Though she did not grow up with parents in the entertainment business — her father was a businessman in commodities, while her mother worked as a teacher — Julia Louis-Dreyfus wanted to be a performer from “the earliest age” — as in very early.
“I would even perform during nap time in nursery school, so I remember very vividly standing on top of my blanket and dancing and hoping people were going to be watching — and they were, by the way,” she recalled.
Louis-Dreyfus has had eyes on her ever since, and countless more are focused on the legendary actress this week as she’s just touched down in Cannes for the world premiere of her festival selection, Tangles, an animated film that she stars in and produced alongside Seth Rogen and wife Lauren Miller Rogen. Ahead of the world premiere on Thursday night, Louis-Dreyfus sat for an exclusive conversation Thursday morning with The Hollywood Reporter’s executive awards editor Scott Feinberg for his award-winning podcast, Awards Chatter, recorded live at Meta House in Cannes.
As is always the case on Awards Chatter, Louis-Dreyfus participated in a career-spanning chat that opened with talk of her time in nursery school and finished with the emotional reason she’s here in Cannes. Highlights in between included her time at Northwestern, becoming the youngest female talent ever to book a spot on Saturday Night Live, making history again with the iconic sitcom Seinfeld, cementing her legacy with beloved shows like The New Adventures of Old Christine and Veep followed by dramatic turns in Nicole Holofcener films and ultimately becoming a blockbuster star by way of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
