![]() The film contains acute observations about family, marriage, gift-giving, artistic neuroses, mid-life crises and parenting adult children. “We both felt very strongly that we really wanted to depict a couple who have been married for a long time but were still in love in a believable way, you know? Not saccharine and lovey-dovey,” Louis-Dreyfus said. Louis-Dreyfus was able to draw on her own 35-year marriage to help paint a believable picture of this couple, who like to share food - even ice cream cones - much to the horror of their son. Beth and Don also worry about their son (Owen Teague) who, in their eyes, is floundering in his career and personal life. In “You Hurt My Feelings,” Beth (Louis-Dreyfus) is a moderately successful author living in New York City with her husband Don ( Tobias Menzies ), a therapist whose confidence has also been shaken at work, with some memory gaps and unsatisfied patients (Amber Tamblyn and David Cross play a very unhappily married couple). “I couldn’t understand how someone could get me or get my sense of humor or my values or what’s important to me and not enjoy my films. ![]() “My movies are so personal to me,” she said. She was floored that that was the takeaway. “But in the end, it really mattered.”Īfter watching “Please Give,” her 2010 film about a couple who fill their pricey furniture store with bargain estate sale findings, she remembered the first thing he said was that the old woman was really cranky. “I tried really hard to have that not matter,” she said. Some years ago, she actually had the experience of dating a man who was crazy about her but didn’t seem to like or get her movies. It’s something Holofcener thinks a lot about in her own relationships. “I was considering how devastating it would be, as an artist myself, if my spouse had been absolutely and totally lying to me about his reaction to whatever I was doing. “I found it to be an utterly captivating notion because it’s like an infidelity, but it’s not an infidelity,” Louis-Dreyfus said. As soon as it was over, they longed to do it again - though 10 years was a little longer than they'd hoped.įor their new film, “You Hurt My Feelings” (in theaters May 26), Holofcener landed on an even stickier scenario: An author overhears her husband saying that he doesn’t like her latest book, sending her into a spiral of doubt about her talent and her relationship. The film was “Enough Said,” in which Louis-Dreyfus plays a woman who inadvertently befriends the ex-wife (Keener) of the man she’s dating ( James Gandolfini ). I felt like, ‘Wow, I’d be lucky to have this woman play a version of me.’” We talked about our kids going away to college. But when they sat down for dinner, she quickly realized Louis-Dreyfus was nothing like her “Seinfeld” character. Like everyone, she knew her as Elaine - almost obsessively so, she said. Then just over a decade ago, Julia Louis-Dreyfus entered her orbit. Since her debut, “Walking and Talking,” Holofcener has time and time again gone back to Catherine Keener, a forever friend and muse to help bring her thoughts to the screen. But, even so, it can be ridiculous fun to watch great actors play out your plights. And that your problems don’t go away once you put them on screen. That getting to work with your idols is one of the best perks of the job. That when someone just says “congratulations” after a film, they didn’t like it and don’t want to tell you. ![]() That attending the Oscars is more fun as a guest than a nominee. Nicole Holofcener has learned a few things about Hollywood over the years. ![]()
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