Louis-Dreyfus had a life-changing moment when she stood up to the studio before she launched to fame in the hit sitcom “Seinfeld.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus had a life-changing moment when she stood up to Warner Bros. and told them to “f–k off.”
“I was really scared because it was Warner Bros. and I was just this girl who was an actress,” she admitted recently on the “The “Veep” star revealed that around the same time she was sent the scripts for “The Seinfeld Chronicles” by Larry David — otherwise known as the pilot for Jerry Seinfeld’s long-running sitcom — she had a development deal with Warner Bros. that had “a creative out based on the material that was being developed.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus said that Warner Bros. threatened her with a lawsuit during the time in her life between starring on “Day by Day” and “Seinfeld.”At the time, she wasn’t quite yet the star that she became post-“Seinfeld” — so she felt intimidated by the studio’s threats. Louis-Dreyfus wasn’t comfortable listening to her reps when she knew she did nothing wrong, so she called up “Day by Day” creator Gary Goldberg for advice.Joesph Delvalle/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty ImagesNBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
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