This content is an interview with actress Lauren Graham discussing her return to the role of Lorelai Gilmore for the Netflix revival "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life," reflecting on the experience, the show's legacy, and her career.
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hi everyone welcome to the envelopes
Emmy Contender series I'm Ivon villal
and today we're talking to Lauren Graham
our favorite fast talking mom laurelai
from Gilmore Girls she reprised her role
for Netflix's Revival of the series to
the Delight of fans everywhere and we'll
be taking your questions as well so
shoot them over in our comment section I
was really trying to go for like saying
it as fast as Laura Li but I can't do it
that was pretty fast how do you do it I
don't know I have spoken about this
before but I think when you're uh when
you're performing a really great piece
of writing it kind of tells you I
wouldn't I I remember during that time
when when I was first doing the show I'd
go on auditions for something else and
inevitably they'd say tell her she
doesn't have to talk that fast I was
like I know I know this is only for this
this is what I do here but you know I do
I'm sort of Speedy I guess in my
de demeanor whatever but um but I
there's a kind of a joy and a um it's
ins it's it that language does something
to you you know it it it's really in
invigorating did you did you have to
learn like when to take your
breaths or it just sort of came
naturally I don't know I mean the show
evolved so much if you go back to watch
the pilot it wasn't at that pace and
then I would say for the first year or
two it was sort of mainly my character
or the the banter between Laura and Rory
and then eventually the entire town just
took the same uh amount of coffee I
guess and um so it definitely requires
more preparation than most TV uh I I
liken it more to theater it's it you've
long speeches long sentences that
require some kind of uh you know
sculpting and um and and you have to be
prepared it's it's not there are some
shows and some scenes you can learn
right then and kind of keep them fresh
this requires um preparation and it's
not fun to in in addition to all the
other things that tend to go on in a
scene we do a lot of wers and so you
don't want to be the reason we have to
go you know 25 more times so um you
defin definitely have to show up knowing
your lines what's it like to sort of be
on the other side of it now like for so
many years you guys were asked about
whether this show would ever come back
would you be open to it a movie
something and to now have some time
where this has been out there what has
that been like um it's really wonderful
and a little Bittersweet you know it was
fun in some ways to have that question
out there because what if you know what
if we could what if we did um what would
that feel like what would that be and I
I it was such an incredible joyous rush
to do it um to be back to see the people
to have a greater sense of what this has
meant to me in my life in my career to
just be able to feel thankful and um and
enjoy it you know so that was one of
it's just was the most fun time I ever
had so if that's the last fun time I'll
ever have I will be bummed out um so
it's been hard actually since then to
look at other material and and imagine
that it will meet that bar you know and
it's that's always been a challenge I
mean that character and that writing
that creat you know Amy Sherman Paladino
we we I just kind of have a great
connection and a real similar taste and
you know you need it's like finding a a
partner in life you know that's person
who I've created so much with
it's I I don't know who my next work
husband's going to be um and it's he he
or she is hard to find yeah do you still
have that email from 2014 where she said
she was thinking of pitching to
streaming s oh yeah oh yeah like you're
going to frame that or give it to thei
or something well the problem is there
were so many conversations and and it
had so many possibilities and I was just
thinking today you know there was
another conversation years AO ago when
um she was in Earnest trying to get it
made as a as a movie a feature film and
um it's just you know one thing that's
interesting when I look back at the
history of the show is
is
how we continued to rise through a
certain amount of being underestimated
you know the the feature film never
happened because Amy was told it just
wasn't a wide enough audience it's women
you know it's really just young women
they don't go to the movie
and I know I know and it's it's hard
because the show is so happy and it does
appeal to to young people and and
families and stuff but I think in that
there's always been a certain amount of of
of
um you know it hasn't people are always
surprised when they see it to to to uh
see how smart the writing is and um how
complex the characters are it is in sort
of a fairy tale land but that's
deceptive I think you know there's so
much more to it so
um yeah so I miss
it you can never delete that email no no
no no no but now what do I it's it's
just the thing of what now what email am
I going to never delete waiting for the
next Yeah well yeah I haven't finished
enjoying you know the fact that we got
to do it yeah at any point either in all
that talk or the process of shooting did
you ever think to
yourself I don't know if this is a good
idea idea like should we be doing this
was there ever m i of course worried
about how it would be perceived I
worried about I remember sitting in some
meeting before we started and somebody
said you know I love the show but you
know 40 minutes with commercial
Interruption you can kind of reset your
brain to get ready to hear that much
dialogue again you know 90 minutes is
that can people handle it and and I knew
no matter what we did some somebody was
going to feel it wasn't what they wanted
or they wanted more or less or of
whatever and I've you know I'm used to
that as an actor
um none of that is kind of where I can
live and still do a good job you know
everybody criticizes every you know
everything but to me it felt like the
show grown up as it had to we couldn't
have gone back and done CW ready
episodes you know it had to feel bigger
