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
dragonfly
in gram Graham's making an appearance
maybe she'll cook your pancakes that'll
be my next 10 years well and you were
writing your book in the process talk
about you know just what that even
looked like were you just constantly
yes I was we had an ad a couple of them
but but I for some reason you know
they'd call me and I like say this is my
computer and i' just like leave it right
there and he'd be like this is making me
crazy you you need this and he'd like
push it back and I'd always it just
didn't even become a computer after a
while it was just like that extension of
my hand and I'd be like shoving it under
couches and behind pillows and stuff I
mean I've always done well under
pressure I I arguably do better
tragically for me and and I had this
idea to do this book of essays and then
when the show was actually happening
that brought the deadline up and
originally the show wasn't going to come
out until the first week of January so I
had until then and then it was Christmas
so I had until then and then it was
Thanksgiving and so it was it was really
really crazy
um did it make it harder to like
appreciate the moments you were having
or no it's honestly that's what doing
the original felt like I mean we worked
the most ridiculous hours and you know
we were shooting on film it was just a
different time um
and so I I I can do that you know I can
work a really long day and also still
back then it was probably more I'd be
reading something or just something to
to try to you know fill the time between
setups but um there's a kind of
concentration you can have when when
there really is no choice but to but to
do your work um that was kind of I don't
I don't need to live that way every day
but it was I don't know it just kind of
part of the magic of that time well and
I know Amy and D Dan had like just piles
and piles of index cards of what they
were mapping out um talk about what your
conversations with them were like about
the journey Laura Li was going to be
taking in these installments you know
know I really trusted them with it I we talked
talked
about we talked about wild you know she
kept saying to me but this is Amy she's
very uh for some reason the word that
comes to me is like scrapbook which is
not what I mean she does not scrapbook
but she sort of says one thing and then
leaves you with it for a minute and she
just kept saying have you read wild I
was like yeah I told you why are you
keep asking me this and so that was
something and then we talked about you
know if Luke and Laura I were going to
end up
together in the original show I had I
felt very strongly that it shouldn't be
a wedding it shouldn't be a
traditional and then they walked down
the aisle and everything because I feel
a sense of responsibility
to our people you know to yes the show
is a fantasy in many ways
but it's also such an original piece and
and these characters are so interesting
and original I just didn't think they do
they you know what's a different way for
two people to be happy together and um
and I loved what it was somebody said to
me G it was you know a wedding like
isn't that too you know do we really
want that for them and I I felt you did
after all that after all that time and
after this journey and and and and that
the fact is it it was a Stars Hollow
wedding it wasn't it was fairy lights
and dancing girls and and kind of a a
dream sequence almost like you'd have in
a musical and so that made complete
sense to me um and I was very concerned
about how we were going to address Ed
and um and his passing and it made sense
to me you know I had just finished
Parenthood where we lost our patriarch
in that story still recovering from that
me too yeah but the this show is has
always presented these and yes it's in
fun language or you know this wacky town
or whatever but it it really presents
these iconic moments in in particular
women's lives I think um and how they
deal with them you know I know some
people wanted Rory to be more of a like
slam dunk success at the beginning it
made sense to me she's just in her early
30s she hasn't quite found you know
she's been she hasn't quite found her
feet underneath her and so it all just
made sense to me and Kelly sort of gave
a a talk right about Herman before you
guys started shooting or like a she
gathered everyone round or
something cuz that F the the painting oh
my gosh it was just but feel his
presence oh my go gosh well the first
day we walked onto that set was really
rough uh all of us together cuz Kelly
also had she had been there for the
first couple weeks they put all her
stuff together so we'd been working and
and maybe Alexis and I had maybe I don't
even think we' had a scene in there I
think we all came in the day saw the big
painting sat you know it was
emotional and Kelly had been a very
close friend of his close to the family
um and she just kind of took a moment
and she
said Ed we know you're here
we love you you know she just said
something and she said let us know let
us know if you you know if you want to
say hello or something like that and
that day um like a light went out in the
middle of the scene and she said thanks
Ed so that so you know it was she's just
such a special person in in my life and
and um and yeah the stuff we got to
address together as those characters was
felt really gratifying as well yeah cuz
what was it like to see Emily's journey
in this process too I mean I think she
she's just like never been better I mean
she's so fantastic and and I always talk
about one of one of the things I really
admire about her as an actor is her
