Ex-President Selina Meyer gets to know an old friend, and stomp old enemies in the new Veep season 6 trailer.
The most beloved ex-Veep, former-POTUS and future world power Selina Meyer is back, after a “really fun” year, in the official trailer for Veep season 6.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, as former President of the United States Selina Meyer, admits the “loss hurt,” but since a tie-breaking vote in Congress put Laura Montez, her opponent’s vice presidential candidate, into the White House, she’s remembers what’s most important.
“I did take this opportunity to reacquaint myself with an old friend of mine by the name of Selina Meyer,” she says. She’s also been living a very busy life, painting over inner-city graffiti, and offering to wallpaper, avoiding landmines in refugee camps, and promising revenge. Her plans to destroy new congressman Jonah Ryan are “so creative, they will honor me for it at the Kennedy Center!”
Veep season 6 will run 10 episodes and follow the former vice president’s first post-Presidential year. Meyer was never actually voted into office, she got the job on the heels of a presidential scandal that left her in charge. Her successor got in when Washington couldn’t break a tie.
President Selina Meyer will look back on a short legacy as commander-in-chief of the United States after an unprecedented turn in the elections, but Julia Louis-Dreyfuss continues to serve as First Lady of TV Comedy. Dreyfus won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the fifth year in a row in September and pulled in the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series last month.
Veep won two best comedy Emmys and took home the best directing comedy series trophy at Saturday’s DGA Awards
Veep Season 6 Cast
Blunt Talk’s Mary Holland will play a high powered political fundraiser on Veep season 6. There is no word on whether she will be raising funds for the now-ex-POTUS.
Veep stars record-setting –Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus the former vice president, President Selina Meyer. Veep also stars Emmy winner Tony Hale, Emmy nominee Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Matt Walsh, Timothy C. Simons, Sufe Bradshaw and Kevin Dunn.
Veep was created by Armando Iannucci who was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing the Tony Blaire era political film In the Loop.The new showrunner is David Mandel, who ran Larry David’s HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Veep Season 6 Premiere Date
Veep season 6 premieres on Sunday, April 16 at 10:30 p.m. There is no word on when Silicon Valley, Veep’s usual Sunday-night companion comedy, will premiere. Winter comes to Game of Thronesthis summer.
SOURCE: EW