Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep, Curb Your Enthusiasm), who played Elaine Benes on the TV show, Seinfeld (1989-1999), spoke about her experience on the show. According to Entertainment Weekly, she revealed about how the stress in an influential show was hard work to keep perfect on set.
In the series, the whole plot of the show follows a group of friends and their hilarious situations in New York City. The cast includes Jerry Seinfeld (Bee Movie) as Jerry, Jason Alexander (Duckman, Young Sheldon) as George, Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine, and Michael Richards (Fridays) as Kramer. As it went on for nine seasons, the cast had many iconic moments that made the show a 90s classic, including the Soup Nazi, the “yada, yada,” and Elaine’s revenge with the toilet paper.
The network even wanted a crossover between Seinfeld and Friends when they were both airing. The crossover would’ve been navigating the New York City blackout with each of the characters in each of their shared set scenes. However, co-creator Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm) didn’t have the show participate and the idea was scrapped. The creators then ended the show with an unresolved ending.
Louis-Dreyfus was asked if there was ‘friction’ while on the show, replying, “Of course, yes, tons. I mean it’s hard to do anything really well and it takes a lot of work and you’re gonna butt heads.”
Louis-Dreyfus hardly looks back on the work she did in any of her series and films. Most comedians hardly ever do, as most of the material that they did on set is a lot to go over, especially when watching it to see where they could do better on and editing through camera shots. However, some outsiders to the show bring her back to the nostalgia, including her own husband, Emmy-nominated writer Brad Hall (Brooklyn Bridge, Picture Paris), who watches bloopers of the show and enjoys her on it.