Julia Louis-Dreyfus is presenting at the Oscars this weekend – for this first time. Sunday night will mark her Oscars debut, as a guest or presenter. You’re surprised, right?

Sure, Julia has never been nominated, but she came pretty close during the 2013-2014 awards season with Nicole Holofcener’sEnough Said(which I loved), earning a Golden Globe nomination and Critics’ Choice honour for her buzzy, tender performance opposite the late James Gandolfini. Typically, Oscar also-rans or the year’s contenders will get an invite to the big show, like Jennifer Aniston afterCakein 2015, or Sarah Silverman afterI Smile Back in 2016. Either way, Julia’s yet to formally accept an invitation until now.

That’s not to say the Academy has not tried to get her there. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she was one of the Academy’s first choices to host the Oscars (remember those days???) back in 2015. She declined, andthey gave the gig to Neil Patrick Harris. How’s that for Hollywood Sliding Doors?

Apparently now’s the time. Julia’s filmDownhill下周五在情人节开放。这是她以来的第一个主要项目Veep’s series finale aired in May, and it is also the first feature film she’s ever produced,pushing to get it madefor about five years.Downhillis the American remake ofForce Majeure（我在2010年代最喜欢的电影之一），关于父亲在奥地利阿尔卑斯山在雪崩钻探期间放弃家人的情况时会发生什么。这部电影还饰演了Ferrell，记载了事件的后果和随后的关系衰败，并于上周在圣丹斯首映。这部电影从节日中散发出来的招待会，但朱莉娅已经是singled out as the highlight. Yes, it’s too early, but Collider’s Jeff Sneider has already dubbed her performance Globe-worthy:

Prior to Sundance, Julia had been keeping a pretty low profile. While she was nominated at the Critics’ Choice for her final turn as Selina Meyer onVeep,演员和团队的管理信息系统fits were mostly snubbed by the Globes and SAG Awards, andwent home empty-handed at the Emmysin September, which was the show’s last hurrah or last chance to be nominated. She hasn’t been to a traditional awards showsince September either.

Julia stopped byEllentoday, where she talked about her two “adult male children,” laughed about her indie rocker son Henry Hall, and how staying up for his gigs is pretty challenging. And before Ellen referred toVeepas one of the best shows “ever, ever on television” around the6:05 mark of the first video, Julia spoke warmly about how the show would have handled the existing American President’s latest Twitter gaffe about what state Kansas City is in.

She says:

“It does and it doesn’t [make me miss Veep]. … I have to tell you, if I were doing Veep right now, it would be really fun to script those 12 minutes between him launching the tweet and then deleting it. … I mean, I have to say, I think he’s doing a better job of our show, except to say that it in fact isn’t even remotely funny. It does make me miss it. It was super funny. It’s just hard to compete with that crap.”

We miss Selina too, but now Julia is launching a new chapter with a pretty big first... on Hollywood’s biggest stage. Soon after, she’s reteaming with Pixar (she was in theCarsspinoff,Planesin 2013) forOnward, which is out March 5 in Canada, opposite Chris Pratt and Tom Holland. Even ifDownhilldoesn’t necessarily measure up toForce Majeure’s hype or critical success, her professional life after Selina looks pretty rosy.

Will Ferrell’s presenting too. Will these co-stars be our Oscars version of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler?

Attached: Julia and theDownhillcast at Sundance.