The Seinfeld star plays the mother of a terminally ill girl being visited by Death, who has taken the physical form of a giant parrot, in new film.
“I'm hoping that it'll foster conversations about these issues, some of which are very difficult to talk about,” she toldhost A Martinez. “How to handle these big things that happen to us all. And yet we don't really like to think or talk about them.”
Louis-Dreyfus plays Zora, the mother of a terminally ill daughter named Tuesday . Zora struggles to come to terms with the inevitable. She refuses to engage her daughter on the subject of death, even hiring a full-time nurse to care for her — an expense Zora struggles to afford — in part, to avoid watching Tuesday suffer.But Death arrives in the form of a giant macaw to take her daughter away.
“I was immediately drawn by the script,” Louis-Dreyfus said. “The themes of the parent/child bond, the themes of grief, loss, denial, death — these were interesting ideas. And then the fact that there is this sort of shapeshifting macaw, otherworldly representation of death, I thought, ‘Whoa, this is crazy town!’”
Louis-Dreyfus realizes that a film about death isn’t quite what fans of her comedy work were expecting. “There's comedy in everything,” she said, just before she shared a very personal example. “When my father, who has passed away, was dying, we were in the hospital. I remember a woman came in with a platter of cheese, crackers and salami. I mean, aplatter like if you were having a party for 50 people. And I said, ‘Oh, this couldn't be for us.’ It was just me and my dad there. And she goes, ‘Oh, no, when this happens , this is what we do.’” She laughed at the memory. “I’ll never forget it.
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