Because the life-imitates-art second when Joe Biden introduced he was stepping down from the 2024 presidential election and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to switch him, comparisons have been drawn between Harris and fictional VP turned president Selina Meyer of HBO’s Veep.
After seven seasons of taking part in the character—and night time one of many 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference—Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus dropped by The Late Present With Stephen Colbert to weigh in on her present’s new resonance. Stephen Colbert, who was internet hosting dwell from Chicago post-DNC, introduced up the truth that Veep viewership has soared by 350% since Harris turned the nominee. “It’s an incredible factor, I believe?” stated Louis-Dreyfus. Nonetheless, she declared that Meyer and Harris don’t even have a lot in widespread.
“Let me clarify to you: On Veep, I performed a narcissistic, megalomaniac sociopath, and that isn’t Kamala Harris,” stated Louis-Dreyfus. “It is likely to be one other candidate within the race.”
When requested which Veep character reminded the star most of Donald Trump’s working mate, JD Vance, she replied, “That may be Jonah Ryan,” referring to Meyer’s White Home liaison, performed by Timothy Simons, who charts an eerie rise by means of the political sphere throughout the present’s run. “I’m certain he’s made like to many couches,” Louis-Dreyfus joked, leaning into the persistent (if made-up and denied) rumor that Vance as soon as had intercourse with a settee.
Colbert additionally pressed Louis-Dreyfus for her favourite scene used to handle the challenges confronted by girls in politics. She chosen a second that includes Meyer and her director of communications turned White Home press secretary, Mike McLintock, performed by Matt Walsh. “He got here to me with this speech, and the speech started ‘as a girl.’ And I checked out him and I stated, ‘To start with, as a girl, I’m not gonna begin a speech with ‘as a girl,’ as a result of I can’t establish as a girl,” Louis-Dreyfus recalled. “Males hate that and girls who hate girls hate that, which is most girls.”
Following the present’s cultural resurgence, Veep showrunner David Mandel advised Self-importance Truthful that he additionally refuted most of the so-called similarities between Meyer and Harris. “I perceive that folks all around the web are dying to make the narrative someway that Kamala is Selina. I personally select to not settle for it,” he stated. “It’s too simplistic, and I don’t assume they’re doing it in a enjoyable manner. I believe they’re doing it to try to someway make her appear lower than, and I don’t get pleasure from it.” The truth is, he argued that Mike Pence made a way more viable Veep proxy. “There’s nothing extra Selina Meyer than her nearly getting hanged by President Hughes’s followers on January 6,” he stated. “There’s your final Veep storyline!”
Louis-Dreyfus just lately advised The Sunday Times that she plans to be “additional concerned” within the vice chairman’s presidential marketing campaign, beginning with an look on the Democratic Nationwide Conference this week. On Wednesday, August 21, she’ll host a daytime panel that includes eight of the nation’s Democratic girls governors: Arizona’s Katie Hobbs, Kansas’s Laura Kelly, Maine’s Janet Mills, Massachusetts’s Maura Healey, Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham, New York’s Kathy Hochul, and Oregon’s Tina Kotek.
