In four years, George Lucas will join the likes of Eli Broad and J. Paul Getty as a private museum founder in Los Angeles. On Tuesday, the L.A. City Council approved his plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park, just cross the street from his alma mater, USC.
But as Julia Louis-Dreyfus and fans of “Veep” might have noticed, Lucas’ design for his futuristic museum resembles that of the Selina Meyer Presidential Library, which is notable because both buildings look like (wait for it) a vagina.
In the “Veep” Season 6 finale, Selina (Louis-Dreyfus), having just published her memoir, is shown the design for her long-coveted presidential library to be built on the campus of Yale University, which includes a staircase that shatters the building’s glass ceiling. But two big problems quickly arise: The library is built on the former site of Yale’s slave quarters; and there’s the structure’s aforementioned resemblance to a vagina, which leads to the building to be jokingly called a “Vagi-brary.”
Louis-Dreyfus quickly picked up on the connection when Lucas’ museum got approved Tuesday, and joked about the “Star Wars” creator unwittingly bringing her show’s joke to life. (Compare Selina’s “Vagi-brary” plans in the top photo to a model of Lucas’ museum in the image below.)
You have GOT to be kidding me. That’s my vagibrary! @VeepHBO @DavidHMandel #veep #shameonyale https://t.co/SH0i3tplp2
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) June 27, 2017
“Veep” was renewed for a seventh season last month and will return to HBO in 2018. The Lucas Vagi-brary Museum of Narrative Art will open in 2021.
