.

How does an ACTRESS exploit other people or this planet for profit? She does goofy dances and reads other people's words into a camera. The bitch ain't a coal executive.

An “Elaine Gets Fat” storyline would have been hilarious, and JLD would have slayed. Jerry was right.

Eat the rich and shit them out on R39.

I watched her interview with Letterman and I was surprised she didn’t mention The New Adventures of Old Christine. I thought it was one of the funniest shows.

Was her family the Dreyfus or the Dreyfus Affair?

of* the Dreyfus affair.

Have Twitter commies invaded the DL? What does someone’s level of wealth have to do with their talent or personality? The whole “noble poor, evil rich” nonsense is 10th grade stuff.

Who knows what she's really like. She never has to do housework, cleaning, etc., all of the things that keep you grounded.

Yet, some rich assholes try their best (during interviews) to seem likeable and down-to-earth and still come off like assholes.

Jerry Seinfeld seems like an asshole. Even if he had never struck gold, he would still be an asshole, IMO.

[quote]If she had to work for a living she'd never have been able to pursue acting. Just like Chevy Chase and that girl from the Office and whoever else. Parasites, there should be a special tax code for these cases. Poor little Julia only got the finest private education possible.

Oh, be quiet you little peasant.

Yeah, that's her name. She stinks. I'd be bubbly too if I had never had any responsibilities.

I don't get it. Eventually a pregnant woman looks different from a fat woman. Though there is a point where you're not sure.

A guy I knew in high school became very good friends with her future husband at Northwestern. She and he were dating there. She was a couple of years younger and left school because she got on SNL. He said she was a very nice person.

All of you touchy-feely aspirational "I might be rich one day too" people need to go eat poo.

"If she had to work for a living she'd never have been able to pursue acting. "

That's a silly comment. Seinfeld wasnt rich. Jason Alexander wasn't rich.

Lots of famous actors didnt grow up rich.

But lots of famous actors did. Also those cunts who grew up in LA born to producers, like the yoyo fatboy from Superbad. Privilege is fine, but do you have to suck them off too?

I have more respect for Markle.

R52 Leave my hairy chud of a brother alone!

A friend went to a theater camp with her way back when. She apparently was not a nice teen . All I got 🤷‍♂️

R55 They never are. It's best to avoid that span of time by any means necessary.

Most people aren't nice teens, that's why most people hate their high school experience.

She’s never wanted for anything or anybody.

That goes pretty far towards making for an easygoing personality.

I had nothing, had to beg for my Christmas presents and never got what I asked for. From the backseat of my parents car I routinely watched my uncles place their hands on the trunk of a police car, get frisked and handcuffed as my mother screamed at my father to stop the car and my father said “hell no.”

Got punched in the “kisser,” had my hair pulled & my neck yanked by my mother in front if classmates. Got chilblains standing out in the catholic school tarmac jokingly called a “playground” in zero degree weather.

Why did I grow up to be fearful, nervous, insecure, afraid of authority figures, mute before superiors (which was everyone)?

I dunno.

Have you seen her sons? Holy fuck they’re both hot.

R58 Maybe your mental illness is making everything about yourself.

A person doesn't have to be rich to be selfish!

It helps though.

Her son played basketball at Northwestern. He wasn’t a starter but they put him in for the final game. His parents were in the stands and they looked like they were going to burst with pride!

JLD and her husband are Northwestern alums and met there, I believe. From my experience with Northwestern alums (my sister and brother-in-law) everything is ALWAYS about Northwestern...FOREVER!

She was absolutely hilarious on Seinfeld.

You are a bunch of titty fraus, I swear to god.

R65 Julia dropped out of Northwestern to go be a Serious Actress. Brad graduated, though. 1980.

Julia is perfection

She is a good actress. She is not normal.

She's a 1-billion-dollar woman with two massively hot sons. I don't think she would give a shit about negative opinions of old, bitter, resentful, fat farts on DL, though.