Veep postpones production as Julia Louis-Dreyfus undergoes treatment for breast cancer

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Executive producer Frank Rich gave an update today on Veep’s final season, and how the show plans to work around Louis-Dreyfus’ recovery: “Julia is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, and we’re obviously postponing production of the show — we were supposed to have started now – while she’s in treatment,” he said in an interview with SiriusXM’s Julie Mason. “But the expectation is that we will shoot again. We have one more season we’re doing, which we’re incredibly excited about. Rather impressively, while we wait for her to gather her full strength, around her treatment, we’ve been having with the cast in Los Angeles, table reads of scripts for the final season as they’re ready.”