Here we are.
My character was one of George's girlfriends,
and she was a bit of a ballbuster.
Oh, I can say that, right? Yeah.
I'm adding it.
She was a bit frustrated that he didn't
read the "Breakfast at Tiffany's," as I recall.
After all, she did get together with George Peppard.
I mean, Fred.
George, Fred's gay.
He had a bunch of little habits that were
kind of bizarre.
Like he had to take everything off as a grown man
to go to the bathroom.
Anybody see that poster in there?
That is weird, wild stuff.
And then I remember he hadn't read the book.
It was deceptive, and I was frustrated
that he hadn't read the book
that he had just reflected on the movie.
Uh, this is George.
Would you mind if he watched
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" with us?
Once we started working on it,
just reading it and staging it,
it was like such a well-oiled machine,
and everyone was so nice.
And it kind of, it's funny how those shows are.
Both "Seinfeld" and "Friends" are so well known
and so mysterious. And everybody was like,
"How would it feel to be ... "
But at that time in LA, also you have to remember,
most women my age were either aspiring to,
or had been, one of George's girlfriends.
And I'm sorry we've kept Lindsay so long.
- Mother. - Oh, no, no, not at all.
It was like the thing you did as a young actress
in her late 20s.
Kind of Jewish-looking actress, who could be kind of funny,
you would probably be called in to be
one of George's girlfriends.
So there was many of us.
It was like a rite of passage.
I'm gonna walk Nana and Aunt Phyllis to the elevator.
George, do you mind waiting just one more minute?
I remember thinking, this is awful to say,
but I wasn't a huge TV watcher.
I'm still not a huge TV watcher.
But I remember thinking how insanely funny it was.
The funny thing about that, it's like the setup
is so brilliant that you have to do very little.
They were such a genius system of making it funny,
and George making it funny,
that you just kind of plugged yourself in.
And people would scream with laughter.
That was what I remember was the audience, too.
They would just be screaming with laughter.
Jason was so nice. And Julia was so nice.
She was just very warm and girlfriend-y.
And Jason was very sweet.
These women
kind of came through the factory of girlfriends,
and he was incredibly lovely and very, very sweet.
Yeah, very kind.
You see, there was this queasiness to doing those episodes
of "Seinfeld," because the one called "The Gymnast"
featured my best friend in the world,
this amazing actress named Elina Löwensohn, who's Romanian,
which is probably why they cast her as the gymnast.
Ceausescu.
He must have been some dictator.
Oh, yes.
And at that point in time, we went to college together,
and then she was living in France,
and then she was back in New York.
And somehow the casting director heard about her.
And in the most bizarre confluence of events,
I was in LA, and I hadn't been in touch with her,
and this is my closest friend in the world,
and she calls me to say she's coming to LA,
because they have cast her
as a Romanian gymnast in "Seinfeld."
Which she never had really even watched.
She was just very European.
And that was the episode that I was doing.
So I, we couldn't, I mean, it was such a bizarre,
sort of meshing of worlds.
I remember going in to read for it,
and you just go into this little bungalow,
and you just read the few lines, right, for Larry.
And he sort of just laughed a little, and then you leave,
you file in.
And then I remember calling my answering service,
and they said, "You got the part."
And I was engaged to my husband,
and he was doing extremely well.
He was making a movie already,
and I remember calling him and saying,
"Oh, yeah, I know we're supposed to go out
tomorrow night, but I have to work.
I'm so sorry, I didn't realize."
He was like, "Oh, what are you doing?"
I was a nanny at the time for George Wendt.
And he said something like, "Oh, what are you doing,
do you have to babysit?"
I was like, "No, no I'm on 'Seinfeld.'"
And I remember feeling so incredibly accomplished
that it wasn't that I had to babysit,
but that I was on "Seinfeld." And I was like,
"No, no, no, I'm doing 'Seinfeld,'"
as though there was a slew of television shows
that I was doing that week, and this was one of them.
People bring up "Seinfeld" in Europe.
That's more where people will say, where people watch it.
It has this international appeal, of course.
She didn't want the constraints of any relationship,
that's why she got rid of the cat.
The most important thing in Holly's life
was her independence.
And people will actually bring up the book episode,
where he doesn't read "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
more than the eclair one.
Well, New York humor is where it's at.
The complexity of New York humor
and the absurdity of those circumstances.
And I think that Julia is so deeply beloved,
I think that is a big part of it.
It's also the mechanics of how everybody worked,
but I think that she's just a genius, too.
And I think that's a big part of the appeal.