Julia Louis-Dreyfus demanded more dialogue on ‘Seinfeld’
Seinfeld.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.