>> this is "nightline." a year after 19 were killed gunman. >> reporter: the journey of one victim's family from outrage. >> i get angry, never going to go away until there's accountability and justice. >> reporter: to activist. >> are we not tired of hearing about another tragedy from gun violence, when is enough enough. >> leaning on each other to heal and find a way forward. plus julia louis dreyfus, the tv le her iconic roles in series like veep. >> i'm going to be president

reat ia. inow. >> now on a mission to give middle age women a platform. why are we not hearing from older women and gleaning their wisdom. >> her new rom-com focusing on a woman in a crisis but is it ever okay to lie to your loved ones. >> lies white lies whatever kind of lies you want. just start lying. >> "nightline" will be right back. ♪ whenever heartburn strikes, get fast relief with tums.

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♪ >> good evening and thank you for joining us i'm trevor ault. one of the deadliest school shootings in american history. 19 students and two teachers killed by a gunman in uvalde texas and for the last year an abc news team has been reporting from inside the community. tonight, one family that grief has bent but not broken. here's abc's maria selinas. >> reporter: a smiling face with her family in san antonio last spring, this is how her family remembers tess. grabbing her phone and recording videos every chance she could

get. >> she was a very bright, smart, happy little girl. she was our light. she was, she was our joy. >> we were never going to be bore, you know, with her here. >> my mom already got a notification i'm home. >> reporter: tess the youngest of two daughters adored herbig sister faith. [phone ringing] >> hello. >> are you home. >> yeah. >> reporter: a senior at texas state university in nearby san marcos. she would always look forward to her visits back home. >> we couldn't go a day without telling tess to be quiet. [laughter]. >> it sounds bad but she was just talking so much. she never stopped talking. >> tess was a very spirited kid right she was a talker. >> she was a talker. >> i think when she was first born the doctors said oh, you're going to have a live one on you,

a lively one on you, right. >> uvalde is the only home the family has ever known. jerry and monica went to school at rob elementary as did their girls. and this is where you find them every weekend. >> we're not losers? >> nope, not losers at all. >> reporter: watching their daughters play on the local softball fields first with older sister faith and eventually with the younger tess. >> she loved being here in the field and being with all the little kids her age just talking and playing. >> but since may 24th, when a gunman killed ten year old tess, 18 of her classmates and two teachers at rob elementary this is where these parents spent many of their evenings tending to tess's grave and talking to their daughter about life since

she's been gone. what has it been like without tess in your life. >> i miss her dramatically her laughter and everything. >> there's days where it feels like yesterday. >> reporter: their family allowing us to follow their journey in the year after losing tess finding resilience in each other. when we first met them last summer they were struggling to find answer about why it took law enforcement 77 minutes to confront the killer. >> i get angry, and the angry is never going to go away until there's accountability and justice. you know, somebody has to pay for what they did. >> reporter: reality setting in for their big sister as they prepared to lay tess to rest. >> i think seeing her and seeing that she didn't look like her,

it was like i was looking at, i was looking at someone that wasn't my sister. i was looking at someone that had to be pieced together. and that's when it hit me, and i felt like i couldn't breathe. >> reporter: and learning to breathe, get out of bid, and move forward without tess has been a daily challenge for the family the tragedy hitting every aspect of their lives. veronica is an elementary school teacher and went back to work just a few short months after burying her daughter. >> it's a hard situation i'm in. the only reason i went back this year is because i could not stand to be at home in the

quietness. i'm already lost. if i would have stayed home, i don't know where i would be. there's nobody here. >> reporter: seeking justice for the 21 lives lost. >> is there a number we the people must reach of kids and teachers dying before you decide to do something? >> reporter: the family makes frequent trips to austin texas in washington, dc. faith matha testifying last december in front of a house judiciary sub committee on gun violence. >> are we not tired of hearing the stories of victims families? are we not tired of hearing yet another tragedy because of gun violence? when is enough enough. >> i have two butterflies and

then one big in the middle, one of our family members made it for me so i figured the two butterflies on the side are me and her. >> in her room at her sorority house memories of tess with butter flies remain safe. with her parents in uvalde >> trevor: okay let's go. i worry about them all the time. i feel like the roles have changed, like i'm taking care of them. now it's hard seeing them struggle and go through what they're going through and being able here and not being able to be there to alleviate any of, you know, their pain. i hate coming home because this is the town that failed my sister. this is where my sister passed away and it's not a really good feeling. >> what do i bring to the table. >> you bring your personalities. >> you bring your interjections.

>> reporter: as the year passes, they lean on each other at family gatherings. a mexican celebration for the lives that have passed. at the family home, tess's bedroom remains unchanged. stuffed animals on her bed. >> trevor: and a jar with money she was collecting for a trip to disneyland. a white square was painted on a tree where jerry taught tess how standing right here throwing the ball and she goes i get it dad. i said yeah. but remember, if you hit inside that square that's going to make it even better. you don't want to miss it you

always want to hit it so it can browns right back to you. >> reporter: at least three days a week, jerry drives back to the place he says he feels her presence. the school where she took her last breath. >> it wasn't fair baby girl. it wasn't. it wasn't at all. i know you can hear me, baby. i know you can. hope you're playing softball up there and stuff, baby. show them that you can pitch. remember the curveball that you always wanted to learn? maybe you're already throwing it, huh? got to let me know, you know, that square on the tree's still

