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The environmentalist,
iconic funnywoman, and star of Pixar’s
Onward pauses to look backward
LOUIS-DREYFUS
JULIA
@OfficialJLD
- MOST GRACIOUS RESPONSE TO REJECTION/
CAREER SETBACK: I have suffered no setbacks.
- LEAST GRACIOUS RESPONSE TO REJECTION/
CAREER SETBACK: Seriously, no setbacks.
- THE THREE QUALITIES THAT GOT ME
WHERE I AM TODAY: Grit, steely nerves,
and the ability to fool myself into thinking I have had
no setbacks.
- MOMENT I FELT I MADE IT: Possibly sometime
next week.
- MOST AGONIZING CAREER DECISION I’VE
EVER MADE: To give up institutional finance for love.
- KIND OF WORK I’D DO FOR FREE: Prostitution.
- CHANGE I’D LIKE TO SEE IN MY INDUSTRY:
That the industry would give me more jobs.
- HOW DID YOU MAKE YOUR FIRST DOLLAR?
Followed the directions in Counterfeiting for Dummies.
- LAST THING I BINGE-WATCHED: Chernobyl
[on HBO].
- BOOK THAT LEFT A LASTING IMPRESSION
ON ME: Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys.
- SONG THAT ALWAYS MAKES ME CRY: “Talk,”
by Henry Hall.
- MOVIE WITH THE GREATEST ENDING: Life Is
Beautiful.
- SONG I’D WANT PLAYED AT MY FUNERAL:
“Bee-Bop-a-Lula,” but played really, really slow.
- FIRST ALBUM I BOUGHT: More of the Monkees.
- IF I COULD LIVE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY,
IT WOULD BE: Outside of the U.S., obviously.
- ONE THING I’M EPICALLY BAD AT:
Computational approaches to partial differential
equations.
- SOMETHING BETTER IN THEORY THAN IN
PRACTICE: Capitalism, and also hot yoga.
- STORE I CAN’T LEAVE WITHOUT BUYING
SOMETHING: Ye Olde Sexxe Shoppe.
- THE THREE QUALITIES I THOUGHT I
WANTED IN A PARTNER: A sense of humor, a moral
compass, and immense, overwhelming wealth.
- ADVICE TO A WOMAN WITH A BROKEN
HEART: Suck it up.
- RELATIONSHIP ADVICE TO MY YOUNGER
SELF: Wear sunscreen. This has nothing to do with
relationships, but just do it.
- THE CRAZIEST THING I DID FOR LOVE:
I violently overthrew a small country’s government.
- WHAT MY HIGH SCHOOL BOYFRIEND
WOULD SAY ABOUT ME: “She was, alas, far too
good to be true.” (And then he jumps off a roof.) RA
MONA^ROSALES/AUGUST