and it had to a little bit be have some
depth and sadness and darkness because
that's what you need in a story of that
length and and it was true to where we
what we were where we were yeah and I
remember talking to John Stamos ahead of
Fuller House coming back and he was
saying you know I grappled with it
because for so long I was trying to shed
Uncle Jesse get people to see me as
someone else but then I was like I'm in
this is the guy that put me on the map
like how could I not come back to him
yeah like how would you say you felt the
same way for a period of I need to show
I'm more than laurelai but I also want
to I loved playing her too I think it
was the perfect amount of time to have
had all those thoughts and to have
nothing but uh gratitude and happiness
to get to do it again I when we finished
the show the first time so much was
confusing you know we we didn't have Amy
and Dan we I think Alexis and I had had
worked at a level for an amount of time
that we weren't
sure how we felt about
continuing and and I remember
feeling if I stayed and the show kind of went
went
downhill I was more afraid of that at
that point and I was whatever I was
maybe just turned 40 or something and
and and I had that kind of ambition and
I I better you know time is clock is
ticking I better get out there and then
I got out there and I did you know a
couple of movies that were fun I don't
know it's I I did this Broadway show
that was sort of successful I I sort of
had these other experiences that I
thought were what I wanted and
and
and things you know to varying degrees
measured up or didn't and I thought oh
it's very difficult to be in something
and understand what it is at the at the
time in a acting career you maybe get
one or two
of you know roles that you're proud of
and the world has changed so greatly you
do something it stays around forever I
mean it can get replaced by the next
thing but I think the first time I
realized that was when I got pulled over
to First beating one time and the and
and the he was like in the Press R me a
ticket and then he goes hey Bad Santa
and I was like yeah and he goes go ahead
I was like wow so it has its upside and
its downside to be known for things um
and I didn't get that then you know I
didn't get that once you do something it
sort of stays around and thank goodness
it's something I like this much I was
hoping you're going to say Caroline in
the city or something
my fave still waiting for that reboot oh
my gosh that was also my favorite too
because I look back at that I was so
ignorant of how Show Business worked I
walked in I did a funny voice I was
still in like drama school in my mind
you know I was like I'm I'm just going
to talk like I don't know I just feel
like she's and they were all like what
are you doing and yet it was fine but
just the kind of Bravery I had then to
kind of create characters and I didn't
you know I wasn't going to get a job
that was how I went and now now I go
into things like you
know Lisa kudro up for it well then
never mind or whatever it is you know so
I think you have to really appreciate
each time you're in for what it is you
know how was it being back on that set
cuz I remember when I was on the set for
the Revival I was like oh my God yeah
and I wanted to take pictures of
everything yeah but you couldn't but
right I know so they were so worried
about about secrecy and privacy and but
how it did a feeling wash over you oh
gosh yeah I mean the other difference
now is I'm just did a different time of
of um of understanding what I got to do
I I was so in the mindset
of succeeding and and being driven in my
career I wasn't thinking about
about
how how lucky I was and now I do I think
about about it all the time
and so there was a much greater
emotional sense you know back then I was
like okay I got this job I'm doing this
I got to learn these lines blah I got to
do this talk show or whatever and this
time it was probably oppressive to those
around me because I was like I just want
to say Taylor doy thank you so much you
know and he was like what I was like I
but I just I really appreciated each of
our players you know and and and the
fact that we got to be there again and
and uh and
walking on any of those
sets was I was nervous too which I don't
remember being back in the day that
first table read I was shaking you know
I thought I thought what if it comes out
of my mouth and it it's everything's
gone you know something there was some
kind of worry that what if I couldn't
connect to it again or something and
then and then I did um but it was really
emotional which set were you most
excited to is it once
again well there are just ones that
bring back these memories you know um I
would say the most memorable
scenes I had were in my parents house
you know around that dinner table and
it's memorable both for what happened
there and also how long they took or
whatever you know Ed Herman would be
like they got to get me out by 11: so we
got to go and um and and I even playing
that character the first time walking
into that house always made me feel like
a child again you know and and and the
fact that they had reconstructed the
house differently just slightly
differently things I remembered oh you
got to take a sharp corner here because
the camera can't see you you know just
technical things were were different so
the same but different and I I wrote
about this in my book but also you know
you'd walk out and there's the Ellen
stage that's not where that used to be
back then you know so it was a very
strange thing because they replicated it
all so well Luke's too you know there's
a lot of memories in Luke's the town
hall always hot in there always always
I'm always you know but but that's what
I mean about appreciating somebody like
Michael Winters you know he gives these
long speeches and I don't know it was
just really a blast I would have tried
taking that dinner room table home
dining room table uh I got a dragonfly
ins sign you heard it here first I
didn't ask permission for that one is it
hung up somewhere it's it's huge so it's
in our garage but it's it's it's
something that greets me when I come
home at the at the end of the day so
well when you start your in you can just
repurpose it can you imagine Laurel lize dragonfly
