Julia Louis-Dreyfus has revealed her late co-star James Gandolfini was convinced he wasn’t good enough for his role in ‘Enough Said.’
The four-time Emmy winning star worked alongside the actor – best known for his role in ‘The Sapranos’ as Tony Saprano – in the comedy movie which was his last appearance on screen and she admits he was very reluctant about taking the job.
She said: “I think he was a bit reticent [about starring in Enough Said] at first, not because he didn't want to do comedy, but he definitely felt undeserving of the part, which is ridiculous.
“He would make jokes with [director] Nicole Holofcener saying, ‘Feel free to call Clooney if you want! What am I doing getting the girl?' But that made him ever more loveable and the character was very close to who he was.”
The 52-year-old actress admits the movie also made her relive the emotional experience of having to see her eldest son leave for college.
She said: “My children are now 21 and 16 and when we made the film I had just gone through the landmark moment in my family's life of taking our eldest son to college.
“I cried a lot and I cried in anticipation. You find yourself doing really weird things. There is a kind of denial that sets in that is bizarre. Both my sons go to the same school, went to the same school, and when they sent me the bill for tuition for one son, I was thinking I haven't got the bill for my other son, I kept on waiting, because I didn't want to write two cheques, and it's only when I picked up the phone to say, 'Hey I haven't got it', that I realized that I'm not going to get it.”
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