Julia Louis-Dreyfus returning to Veep after completing chemotherapy
'Veep is on hiatus, we’ll start filming in August and it will air in 2019'
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Your support makes all the difference.Julia Louis-Dreyfus is planning to return to Veep this August to film the final season of the show.
Co-star Matt Walsh spoke to Entertainment Weekly, detailing that the actor has completed undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer and has been attending table reads for season 7, which is set to start production at the end of the summer, with episodes airing in 2019.
"Veep is on hiatus, we’ll start filming in August and it will air in 2019,” Walsh said. “We’ve known for about a month. We’ve seen [Julia], she’s done some table reads, she’s doing well, she’s finished her last chemo, she’s in recuperation. Her prospectives have remained excellent throughout. She’s very well loved; she’s a tremendous person."
He also praised Louis-Dreyfus' willingness to share her experience of illness online, with the actor recently missing the SAG Awards, but tweeting that she has to "admit it's pretty fun to watch in my pj's."
“I would hide if I had an illness like that, but she’s very brave and also better for it because she’s helped other women and other women have supported her," Walsh said. "It’s a really unique, brave thing she’s doing just by being so out there with it.”
Walsh added that about four of the final season scripts have been completed and that the producers "will want to make it the best" season yet.
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