Palisades resident Julia Louis-Dreyfus found her podcast microphone in the ashes of her home.
By BERNICE FOX
Like so many others, Julia Louis-Dreyfus carefully looked through the rubble of what had been her Pacific Palisades home, searching for anything that might have survived the fire.
And on Tuesday, she posted a photo on Instagram and wrote:
“Our house of 31 years burned to the ground in the Pacific Palisades Fire. I found my podcast microphone in the rubble and ash.”
For her podcast, Louis-Dreyfus has been recording her conversations with women who have life experience she says she doesn’t have. She calls her podcast Wiser Than Me.
One of Louis-Dreyfus’ passions is the environment. So along with posting the photo of her burned-out microphone, she added “Climate scientists estimate that the fire that burned Pacific Palisades was made 35-percent more likely by the effects of climate change.”
With Earth Day on Tuesday, she announced that her latest podcast guest is a marine biologist “who’s out in the world trying to do something about the climate crisis.”
Louis-Dreyfus and her husband, Brad Hall, have a second home in the Santa Barbara area. That’s where Hall grew up.
She’s been active in environmental issues there, most recently calling on the State of California not to allow an offshore oil pipeline to again carry oil. The “Don’t Enable Sable” oil pipeline rally was held on March 13. There was a spill from that pipeline 10 years ago.
And Louis-Dreyfus has another project to take her mind off the loss of her Pacific Palisades home. She plays the director of the CIA in the upcoming Marvel movie, Thunderbolts. It opens in theaters May 2.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus at a rally in Santa Barbara on March 13.