Julia Louis-Dreyfus's voice echoed around the walls of the rented wig factory, stunning then hushing her cast mates.
It was the early 1980s and the future queen of comedy had been asked to join a new comedy troupe of fellow Northwestern University students.
As the only female in the cast, she was quick to stand her ground. It caught the eye of fellow comic Brad Hall.
Today, Louis-Dreyfus and Hall have been married for almost 40 years. Here's a look back at one of comedy's greatest love stories.
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"There was a day when Julia brought everything to a halt in rehearsals," Hall once recalled in an interview with The New Yorker.
"We were teasing her in some way, and she just said, 'That's over. We're not doing that anymore.' We all just went, 'Whoa, holy shit.' "
Her toughness, determination and comic timing sparked a connection for Hall. Little did he know, the feeling was mutual.
"There were a couple of moments, some of which I will not share," Louis-Dreyfus said in a 2013 interview about her initial feelings for Hall.
"But I would say that I knew almost immediately. It's really the truth."
Their student years of comedy proved successful, with the pair soon leaving Illinois for New York City and the lights and jokes of Saturday Night Live.
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Hall was a regular on the cult classic show from 1982 until 1984.
Louis-Dreyfus, the youngest SNL cast mate at the time at 21, outlasted Hall by a year.
On June 25, 1987, the pair wed. They married in a church ceremony in Santa Barbara in California. Hall's father acted as the minister.
Louis-Dreyfus walked down the aisle accompanied by her father, William, and her stepfather, Tom.
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The Veep star's wedding dress was inspired by the gown the late Princess Diana wore to her Royal Wedding with then-Prince Charles in 1981.
"Lady Di's dress had these poofy sleeves with two layers of lace that came off the cuff," she said in a 2024 interview.
"And I totally stole that for my dress, which was a sort of study of everything awful in the '80s. Well, I mean, that's not fair. It was fine, but it was so '80s."
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To add her own touch, the actress asked her designer to sew a good luck charm into her dress - a tiny dolphin carved out in stone.
"I still don't know where it is in the dress, which I think is kind of fabulous," she admitted.
"It's in there somewhere. Fortune's whisper sewn in with lucky threads of grace."
By 1992, the couple welcomed their first child together, Henry. Their second son, Charlie, was born five years later.
Following his time on SNL, Hall's career shifted from in front of the camera to behind. the writer's room and as a producer.
He is best known for Brooklyn Bridge (1991) and Picture Paris (2011). He wrote and directed Picture Paris in which Louis-Dreyfus stars.
Louis-Dreyfus' career took off in the late 1980s and early 1990s when she landed her breakout role of Elaine in the US sitcom Seinfeld.
The role earned her an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Her TV success continued in the noughties with lead roles in The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006) and Veep (2012).
It was during her time on Veep that Louis-Dreyfus and Hall's family life was tested.
In September 2017, at age 57, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
"You hear it all the time, but the people that I relied on the most, besides the very capable doctors and nurses who took care of me, were my family and my close friends," Louis-Dreyfus told People in 2020.
Hall was among them. She said he never left her side throughout the battle.
"It was like they had their hands underneath me holding me up," she said.
"I think whenever a family goes through a crisis and comes out the other end, you're bound to have an intimacy that, perhaps, wasn't quite there like it was before.
"I mean, we were very close before, but I know how precious life is."
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