When he made his debut, there was really nothing else in the world like “Seinfeld”. The “show on nothing” followed four New Yorkers when they had trouble forging their careers, finding love and managing their various neuroses, and one of the things that really made it sing was comic chemistry between the four tracks. While the show focused on the actor Jerry Seinfeld, playing a fictitious version of himself to the creator of the series, Larry David, her friends Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George Costanza (Jason Alexander) and Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards) bring all their own sensitivity unique comedies.
Originally, Elaine was not supposed to be one of the four tracks, however, because the pilot who was initially picked up by NBC was going to be mainly on the three guys, with a fourth occasional female in the role of a waitress named Claire (Lee Garlington). In an interview for the American television archiveLouis-Dreyfus revealed that she had ended up being part of “Seinfeld” because another show she was going to find was not worked. The whole thing was fierce at the end, but she had to accept a little blow to her ego first.
Instead of playing in his own show, Louis-Dreyfus played a role in Seinfeld
In the interview, Louis-Dreyfus explained that after having finished playing in the sitcom of two seasons “day after day”, she had a contract with Warner Bros. Television to develop your own series. Unfortunately, she didn’t really like the scripts she saw for the show. As she had a clause where she could go back if the writing was not up to the task, she decided to go in the other direction, and the spectacle never came. Then she said, fate intervened:
“… about 48 hours later, no joke, I was approached by Larry [David] That he had written these four scripts for this show and that I would read them and and and this and this. So I read these four scripts. They were phenomenal. “”
She notes that she did not have much to do in two of the four episodes and it was like a little outburst because she had just played in her own series, but she loved scripts and energy when she met Seinfeld that she decided to do it anyway. She also notes that Warner Bros. He would have continued because they thought that she had broken her contract by reading David’s scripts and leaving her own spectacle, but that she stuck in the way things happened and they let him go. It is also a good thing, because Louis-Dreyfus was on the way to be one of the biggest television stars. “Seinfeld” was a kind of success of lightning in a bottle, and that could not have happened without Elaine.
Seinfeld without Elaine would not be at all breastfeld
Although Louis-Dreyfus did not have much to do like Elaine in two of the episodes, she was still in it. In fact, Elaine was in each episode of “Seinfeld” with the exception of the first of season 4 in two parts, which she had to sit due to complications during pregnancy with her first child. Elaine is a vital part of what makes “Seinfeld” so stinking funny. Can you imagine the hot hilarity of “the competition” without Elaine, for example? She is a fiercely funny woman who holds up with the guys, proving that she can be as obscene, rude and terrible as Jerry, George and Kramer.
The success of “Seinfeld” would fully launch the career of Louis-Dreyfus and make her a familiar name. She did a little of everything, playing the hilarious vice-president inept, Selina Meyer, on “Veep” and even representing a suspicious federal agent in the Marvel cinematographic universe. It would have been good to see what Louis-Dreyfus could have done with his own comedy show in the late 1980s or in the early 1990s, but things finally went to the end.
