Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s perspective on life changed after she fought stage two breast cancer in 2017. In an interview with People, the Veep star recalled how her illness made her face up to her mortality, and at one stage, she asked herself “how best” she might spend her “remaining time on this planet”. “I never thought I was immortal, but you don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the end of your life,” she said in a cover interview for the publication’s first-ever Earth Day special issue.
Julia then noted that her health scare inspired her to work on ways to preserve the planet for her sons Henry and Charlie, so she joined the Board of Trustees at the Natural Resources Defense Council – the leading U.S.