Julia Louis-Dreyfus Opens Up About Veep's Final Season, Her '90s Style Regrets, And More

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is preparing to usher in Veep's upcoming seventh and final season, as Selina Meyer — her "wretched," unobserved and "very undeveloped person, emotionally" character — prepares to run for President of the United States (again). In the latest episode of "The Big Picture," Louis-Dreyfus sits down with MTV News correspondent Josh Horowitz to mirror on the hit HBO series and everything it took to get there.


"I have to mention that we poured our hearts and souls into this final season, so it has good meaning to the complete sort as a result. And the journey that all of those characters take, not just Selina Meyer nevertheless each person through to the final episode is pretty intense," Louis-Dreyfus mentioned, supplying not one tease of what those journeys will look like, other than the ever-cryptic (and, quite frankly, totally expected), "Selina is at her most Selina."


But unlike her character, Louis-Dreyfus, who executive produces the show, enforces a strict "no assholes rule" on set, which she implemented immediately after experiencing both wonderful and not-so-excellent work spaces as she worked her way up the comedy ladder from Chicago's esteemed Second City, to SNL, to Seinfeld, and beyond.


That's piece of the reason the show works so — along with, probably, the reason fans of the show think the real Louis-Dreyfus could make a very capable candidate should she ever determine to run for office. Yet it's not what I do," she mentioned. "Listen, I'm not saying that I could be bad at it necessarily, yet I am saying that I really like to perform and as a character and I don't aspire to enter that fray. That's not my skill set." Aptly, Louis-Dreyfus added, "You don't have to run for office to impact the world."


And if anyone should know that, it's the woman who played Elaine Benes, an exemplar of '90s street-style — even if photographs from the time do make her cringe. "My look. I could perish from that. With that hair and those outfits nevertheless anyway, whichever she hurriedly moved past, mortified by the thought that the looks are actually quite trendy at the moment.


The legacy of Elaine still lives on in Louis-Dreyfus's day-to-day life, be it through style notes or her dance skills. "I'm keenly aware that if there's a dance floor, folks are watching to be able to see if I can actually dance and yes, I can," she clarified.


However as we enter the final chapters of the story that will become Selena's legacy, Louis-Dreyfus has one request: "I want folks to look back at her and laugh. At her. I would like them to laugh at her."


For more from Louis-Dreyfus, watch the complete interview above. Veep returns to HBO for its final season Sunday, March 31.