Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus has insisted her character on hit HBO TV show Veep is nothing like Vice President Kamala Harris.
In the show, the actress, 63, plays self-absorbed and ambitious politician Selina Meyer, the vice president, who later becomes president of the United States.
Following the news that President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, fans re-circulated a hilarious clip from the political satire comedy in which Louis-Dreyfus’ character reacts to a similar situation.
However, the Seinfeld alum said her mistake-prone Veep character is not based on the real-life first female vice president.
“I play a very, let’s say, almost narcissistic, sociopathic, mega, manic type of person. I’m not a Kamala Harris type,” Louis-Dreyfus said. MSNBC‘s Ari Melber on Friday.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus insisted that her character Veep, HBO’s hit television show, is nothing like Vice President Kamala Harris.
The award-winning actress told MSNBC’s Ari Melber that her Veep character is more like “someone on the other side.”
Veep aired on HBO for seven seasons between 2012 and 2019, before Harris was elected vice president.
“Possibly I look a lot more like someone from the other party whose name I won’t even pronounce.”
The show aired on HBO for seven seasons between 2012 and 2019, prior to Harris’ tenure as vice president.
The fan-favorite clip that went viral after Harris was endorsed for president shows the surprised reactions of Louis-Dreyfus’ character’s team when she lets them know she’s running for president.
‘I’m not leaving. POTUS leaves. He will not run for a second term. I’m going to run. I’m going to run for president!’ she tells them excitedly.
“I didn’t see that coming,” one person responds. ‘Leader Meyer, Team Veep on fire!’ another jokes.
‘Let’s go to the fucking moon!’ someone else on his team declares, while another team member adds, “I was this close to living on my boat.”
However, the award-winning actress insisted that Harris has nothing in common with her character.
“I played a character who was a woman but also hated being a woman and didn’t want to define herself as a woman because she thought it wouldn’t be an advantage,” Louis-Dreyfus said.
In the show, the actress, 63, plays self-absorbed and ambitious politician Selina Meyer, the vice president, who later becomes president of the United States.
In 2020, Louis-Dreyfus congratulated Harris by tweeting that the idea of a ‘Madam Vice President’ is no longer fictional.
‘She didn’t want to draw attention to that fact. In other words, we were simply turning it around and turning it back on itself.’
The cast of Veep reunited Sunday for a table read to benefit the Wisconsin Democratic Party, reported Deadline.
Louis-Dreyfus hosted a panel at this year’s Democratic National Convention and previously supported the Biden-Harris administration.
She hosted Biden’s largely virtual 2020 convention amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2020, Louis-Dreyfus congratulated Harris by tweeting that the idea of a “Madam Vice President” is “no longer fictional.” He also congratulated Biden at the time.