![]() Like Holofcener when she first met Louis-Dreyfus, it’s hard to discern if the symmetry is real or our projection. In Louis-Dreyfus’ real life there is a long and happy marriage to actor and filmmaker Brad Hall, and two sons, Henry and Charlie. With a role that lives so deeply in the everyday – about a successful woman in a creative field, with a happy marriage and children – it’s easy to think the lines are blurring. So, she comes into this relationship with that, she relies on this man, her husband, for all sorts of affirmations, including her worth as a writer.” She’s fragile, she’s sensitive, she has a background where the support that she grew up with was, shall we say, at best fleeting and not strong support by any means. “She actually doesn’t know if she can stay with him and I understand that, I get it. So, this rather bold lie on his part rocks her world in the way an infidelity would rock her world. “They have had this incredibly successful marriage for decades, she adores her husband and respects him beyond the beyond. “I’ve been using the word infidelity, and I like that you characterise it as intellectual infidelity,” Louis-Dreyfus says. ![]() It is a betrayal in thought only, but it cuts deep. Not unfaithfulness to the marriage in the traditional sense of the phrase, but rather a gap created when Don’s admission is caught by Beth, whose faith in herself begins to disintegrate rapidly. Julia Louis-Dreyfus (left) and director Nicole Holofcener on the set of You Hurt My Feelings, which is the second film they have made together.Īt the heart of the story of You Hurt My Feelings is the notion of intellectual infidelity. ![]() But there is a tenderness that is in place. And I don’t mean to imply that a male director wouldn’t understand the goal. And you’re doing it hopefully with somebody who understands what the goal is. You are delving into areas that are private. “There is an intimacy between actor and director it’s personal. (Helpfully, I had dropped the expletive as we began our conversation.) But specific to Nicole, there is, to quote you, much less bullshit. And I would say this of every female director I’ve worked with, not just Nicole. “It is an enormous relief to have a female director. “I’m happy to get into the gender of it,” Louis-Dreyfus says. That Holofcener is a woman is significant. Scott described as “line for line, scene for scene, one of the best-written American film comedies in recent memory.”Ī decade later the pair are collaborating for a second time, on the film You Hurt My Feelings, a more complex study of a happy marriage which nearly skids off the rails when author Beth (Louis-Dreyfus) overhears her unflinchingly supportive husband Don (Tobias Menzies) confess that he dislikes the manuscript for her new book. From that lunch sprang the film Enough Said, a gentle comedy about a blossoming romance between Eva (Louis-Dreyfus) and Albert (James Gandolfini, another actor who played a signature role, that of Tony Soprano in The Sopranos), which The New York Times’ A. Tobias Menzies and Julia Louis-Dreyfus play a husband and wife whose marriage is spinning in You Hurt My Feelings.Īnd they did. You get past it once they get to know me.” You always get past it, particularly if it’s somebody I’m going to be working with. It’s almost like, I don’t know what the other is. “It’s been going on now for so many years that it’s familiar to me. “Honestly, I’m so used to people having that kind of reaction, do you know what I mean?” Louis-Dreyfus says. But for Louis-Dreyfus, whose TV credits include Seinfeld and the razor-sharp political satire Veep, it’s not an unfamiliar reaction: people expecting to meet klutzy Elaine or, more recently, Veep’s inept, egotistical Selina Meyer. When the pair finally sat down to lunch, the reality that actor and character were not one and the same immediately became clear. “It’s been going on for years,” she says. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is used to people thinking she’s the klutzy Elaine or the egotistical Selina Meyer. Prior to that meeting, Holofcener has said, she had almost obsessively thought of the film and television actor as Elaine Benes, her character from the iconic TV sitcom Seinfeld. Julia Louis-Dreyfus met director Nicole Holofcener more than a decade ago, at a lunch set up by their agents, a sort of Hollywood-style platonic speed date. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size
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