The comedian revealed her billionaire father, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, had a “really negative” reaction to her television debut at the age of 21.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus recalled feeling “devastated” when her late father body-shamed her over one of her first “Saturday Night Live” sketches.
The comedian, 62, revealed in an interview published Tuesday that her billionaire dad, Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, called her “too big” and “too broad” when she made her television debut at the age of 21 in 1982.“He didn’t handle it properly, and he wasn’t gentle. His complaint was that I was too big, too broad. I was devastated by that.”to be $3.4 billion — died in September 2016. He was 84.
“He was such a narcissist, I didn’t even consider [saying anything],” she shared with a chuckle, adding, “And I say that with love in my heart.”The “Veep” star was scouted by “SNL” while performing at Second City in Chicago despite admittedly having “no understanding about performing in this new medium.”
She dropped out of school at Northwestern University and went on to appear on the NBC sketch comedy show for three seasons from 1982 to 1985.cast in Season 2 of “Sex Lives of College Girls.”She and her husband, fellow “SNL” alum Brad Hall, are also the parents of son Henry, 30.
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