By The Huffington Post News Editors

There aren’t that many people who can sling insults and remain as likable as “Veep” star Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

The actress, who returns as Vice President Selina Meyer for the HBO series’ second season on April 14, won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Comedy following the first season of “Veep.” But Louis-Dreyfus, who spent nine years as Elaine Benes on “Seinfeld” and five years as the titular character in CBS’s “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” said she wasn’t looking for an “asshole” character to play.

“Yeah, she’s kind of an asshole,” she said with a laugh. “And I think that comes to me naturally. I didn’t say to myself, ‘I’m going to play an asshole,’ because you can’t start there. That wasn’t the intention. But she’s extremely driven, extremely vain, narcissistic and all of that stuff gets in front of her good intentions, which are somewhere down there. Deep, deep down. She doesn’t mean to do the wrong things. It’s a dog-eat-dog world and she feels that. I’m not going to say she’s a victim — she’s not — but she’s definitely reacting to a political universe she’s been a part of for twenty-something years.”

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