After navigating a man’s world on Saturday Night Live, Seinfeld and Veep, Louis-Dreyfus comes fully into her own in the new film Tuesday
, episode 205, that’s a touchstone for me. Selina Meyer, the Vice-President of the U.S., has just been groped by the husband of the Finnish Prime Minister. Lighting a cigarette, Selina confers with her staff about how to react. Amy, her chief adviser, counsels her to say nothing: “Being fondled by a Finn would be all you’d be remembered for. You can’t build a statue on that.”
Tuesday is a teenager dying, painfully, of a terminal illness. Her mother Zora , overwhelmed by helplessness, tries to hide from it: She waits by the window for the caregiver to arrive; she pretends to go to work, then whiles away hours in coffee shops and parks. When Death arrives, in the form of a regal talking macaw , Tuesday convinces him to wait until her mother gets home.
“I could ask Julia to do nuanced drama, deep tragedy and absurdist comedy, sometimes in the same scene, sometimes in the same moment,” Pusic said in a separate video call. “At such a high level. And it seemed effortless for her. It’s a rare thing for someone of her calibre to have the gumption, the adventurousness, to put herself in such an unfamiliar role, with a first-time director.”
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