With the revival just a few months away, star Lauren Graham reveals in an all-new interview what the show’s true “underlying message’ is and it’s all about girl power!” “I just felt like that’s so quintessentially [show creator] Amy and Lorelai”, she said.
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“You’ve been stuffed in a glorified tin can for seven hours surrounded by people with consumption and diphtheria, scabies, hummus dips, rabid dogs and drugged up children attacking your seat and stealing your change”, she says. Still, Rory’s got bigger fish to fry, she noted, and holds dreams that extend beyond the ideal wedding dress or ceremony.
Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life is on Netflix from November 25. Dean? Logan? How would everyone deal with Edward Herrmann’s death? I loved how everything was teed up in the first three and I, carrying the burden of everybody in my mind, was like, ‘Oh God, what’s going to happen?’ And to me, it was deeply satisfying-and also it answered questions I didn’t even think of. “I was wondering what she had accomplished in her career”.
While Lorelai and daughter are discussing a flight during the first episode back, Lorelai pokes fun at her daughter’s glowing look after being on an airplane and says, “Admit it”. “I was on page 7 or 8 when I remembered: Of course, this is that inviting town where everything is so familiar”.
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Though it feels like it has always been with us, Gwyneth Paltrow’s oft-mocked Web site, Goop, didn’t actually launch until the fall of 2008-more than a year after Gilmore Girls poured its last cup of coffee. Then, after an exquisite Les Miserábles reference, Lorelai adds (we’ll assume accusingly), “You should look drawn and blotchy. Which is lucky – because I had to the next day”.
