Julia Louis-Dreyfus Wins Again

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Julia Louis-Dreyfus recently won her sixth consecutive Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy for the role of Selina Meyer, the hapless Vice-President turned President, in HBO’s “Veep.” The show has been on for six seasons so her record is perfect. In 2016, Louis-Dreyfus spoke with David Remnick as the Presidential race was growing more outrageous by the day, and “Veep,” which began as a satire of Washington, had come to seem like “a somber documentary” about the political process. They also spoke about Louis-Dreyfus’s early days on “Saturday Night Live,” and her fight to be taken seriously as a woman in Hollywood. Plus, another, earlier fight for women’s rights: the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs is the subject of the new film starring Emma Stone and Steve Carrell called “Battle of the Sexes.” The composer Nicholas Britell wrote the score, and talks with The New Yorker editor Henry Finder about how a piano concerto is like a tennis match.

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0:00.0	This is a real trait to bond.
0:03.0	The One World Observatory is straight of the block for West Boulevard and makes that right.
0:09.0	They didn't break that, but they have pretty good access to those people.
0:15.0	She herself consciously mocked that lineage.
0:18.0	So that's happening.
0:20.0	It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts. that lineage. So that's happening.
0:23.7	It seems like an incredible story here on many fronts.
0:31.9	From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:35.0	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:38.0	If you caught the broadcast of the Emmys last week,
0:48.4	you were probably not terribly surprised by this. And the Emmy goes to Julie Louis Dreyfus.
0:48.8	What?
0:57.5	Julia Louis Dreyfus has won the award for best leading actress in a comedy six times,
1:00.3	the most Emmy's ever given for one role.
1:04.5	And the show, Veep is only six seasons old, so she's six for six.
1:13.2	She plays Selena Meyer, a terrible hack of a vice president who finds herself suddenly in charge of the United States of America.
1:19.0	I spoke with Julia Louis Dreyfus in March of last year as an even more unlikely election,
1:22.5	a real one, was just beginning to take shape.
1:30.0	So I was just in a meeting with one of our political correspondents. We were talking about how to cover this insane election.
1:30.5	Yeah.
1:36.8	And I said, by the way, I'm going to go interview in about a half an hour, Julie Louis Dreyfus, and she's amazing.
1:38.6	And he got all excited.
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