We Can Do Hard Things
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Why We All Lie & How Honest Can We Be? (Best Of)
12 Apr 2025
Julia Louis-Dreyfus joins us to dive deep into: going to therapy with her 87-year-old mom, how to love adult kids well, the metaphor that got her through breast cancer, and why we should all be excited about getting older. About Julia: Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of Hollywood’s most influential, iconic actors and producers. She starred in and executive produced HBO’s hit series Veep, she was Elaine Benes in Seinfeld and Christine Campbell in The New Adventures of Old Christine. She has received 11 Emmys with 26 nominations; she broke records for the most Emmys won. She was recently honored with the White House’s National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists who advance the arts in the United States. On April 11, she released her new podcast, “Wiser Than Me,” a 10-part series of candid, witty conversations with women over 70. And her fantastic new film You Hurt My Feelings is being released in May. TW: @OfficialJLD IG: @officialjld To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Full Episode
Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. I can't even, I'm just going to jump right into this. We have a treat and a half for you today. Because today joining us on the pod is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. We all know her as one of Hollywood's most influential, iconic actors and producers. She starred and executive produced HBO's hit series Veep.
She was Elaine Bennis in Seinfeld and Christine Campbell in The New Adventures of Old Christine. She has won 11 Emmys with 26 nominations, breaking records for the most Emmys ever won. She was recently honored with the White House's National Medal of Arts. That was so beautiful to see. The highest award given to artists who advance the arts in the United States. Good job advancing the arts.
Thank you. That was my intention. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And it's so hard to tell who's advancing it. So it's good to know. So thank you. Thank you. She just released her new podcast, Wiser Than Me, a 10-part series of candid, witty conversations with women over 70.
I cannot wait for this. It's so good. We got to listen to two secret episodes. Yes, we did. So good.
And her fantastic new film, You Hurt My Feelings, which I just, we're going to talk about that later because now I'm rethinking the ways that I parent and it's just really done a number on me to tell you the damn truth, is being released in May. Thank you for being here.
Thank you for having me and for that lovely introduction. Thank you so much. What a treat to be on your groovy, fabulous, successful podcast.
Okay. So our new t-shirts that we're going to wear around the house are going to say groovy, successful.
That is a good thing for a t-shirt. Groovy and successful.
Because you can be successful and decidedly not groovy.
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