![]() With Mick Jagger rooster-strutting into his 80s, Martha Stewart splashed on the Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover and a “Golden Bachelor" making his journey on TV, her interest is well timed. So every episode, she gets schooled on life by self-actualized women in their 70s, 80s and 90s. She wants to know how to think about old age before she gets there. Louis-Dreyfus’s latest project is Wiser Than Me, her first podcast and her most personally revealing work yet. She’s pushing herself into new types of roles, too, appearing as the scheming Valentina Allegra de Fontaine in three recent Marvel projects and set to return in the studio’s forthcoming Thunderbolts. This year’s comedy drama You Hurt My Feelings, in which she plays a writer wounded by her husband’s blunt assessment of her midcareer work, was a critical darling. Her performance in Tuesday, the first feature film from Croatian director Daina Oniunas-Pusić, received warm reviews at the 2023 Telluride Film Festival. ![]() “It’s not like it’s yakking at me all the time, but there’s more laser focus." “I find myself living more mindfully," she says. With the relief of remission comes a determination to make her next years count. She used to feel immortal, she says, but not anymore. It’s been five years since Louis-Dreyfus finished treatment for stage-two breast cancer. “And I’m really interested in trying new things." “I have a lot of experience and I can bring it to bear," she says. The turn reflects, in part, where she is in her life right now. Now the comedy icon is bringing her singular point of view to more serious projects involving questions of marital strife, family tragedy and the wisdom of older women. As she exposes the truths inside human foibles, she creates characters so indelible it’s hard to believe they’re not out there at this very moment making somebody miserable. ![]() The actor with an epic Emmy haul has been instrumental in creating a new era of screen humor, the kind built on horrible people not realizing how horrible they are-Elaine Benes kidnapping a dog, Selina Meyer sabotaging her daughter’s wedding, that kind of thing. It turns out, you can take the girl out of the comedy, but you can’t take the comedy out of the girl. ![]() Even while she explores new emotional depths in her work, with no less than mortality as her co-star, she can’t help but find the funny. Louis-Dreyfus knows the reverse is also true. Most funny people will say that where there’s laughter, there’s usually pain. ![]()
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