Julia Louis-Dreyfus demanded more dialogue on ‘Seinfeld’
nme.comSeinfeld.The actress became a comedy icon for playing Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom. However, she wasn’t entirely fulfilled by the role when the show first aired in 1988, and subsequently asked co-creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld to give her character more to do.“Well, I never really approached it from the perspective of my gender, per se.
I wanted to just play ball with everybody,” Louis-Dreyfus told The Daily Beast.“I’m not going to lie, in the beginning, I didn’t always have a lot to do in certain episodes.
And I would go to Larry and Jerry multiple times and say, ‘Hey, you guys, write me more, I need to be in this show more.’ That’s what I just kept doing.
And they did.”She added: “But you see, they didn’t write for me as a woman. They just wrote for me, for this character, as opposed to this gender, which I think is instructive in a lot of ways from a writing point of view.”Louis-Dreyfus earned seven consecutive Emmy nominations for her performances on the show, picking up the award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series at the 1996 ceremony.In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, she said it was hard to say goodbye to the show.“I think any time a project ends, it’s gutting for me,” Louis-Dreyfus said. “And that’s true of movies and TV shows.
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