Julia Louis-Dreyfus is nestled into a
corner booth at the San Ysidro Ranch on a
gloomy late-spring day, a few weeks after
Ve e p’s seven-season flambéing of U.S.
politics has come to its ash-black finale.
Airpods in and curly brown hair pinned to
the nape of her neck, she’s 3,000 physical
and psychological miles away from Selina
Meyer, the soulless DC swamp creature
she played on the HBO series. You might
even mistake her as one of the rarefied
women who can while away a Monday
afternoon lunching at one of the finest
establishments in all of California.
“I said to my husband, I’m taking July
and August off, and he kind of laughed,”
she says. “I’m going to try to stick to it,”
she continues, then pauses. “I’m looking
for a new psychiatrist as we speak.”
Louis-Dreyfus has won the Emmy for
outstanding lead actress in a comedy
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