Julia Louis-Dreyfus Is the No. 2 Search in America: a Broadway Debut, a Late-Night Stop and a New Apple Series
The Veep star is having a three-front week - her first Broadway role is open at the Hudson Theatre, she led the guest list on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday, and she has signed on with Cecily Strong for an Apple limited series - and searchers noticed.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus was the No. 2 search in the United States on the Google Trends board overnight, second only to 'government jobs' on the TrendingSoup snapshot of the Trends RSS feed updated early Tuesday - the kind of spike that usually means three pieces of news landed at once. In her case, they did.
The biggest is Broadway. Louis-Dreyfus is making her Broadway debut in the first revival of Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities at the Hudson Theatre, playing Polly Wyeth opposite Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Lily Rabe and Joe Keery. The production began previews on September 29, opened October 18 and is scheduled to run through January 17, 2027.
On Monday night she was the lead interview guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers, talking about the role - two Saturday Night Live alumni from very different eras of the show comparing notes, as MemorableTV put it in its preview of the episode, which also featured Jamie Dornan.
And over the weekend, Deadline reported that Louis-Dreyfus and fellow SNL alumna Cecily Strong will star in an Apple limited series adapted from New York Magazine's October article 'The Nanny Squatter' - the story of a couple who thought they had found Mary Poppins until she refused to leave. Mary Bronstein will write, direct and serve as showrunner, with both stars executive producing.
