>> Veep gets ready to co close
its 7th and final season.
Are you ready for this?
>> You tell me.
We got to be.
We have five more, so we have
that much time to get ready, I
suppose.
>> You've already said good-bye,
really.
So the last day of shooting,
what was that like?
>> Oh, my gosh, it was it was a
lot of feelings.
I have never spent that much
time just letting every single
tear out and hugging that many
people at once.
It was lovely, when you think
about it, it was emotionally
intimate, wonderful.
>> I know Julia has said the
show saved her life, especially
dealing with breast cancer, just
seeing her on that journey, had
to be so inspiring.
But she's so strong and she is
that character.
>> Well, she's not.
Not in that way.
In a lot of ways, yeah.
But --
>> Definitely, the -- the -- you
know, the commitment to what
matters to her for sure, and
yeah, Julia's, you know, she's
indefaticable.
She's the hardest working woman
I've ever meant.
Didn't you all have some
inappropriate texts going on and
there was humor around it?
>> Yeah, you got to keep humor,
I think, and I suppose -- I
don't know, I -- I never got
feedback on how appropriate my
texts were or not.
>> Can you tell us?
>> No, I don't know, you send
poems or something, that you see
son the subway every once in a
while.
I don't know, but, yeah, I think
it's lovely that we all got to
be together, and that she is
just so committed to such a
fantastic performance of Selena.
>> In your character's journey,
she's pregnant last we saw, and
something's going on with the
baby, maybe, maybe not?
>> Well, you --
>> Well, something goes on
with -- yeah, she's -- yeah,
she's weighing her options.
And yeah, that's very much where
Amy's at at the beginning of the
season.
>> Don't you love playing her,
though, she's such a cool
character.
>> I -- I do, I think -- I don't
know, I think when you spend
this much time with a character,
you -- it -- you -- it's almost
like spending a lot of time with
yourself, stuff you really
enjoy, and stuff you're like --
this thing?
I don't know, it's a mixed bag.
>> But the cast, the group of
people you assembled for this,
there's a no jerk policy on the
set, and you can really feel it.
>> I love that.
You are going to be on to your
next thing, I love looking back
at your career, you're doing all
these movies, you took a big
break to go to this little thing
called college?
>> Yeah, that's obviously many,
many years condensed into the
retrospective.
But yeah, I -- I don't know,
college matters, education
matters.
>> I know, it's a big thing.
Like a lot of people don't do
what you did.
This career, they think you have
to stay in it.
>> This was -- that's what was
right for me, especially at that
time, I think -- you know, when
you grow up in such a highly
competitive environment like
that, it didn't suit me very
well, for my own emotional
growth.
So yeah, I preferred writing
papers and really focusing on,
you know, backing up a thesis,
and so that's what I did at that
time.
And then --
>> I love that.
>> I came back to it.
>> She's normal.
>> Let's do a little game with
you, we want you to fill in the
blanks, chlumsky comes clean.