Elaine - Best actress on TV.

Jan 5, 19983 posts by 3 postersalt.tv.seinfeld
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I think Julia Louis is the best actress on TV! When i was watching the very first season episodes of 'Seinfeld' I felt that Julia's acting was just as great as it is now. She is a born actress. What do you guys think?

Chandra...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a great actress. Instead of engaging in ludicrous histrionic sitcom deliveries, she actually exudes a real-life air about her; if a person of Elaine Benis' personality did exist in the real world, then that is probably how the real life person would act (perhaps my description is a bit of an exaggeration, but I think you know what I'm getting at).

For instance, I was watching the first episode of the Kramer-hightails-it-to-Tinseltown episdoe (is it called 'The Keys'?); towards the end, when Elaine is watching along with Seinfeld the end of the Murphy Brown episode and they see Kramer as the secretary on it, her reaction is filled with all kinds of real life dynamics/idiosyncracies (e.g. the way her eyes moved excitedly, the way she sat up in shock, the rise in her tone of voice). She seems to possess an anti-tendency towards school-of-acting techniques in favor of authentic phrasings/body language. She has an excessive quantum of energy surrounding her acting which brings the words from page to screen without any silliness or pretentiousness at all...instead, it is with imagination and, perhaps, a bit of grace...

...and by the way, I think she's hot, too.