“I was unbelievably naive and I didn’t really understand how the dynamics of the place worked. It was very sexist, very sexist. People were doing crazy drugs at the time. I was oblivious. I just thought, Oh wow, he’s got a lot of energy.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images Julia Louis-Dreyfus has always been honest about the fact that her time as a Saturday Night Live cast member in the ’80s wasn’t exactly the best experience. This weekend, she expanded on her thoughts during a conversation with Stephen Colbert at a fundraiser for Montclair Film.
“There were plenty of people on the show who were incredibly funny,” Louis-Dreyfus told Colbert, according to a release recapping the event. Speaking on drug use at the show more, Louis-Dreyfus added, “I don’t know how anybody could work stoned … It was a pretty brutal time, but it was a very informative time for me.” Thankfully, the experience at SNL turned out to be a useful lesson for the future Seinfeld and Veep star.
Louis-Dreyfus has said similar things about her time at SNL in the past. During a SiriusXM Town Hall in 2013, she said she was “pretty miserable” on the show and described the environment as “dog-eat-dog.” Later, in a 2016 interview with the New York Times, she said, “I didn’t do anything particularly great when I was there. I didn’t. It’s fine. But I learned a tremendous amount. It was a very sexist environment.
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