Anyone can recite a joke, but for David Mandel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus possesses the ability to layer her performances, resulting in uniquely multifaceted characters. “There are 1,000 layers to Julia,” he told Variety. “At any given time, she’s playing 30 or 40 things in a scene, which allows her to be likable and unlikable, incompetent and very skilled.” Mandel noted that Louis-Dreyfus used this to great effect in “Veep,” where her Selina Meyer character was somehow cutting and cynical while, against all odds, remaining deeply sympathetic. “Especially during ‘Veep,'” Mandel continued, “we dug into the psyche of Selina Meyer and took her to some very dark places. She was able to play that tragedy while being f***ing hilarious.”
Louis-Dreyfus doesn’t only exhibit that skill in straight comedies. Director Nicole Holofcener, with whom Louis-Dreyfus collaborated on 2013’s “Enough Said” and the upcoming “You Hurt My Feelings,” remarked that the actress’ ability to play up multiple emotions at once makes her a chameleonic performer -– one that’s just at home in indie romantic comedies, as she is as the scenery-chewing Valentina Allegra de Fontaine in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” “She’s pretty much right for most things,” Holofcener said. “Don’t tell her I said this, but she can do funny and sad at the same time.”
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