Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the former Seinfeld star-turned Emmy winner for playing US President Selina Meyer in comedy series Veep, has taken a swipe at our PM.

In an interview with the New York Times to promote her role as vulgar Meyer in a new season of Veep, the actress was asked if it startled her to see real-life politicians replicating the absurd things she’s done on Veep.

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“It does freak me out, particularly when you see where this season is going,” Louis-Dreyfus said.

“Certainly, some of the material that’s out there, that’s happening as we speak, if we put that into a script we might get notes back from HBO saying, ‘It’s too broad.’ ”

When it was put to Louis-Dreyfus that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull had “copied one of the show’s campaign slogans almost word for word”, Louis-Dreyfus added, “Unwittingly. We were ‘Continuity With Change’, he was ‘Continuity and Change’.

“We tried to come up with the most banal, vacuous, meaningless piece of (garbage) slogan. He used ‘and’, so maybe that somehow makes it more palatable.”

Questioned about her voting plans for the looming US election, Louis-Dreyfus said “Whoever the Democrat is. Period. End of story”.

She can’t get her head around Donald Trump being president, even if it’s a goldmine for comedy.

“I can’t go there yet. I really can’t,” Louis-Dreyfus said.

“When he was talking about abortion rights, and who’s punishable, it reminded me of an episode we did on abortion.

“The back-pedalling that he was trying to master — I say in quotes — Selina was trying to do that same thing. He’s more in one camp than the other, although he used to be in the other camp, where Selina was trying to say both things at once, so as not to lose a certain part of the electorate.

“I find it just horrifying and funny and also embarrassing.”