![]() ![]() “I’m a perfectionist in my work,” she says. Although she has the most interesting acting role of her career right now – the narcissistic, thwarted vice president of the United States on HBO’s political satire Veep – it’s been almost 25 years since she first played Jerry Seinfeld’s nervy sidekick Elaine Benes on his TV show. Louis-Dreyfus’ professional life, however, is a lot more hectic than the easy California dream of her home life. She’s a people-pleaser, this one, and several times, as we proceed on the trail, while she points out some of the local oddities, like an oak tree with two trunks, which has a name she can’t recall – “I learned it two days ago, and now I can’t remember it there endeth the lesson” – she mentions that we should have gone for this hike in Will Rogers State Historic Park instead of this canyon because the ranch there, where Rogers used to live with his polo ponies, is so beautiful. Though curse words often issue forth from Louis-Dreyfus’ mouth, this energetic 53-year-old is as discreet and demure as can be. I’d love to do a full marathon, but now I worry about blowing out things, and I don’t want to be fucked forever as a result.” “I love exercising,” she says, tossing a seven-buck parking fee in a brown national park requisition box and zipping up a black Nike windbreaker. ![]() a sadistic fitness class involving cardio and weights or, on occasion, a two- to four-mile run. This is the morning ritual Louis-Dreyfus prefers: a stout hike after rising from bed around 6 a.m. Standing barely five-feet-three and mostly made of muscle mass, with wowee brown eyes, a heart-shaped face and energy as coiled as her hair, it’s hard to believe she’s in her mid-fifties. Julia Louis-Dreyfus pulls up to the mouth of the Temescal Canyon hiking trail in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles in her gray Tesla, then jumps out in a flurry. ![]()
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