Julia Louis-Dreyfus Says ‘Veep’s Selina Meyer Is Not Like Kamala Harris; Compares JD Vance To Jonah Ryan
deadline.comJulia Louis-Dreyfus is shutting down the comparisons between Vice President Kamala Harris and her fictional Veep character, Selina Meyer.
In a new interview, the star of the HBO comedy series explained why Selina Meyer is not like the Democratic Presidential nominee despite sharing a similar trajectory. “People might need reminding that Selina Meyer and Kamala Harris are not alike,” Louis-Dreyfus told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. “On Veep, I played a narcissistic, like, megalomaniac sociopath, and that is not Kamala Harris.
It might be another candidate in the race…” Colbert asked Louis-Dreyfus if she could assign a character that resembled Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance, which one it would be, and she said, “That would be Jonah Ryan.” In the Veep series, Timothy Simons plays Jonah Ryan, a power-hungry White House aide who eventually becomes the Vice President of the U.S.
and is subsequently impeached. RELATED: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Will Be “Extra-Involved” In Kamala Harris Campaign, Including DNC Appearance Colbert made reference to the unfounded Vance and couch rumors asking, “Can you imagine Jonah being sexually attracted to an ottoman, or something like that?” Louis-Dreyfus replied, “I think you mean a couch.
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