restraint she doesn't need you to like
Emily and thusly we like adore her you
know she doesn't she shows a little
window here and there of of what you
know that vulnerability might might be
and and so this was just something you
know that gave her all these other
colors she's wearing we in my jeans
she's giving away the you know the the
furniture um what was it like seeing
Kelly in the jeans I mean hilarious
first of all she's the only person in
the universe who's like she's aged 10
years and lost 20 pounds and and like
she's such a tiny little you know
Powerhouse and uh I've literally in life
never seen her wear jeans so the whole
thing was just hilarious and also she
just still had her same you know she
wasn't like she just still had her same
like she could have in pearls or my
concert T-shirt it's just that's she's
still Emily and so it was just really
fun well cuz so often you know when we
talk about Gilma girls we talk about the
relationship between Laura light and
Rory but some of the the most striking
moments from the Revival where the
scenes between Laura and Emily um
particularly starting off with that
kitchen fight scene yeah and what was
you know just talk about exploring that
and did it feel like it was you in that
moment or did it feel like it was low
Le honestly they've overlapped at this
point to a confusing degree but it also
that whole sequence of getting drunk at
the Wake waking up climbing over the guy
in the wheelchair giving this horrible
wrong memory
speech that is
completely so the worst thing I could
possibly say
um it it
it it just felt like places we hadn't
gotten to go before and um and and I
think again in in terms of what I love
about the show it makes more sense to me
that I'm having Laura is having a
conflict with her mom then her daughter
her and her daughter now have basically
worked things out and and and can truly
be friends without um you know without
me feeling like I need to take care of
her it's really that relationship
between Lura and Emily that needed more
attention and more healing um because
now they're now they have they just have
each other they've gotten a lot closer
in the midst of all that and how about
like the therapy scenes where for like
some of the few moments we have some
silence in the GMA Girls World which is
a rarity too but acting alongside her in those
moments well it's so many
things because what we haven't seen
those characters do very much is speak
their inner monologue you know and and
that's where laurelai has gotten stuck
you know she never really to me the what
year in the life is about is this is
what happens if you don't grow up you
know if
you if you stay in one place and and
that's why in the musical you know and
Sutton Foster sings that unbreakable
song I think it it pivots her on this
journey because she's looking at in a
way someone
who is admitting you know we're all
vulnerable you you you're not you can't
do this by yourself this this life you
know and I think to a certain
degree she hasn't you know she just
hasn't grown up and hasn't accepted this
man in her life really not really you
know and and hasn't kind of made peace
with her mother and it just sends that
whole um Journey going but yes the stuff
with Kelly was just could have I wish it
I wish I wish we were in a scene right
now I just couldn't get enough of it
such a rich relationship and and I do
and Amy has said this in other press so
I'm not telling Tales but you know it's
really about her and her
mom uh and and something they did
together and you know so it's very
personal and and that's that's what this
whole show felt like to me it was it was
the old show but it even more personal
and more um you know emotional for us
all could you just sense like how happy
Amy was to be back in it yeah when I was
there it was like you could see like
like she was running around but you
could see how happy she was that's how I
felt as well and and it also I think for
our relationship and and and maybe even
how she
perceives you know working with actors
we were I was you know I'd worked a
couple years but I was newish and she
had never done a one-hour show before
and we had more of a traditional kind of
Boss employee relationship it would
never have occurred to me to I mean I I
asked her about certain things but it
was very much her vision and this time
really felt like we were a company like
a theater company or something and we we
discussed things in a more um peer to
peer kind of way and it was made it more
fun and I said you know this is so much
fun to really
feel um a sense of you know because I do
feel a sense of ownership of that
experience that character and and that
we could kind of you know be working
together like that and she said we
should have always done it like this you
know it was just we both had we both had
a same vision you know for for what we
wanted to make and it was really fun to
um to just communicate about it when you
got to do something new too with
laurelai and that in the fall
installment you know when she's going
out trying to have her own wild
adventure she gives this like she calls
up Emily to give this anecdote of which
what she hoped she had said all along
about her dad um was that invigorating
for you and talk about like is this
something you pushed for with Amy like I
want something like this no no no but
she had me remembered um what I had what
we had discussed in the original show
was just some of the ways our you know
that her writing was different than than
most TV and I said you know you should
write just a really long speech you
should I I don't even know what the
