Julia Louis-Dreyfus Slams 'SNL' By Claiming It Was 'Sexist', Made Her 'Miserable'

Julia Louis-Dreyfus attended a Montclair Film Festival event in New Jersey over the weekend where she opened up to Stephen Colbert about one of her first jobs as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live.”

“It was very sexist — very sexist,” Louis-Dreyfus said, according to Variety. “People were doing crazy drugs at the time. I was oblivious. I just thought, 'Oh, wow! He's got a lot of energy!'”

She also said how “miserable” she was while working there and admitted that she was “unbelievably naive” and “didn’t really understand how the dynamics of the place worked.”

Louis-Dreyfus was just 21-years-old in 1982 when she left Northwestern University and joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live." She stayed on the show for three years and has since appeared back to host in 2006 and 2007.

Even though it wasn’t a positive experience for her, she did say that she learned from it.

“I learned I wasn’t going to do anymore of this show-business crap unless it was fun,” she said. “I don’t have to walk and crawl through this kind of nasty glass if it’s not ultimately going to be fulfilling, and so that’s how I sort of moved forward from that moment. I sort of applied the fun-meter to every job I’ve had since and that has been very helpful.”

Louis-Dreyfus got her big break in 1990 when she was cast as Elaine Benes on the sitcom “Seinfeld.” She would go on to play the lead role in "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and Selina Meyer in HBO’s “Veep.”

Louis-Dreyfus currently holds 11 Emmys, all for her vastly different roles on television.