there. >> i got it. >> nearly one year after the shooting, faith preparing for her next space in life a bitter sweet moment of accomplished. >> all of our candidates please stand and remain standing. >> reporter: parents a pillar of support. and after watching them walk the stage a tradition unique to texas state university with family watching in their cap and gown signifying a new beginning, holding the hand of tess as she takes the plunge. >> wherever i go, whatever i do, there will always be an angel watching over me. >> the family learning how to

win without tess, tess, surrounding each other in order to move forward together. >> reporter: we thank our entire team in uvalde and the families who allowed us into their lives. for more on our coverage of the uvalde community, go to abc news.com. coming up next, julia louis dreyfus, what the comedy has to say about the lies that we sometimes tell in relationships. ♪ ♪ phil: excuse me? hillary: that wasn't me. narrator: said hillary, who's only taken 347 steps today. 348, 349... hillary: i cycled here. narrator: haha! on an e-bike... speaking of cycles, mary's period is due to start in three days. mary: it is? narrator: and her friend hasn't washed his hands since... monday! yeah, i'd put that back. and then there's bill, whose heart rate rises to 115, nervous i'll mention... bill: my diarrhea? narrator: his chronic night sweats. linda: you sweat more at night than you do at the gym.

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now to the legendary julia louis dreyfus starring in a different type of romantic comey.

it has laughs but poses a serious question, is it ever okay to lie to the most important people in your life. here's "nightline" co-anchor juju chang. >> do you still think honesty is the best policy. >> of course, it has to be at the heart of any meaningful. >> no. >> no? >> let me go again lies are essential to all happiness. >> that's the answer. >> lies, white lies whatever kind of lies you want. just start lying. [laughter]. >> reporter: it's no lie that julia louis dreyfus has always been comedic gold and back at it in a new middle-aged rom-com, "you hurt my feelings". >> what kind of story were you thinking about? >> something in prison. >> oh, all right. and what about a prison interests you? >> jail? >> for sure. >> reporter: julia nabbed a

record-breaking 11 emmy awards. not just as the loveably neurotic elaine in seinfeld. >> i love my fiance the poor baby. >> maybe the dingo ate your baby. >> reporter: but also as the politically neurotic selena meyer in the hbo veep. >> reporter: how have you matured. >> no, i haven't. >> reporter: you haven't matured at all. >> no. >> reporter: still 16. >> totally. >> reporter: but julia says our society tends to sideline older women especially in hollywood. she hopes to shine a brighter light starting a podcast earlier this year calling wiser than me. >> just born out of my own curiosity and desire. why are we not hearing from older women? why are we not gleaning their wisdom. it would be good conversations with older women and they could

sort of give us tidbits on their life experience. her podca featuring 85ear old actor and activist jane fonda. >> one of the things i've learned is i've gotten into serious old age is, when you're inside it as opposed to looking at it from the outside, it's not nearly as scary. >> oh, wow, that's incredible. in you hurt my feelings julia brings visibility no your everyday middle-aged married couple. >> how about that? it's good huh? >> that's really good. >> reporter: playing her husband don in the film, tobias menzies. you really are convincingly married in this, is it improve? >> we're just really good actors. >> yeah. >> reporter: what was it like working with the legend. >> i mean what do you think? amazing. >> he's lying.

>> reporter: that's a good lie, though, right? >> was that the truth. >> reporter: he studied at britain's royal academy and played prince philip in the crown. >> i was not excited the day that i moat the 13 year old princess who would one day become my wife. >> reporter: now playing an american. julia's character beth, an author, gets a bad review from none other than her husband, upending their loving marriage. >> if i did say that you took it out of context. >> are you going to gas light me now. >> one of the devastating lines you deliver in the movie is, i needed your approval. >> i know. >> reporter: that somehow your husband not believing in you. >> yes. >> reporter: is devastating. >> exactly. the way it's crafted, it's almost as if hearing her husband take down her writing and her book in such a horrible way is -- it's almost like an infidelity. it's an emotional earthquake.

so clearly you've had an illustrious career as an actor, do you now not believe your family members they tell you you did a great job. >> you can't help but think about those things in your own life. what i take away is the truth is hard. >> reporter: the hard truth even for her husband struggling with his own insecurities. >> what are you doing? >> this is better. i was tired. >> reporter: what i love is your character's realness in terms of your fear of growing old. usually that's a thing that women worry about. >> yeah. >> reporter: but you visibly and demonstrably worry about it. why is that refreshing. >> i guess because you don't see it as much in out tv and film so to see a guy going through that and his insecurities about getting older and his face is both interesting and also kind of fun why i. >> reporter: he's like i used to be hot. >> i used to be hot. >> reporter: the production with

new york city back drops. >> we're shooting scene, we're out and it happened to be a scene where i was vomiting on the corner. >> oh, god. >> oh. >>no at one point a woman walks into the frame and goes, oh, my god is she all right. >> now that's good acting. >> yeah. julia hopes it will spark conversations about the little white lies we all tell. >> were either of you able to draw from personal experience. >> no, i could not, personal experience fort fatally. >> reporter: your husband thinks everything you do is brilliant. >> no, but he's consider eight and truthful for me for the most part, oh, my god maybe he's no. . my marriage is falling apart. no, i'm kidding. i very much trust my spoke us the way beth did in the movie

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