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Julia Louis-Dreyfus: 'Veep' isn't about Biden


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Julia Louis-Dreyfus swears that her character in "Veep" isn't based on any real politician.

"It's made up," the actress, best known for her role as Elaine on "Seinfeld," told reporters at the comedy's D.C. premiere on Wednesday. In “Veep,” Louis-Dreyfus plays Selina Meyer, an accomplished senator turned vice president who’s struggling with the new job.

She’s not channeling Sarah Palin — the almost first female vice president? Nope, Louis-Dreyfus has said.

Or Joe Biden? Not at all, the actress insisted, but HBO did contact the vice president about the show, she said. “I think he was probably hesitant to talk to us — or to me specifically — because he didn’t know what the hell the show was going to be. I get that,” Louis-Dreyfus explained. “He might have thought that I was parodying him specifically, which I’m not.”

Biden demurred, but plenty of other political figures were happy to help out.

“I talked to a bunch of vice presidents. I talked to chiefs of staff, schedulers, body men,” Louis-Dreyfus said. Which real veeps offered advice? She wouldn’t say, but one of her sources has already spilled the beans: A few months ago, Al Gore told the AP about his meeting with the actress.

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