How would you describe Julia Louis-Dreyfus in three words? Um…an anonymous gay fan who knows that dirt about me from Fire Island? We don't know that he's gay! What's the last picture you took on your phone? It's nothing to lose your shirt over.) And between two-count 'em, two-visits from another fan who just happens to remember that time when, 15 years ago, Meloni accidentally dragged his rolly suitcase through the wooded area of New York's Fire Island known as the 'meat rack' (just look it up), we discuss the lasting legacy of Wet Hot American Summer, playing Julia Louis-Dreyfus' meathead lover on Veep, and getting big-timed by Paris Hilton: I'm just on a date with Detective Elliot Stabler. (Oh yeah, and he's also known for his body, but like, whatever, guys. And though the 53-year-old is ridiculously funny-he possesses the kind of deadpan humor that gets better with every prolonged silence-women keep tripping over the locale's sidewalk chalkboard, trying to get a second look.īut such is the plight of an actor who is as known for his lantern jaw and gravelly timbre as he is for his body of work. 'I loved you in Harold and Kumar!' shouts one passerby on a skateboard before the Law & Order star has even swallowed his first mint leaf. When you stop to get an ice-cold mojito with Christopher Meloni and sit in the window of Greenwich Village hotspot Horchata, people take notice.