longest monologue in in television is
but this
world again this sort of heightened
slightly theatrical world could could
you could have that you know could
have I wondered if that would be fun for
her to to really just write a you know a
long monologue and and she kept saying
this is another thing because I didn't
read fall for the longest time I think
the idea I want it to end I didn't want
it to end what if what if it wasn't
exactly what I wanted it to be you know
because there were so many sort of balls
in the air and that episode was going to
really bring them home and I really was
afraid of it and um she kept saying
remember when we used to talk about that
monologue idea you know and and what
would justify it and what would what
what could make that Mak sense you know
she's like it's you're you're going to
do that and I was I was afraid of that
too and then and then when I you know
read it tears I I mean I baled through
the whole the whole
episode but what I love about it is is
it's really just a girl having a a
memory of
being younger and and just a small kind
of it wasn't like and then we went you
know it was a tiny little thing her dad
had done for her it meant so much and
and it really is to me what what I love
I've always loved about the show the
writing the idea it's these little tiny
things that that mean so much and it's
you know nothing happens
um I was describing the show to somebody
when I was before I'd done it and they
were like wait do you fight crime I was
like what no we're just people we just
and and whoever it was was like that's
never going to last you can't have that
on TV like literally thought we had to
fight crime because otherwise which by
the way a wonderful idea mother daughter
crime Fighters um but so the challenge
with that speech in particular with the
show in general with that in particular
is it meant so much to me it it it was
the answer to this that you know awful
story from the beginning and and I knew
we're outside we're in Malibu I just
didn't want to grind it down and and and
and have to do it many times which meant
I had to be Rock Solid prepared which
was had its own downside because I just
did there was nothing about it that I
wanted to um get stale you know and I
did something I'd never done before
which is just in a flat no motion way I
I recorded it I recorded just the words
and and I would play it in the car oh
wow um just so it was in my you know
mind if I if we were in New York I don't
think I would have had to do that
because you can spend time with I just
wanted to spend time with it as much as
I could so that when we got there it
could just be free you know there's a
there's a
um terrible thing that can happen at
times when you want to be the most open
where your body just goes no thanks I
really don't want to go there and so I
was I just had all kinds of I was done
this long enough now that I was ready
for whatever but my Hope
was just to have it you know do it a
couple times and and be done and that's
and that's what happened because it also
because it was one take take yeah
there's nothing I mean you can cut to
Emily's side of the phone but for my
purposes it's it's one one take and
um yeah well in that same script you we
finally get those four words yeah which
everyone's real Satisfied by and happy
about so were you like hesitant to turn
the page you had they were never written
down um they were not on any page and in
fact there was a dummy scene that 95% of
our people thought was
um where what were the words there it
was Rory's on a train and she and and
she looks up and you don't and she
smiles or something and you don't see
who she
sees somebody says
something but it still had a cliffhanger
kind of aspect to it and I remember
somebody in wardrobe being like well and
then we you know we have to do that Rory
train scene and I was like you guys it's
not a SC it's not the real you know and
it was so that was funny and then and
then you know she never told me the
words I didn't know what they were until
we were halfway through shooting and she
told me were you like huh yeah I said
wait what she said yeah it's blah blah
blah blah I still can't even say it I've
been so like traumatized and I was like
ha it like it sort of like made sense
the longer I thought about it do you
still are you fine with it or are you
like I didn't wanted something else for
her or what you know I'm so in it I I
just really try not to judge it at all
it it it all felt great to me I I was
more concerned with I think she wanted
it to feel this like this sort of
suspended moment like you don't know
what happens next my instinct was to
have a bigger reaction you know of Joy
or it it it just something about
the you know film making of it was just
what she wanted it to be which is which
is kind of and then you know screen goes
black or whatever and people go what so
but you know I think I think the the
part of what's smart about that
is I don't know or what I like about it
better is I like that better than and
then you'll never hear from any of these
people ever again I I think there's an
open-endedness yeah and for something
that even if it's dissatisfying to some
people it keeps the characters alive and
I I think that's that's smart how many
times did you guys do that scene say
those words or say the words uh that had
a couple more pieces to it but you know that
that
wasn't and and of course the way these
things always work you're not doing it
on the last day you know it was in the
middle of my family was there it was
like it was around my birthday um so you
know those things that that everybody
else is waiting for probably aren't our
