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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Reveals Why 'Seinfeld' Wasn’t as Fulfilling in the Beginning · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Julie Louis Drivius became a household name thanks to playing
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  Speaker 2: Elaine on Seinfeld, but she admitted to The Daily Beast
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  Speaker 2: when the show first got on she didn't feel very
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  Speaker 2: fulfilled by the role until she approached its creators, Jerry
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  Speaker 2: Seinfeld and Larry David. She says, I never really approached
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  Speaker 2: it from the perspective of my gender. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to play ball with everybody. I'm not going to lie.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, I didn't always have a lot to
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  Speaker 2: do in certain episodes. I went to Larry and Jerry
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  Speaker 2: multiple times and say, hey, you guys, write me more.
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  Speaker 2: I need to be in this show more. And they did.
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  Speaker 2: But they didn't write me as a woman. They just
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  Speaker 2: wrote for me for this character as opposed to her gender,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is important from her writing point of view.
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  Speaker 2: Her new movie You Hurt My Feelings is out today.
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  Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.