Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Why I told Warner Bros. bullies to ‘f–k off’

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Podcrushed” podcast. “I felt very small. Because I was.”The “Veep” star revealed that around the same time she was sent the scripts for “The Seinfeld Chronicles” by Larry David — otherwise known as the pilot for Jerry Seinfeld’s long-running sitcom — she had a development deal with Warner Bros.

that had “a creative out based on the material that was being developed.”That development deal ended up not working out, and Louis-Dreyfus “did bow out,” but she claimed that the studio threatened to sue her because they mistakenly thought that she violated the agreement.At the time, she wasn’t quite yet the star that she became post-“Seinfeld” — so she felt intimidated by the studio’s threats.“I had representatives who were saying to me, ‘You better just give them their money back.

Give them their money back.’ You know?” she shared. “And I said, ‘But if I give them the development money back, won’t that imply that I did something dishonest?

That I broke the contract?’ And they were like, ‘Just do it, just to get rid of the problem.'”Louis-Dreyfus wasn’t comfortable listening to her reps when she knew she did nothing wrong, so she called up “Day by Day” creator Gary Goldberg for advice.“I called [Gary Goldberg] because it didn’t sit well with me,” she said. “He was a huge force at NBC and in television specifically, and I called him and told him this story.”She continued, “He said, ‘You know what?