biggest days you know it's like
but it was everybody had to sign a
non-disclosure and you know that was
really the fear was given the world we
live in now we just didn't want things
to get out you know before people had a
chance to see the show and now how often
are you asked who's the baby
daddy I am asked I never have an answer
I um you know but is that like the
central question I I think they know who
it is I I just go with the w because why
not I like that um we're going to take a
few questions um you mentioned Amy
Sherman Paladino took improv of yours
during a year in the life was it I don't
know I I would have to watch the show
which as everyone knows is going to take
me another decade but I it was in my
house and it's I'm walking from the
kitchen to the living room and it's a
part of a list of things I will have
this answer for you the next time we're
here I don't know
any any word on another season no I
think if there was word we would have
heard that word by now you don't have
any emails none okay and in fact you
know she's on her she's on Mrs mayelle
and pouring herself into any chance of
you going on that I said to her there's
a character that I sort of do in the I
don't know I haven't seen enough of the
they're still making the show I love
that time period in New York and there's
a it sort of goes back to Carolina in
the city your favorite show um
there's this thing it's from like a um
Judy holiday movie Amy has me do it for
her for fun it's like it's this
character and she's a New Yorker but she
you know it's like she has me say I
think it's in the show hoay for The
Goldbergs is that in the show um but so
she's like and that's you know you could
be that like I'm a cigarette girl at
like a some I mean if I did that show I
would want to to do something of the
time and do something quite different
than you know I don't want to just be
rocking in like hey guys uh anybody got
a coffee uh you know like I can't but I
but we need to make it happen in some
way I just love any like time period New
York I'm you know you're there yeah
would you rather live in Stars Hollow
with the gilmores or Berkeley with the
Braverman guys come on um I mean
Stars Hollow seems like I seem more fun
there I feel like my my wardrobe is
louder the coffee is free uh I know
everybody so star H St when are we going
to get the Parenthood I don't know
nothing no no emails on that either no
emails um people are really really
bummed out about Linda from HR oh can
you like put it on YouTube for us or
something I don't I don't think legally
I can I I haven't seen that either um I
heard it's really good it was always
quite an ambitious premise and kind of
cable and you know pilot season is like
a very intense dating game it's like if
it's not love at first sight for both
people right it's okay it's okay you
know it but what I really love is I got
to do something pretty different and and
um and it was a great idea you know it's
just I can see why on a network you'd
feel like it's one of those shows you
really have to have seen the episode
before and so it was worth a try maybe
some other time we're going to we're
going to end with a lightning round be
ready Channel your inner lower lie okay
last show you binge
watched uh the Americans but I well feud
feud feud yeah what not handmade sale no
I'm saving it all yeah what show that
you love would you want to sit and watch
someone else enjoy for the first
time um well I've done this I have more
movies than shows with Broadcast News a
couple times I showed that to May for
the first time and some of the some of
the 80s movies that were really
important to me are very fun to show if
you could go back and be on any classic
show what would it
be I
mean friends friends probably yeah what
genre would you like to
try uh you know now I'm
gonna I really just want to be doing
half hour comedy now in television and
and I at some point would really love to
do a play again of of any kind but for
some reason like this because I've
gotten to do so much in the Contemporary
space I'm really drawn to you know I was
really I loved Feud so much and I loved
Downtown Abby like I'm very drawn to to
things not of this time for some Walter
White or Tony
Soprano to do what with
um I like this followup whatever you
want I mean you've got so many
complications in both cases I don't know
s Tony I I don't know I don't know I
need more information what was your
first acting job and what did you learn
from it that you're still using now well
my first paid acting job was crazily
enough playing a pregnant teenager in a
Planned Parenthood um training video
where they um they were it was a very
mild thing but it was sort of how to
counsel a young girl who comes in and
and is pregnant I was wearing my
Stepmother's like maternity dress and
um and you know I I don't know what I
learned from that
uh pillows don't look real as a
pregnancy stomach I mean um you know I
I some of my other first professional
work was as an apprentice at a summer
Theater which is you know like painting
fences and cleaning bathrooms and then
like being like you know in the
background of Oklahoma and and I
remember someone saying you know do
every job like you're getting paid you
know like you're getting like what you
deserve or or or better you know and
that um that got me through a lot of
pretty crummy unpaid jobs I was like
pretend just pretend that note let me
pretend um thanks so much for joining us
here and Lauren thanks for coming by if
you want to check out more of our Emmy
chats head over to La times.com thanks
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