21 hours Ago By Carly Thomas
Lauren Graham has revealed which Gilmore Girls storyline she wasn’t the biggest fan of during her time on the dramedy. The actress who played the beloved Lorelai Gilmore on the hit show, which ran for seven seasons from 2000-07, was the latest guest on the Call Her Daddy podcast . At one point, host Alex Cooper asked which storyline from the series “was a little hard for you to get behind.
” “There’s a year when Alexis [Bledel] and I — Rory and Lorelai — are in a fight for a long time and we would talk about it, and Amy [Sherman-Palladino, creator] was like, ‘You know you can’t do a show for this long and not have conflict,'” Graham recalled. “I forget even what the conflict was but it went on for a while, and that’s the one that I would hear from people that they didn’t like.” The show’s most significant conflict happened when Rory told her mother that she would be dropping out of Yale University after the aspiring journalist’s confidence was shattered by her boyfriend’s father, Mitchum Huntzberger (Gregg Henry).
The newspaper titan basically told Rory during her internship at one of his local papers that he doesn’t think she’s cut out for the industry. During their fallout, which spanned from season five into season six, Rory lived at her grandparents Richard (Edward Herrmann) and Emily Gilmore’s (Kelly Bishop) house, while Lorelai grew her relationship with Luke (Scott Patterson). Elsewhere during her Call Her Daddy interview, Graham revealed that she dated some of her character’s onscreen love interests in real life.
“Yes, and dating is a real big word for some of the experiences,” she quipped to Cooper. “But you know, you’re there 14, 15 hours. Who else are you going to meet?” Though she didn’t name which co-stars, Lorelai has several romantic partners throughout Gilmore Girls , including Christopher Hayden (David Sutcliffe), Max Medina (Scott Cohen), Jason Stiles (Chris Eigeman), Alex Lesman (Billy Burke) and Peyton Sanders (Jon Hamm).
Her most notable onscreen romance was with Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), however, Graham confirmed he wasn’t one of the mystery men. The Z-Suite star later opened up about what it was like constantly being asked about her dating life as a public figure while filming the dramedy. “It always feels weird to be asked, and many times I was lying because it such a strange thing to talk about — which I still mainly don’t talk about,” Graham admitted.
“[Dating is] something that you don’t know what’s going to happen. I think some people are built for it, some people don’t find it personally vulnerable. And it was also, I have to say, it wasn’t my focus at the time, so it felt strange.
Like, I’m a working person and I’m in a career and I don’t know. It just was odd.” Gilmore Girls centered around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.
The cast later reunited nearly a decade after the finale of the original show for a miniseries, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life , which premiered in 2016..
