Veep may be a comedy that revels in double standards, but star Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she believes the show might actually be helping solve the gender-imbalance issues that often drive its plot. Louis-Dreyfus told her audience at the Cannes Lions, “There is a tremendous inequity in Hollywood and in politics, and I would say globally it’s challenging to be a woman and succeed. There’s a lot of fun to be made of it, and in so doing maybe you can move the needle a little bit.” One central element of the show is its gleeful and abundant use of obscenity, which Louis-Dreyfus said is largely a representation of how politicians act when they remove their public masks.
