Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep) is a national treasure with more primetime Emmys than any performer in the history of television.  Then there’s her latest decade in film: two collaborations with Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said and You Hurt My Feelings) along with a devastating turn in the heart-rending fairytale from A24, Tuesday. Her range is unparalleled, including in the role of host on her excellent, award-winning podcast, Wiser Than Me from Lemonada.

We sat with Julia as part of this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, where we discussed her powerful new film, Tuesday (6:33 ), her early performances in the basement of her childhood home (15:45 ), a formative high school yearbook quote (16:45 ), landing at SNL in the 1980s (22:06 ) with Larry David (24:56 ), the legacy of Seinfeld (28:42 ), and where she stands on the issue of “political correctness in comedy” (31:54 ).

On the back-half, a celebration of her uproarious turn as Selina Meyer on Veep (36:47 ), a life-changing diagnosis on the heels of her historic Emmy win (40:00 ), and the support she received from showrunner David Mandel (42:52 ) and President Biden (46:23 ). To close, we sit with the stakes of this upcoming election (50:40 ), words of wisdom from Jane Fonda (52:14 ), and the poem “Explanation” by Julia’s father, the late Gérard Louis-Dreyfus (54:00 ).

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