Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel’s upcoming joint appearance at the 2025 Emmy Awards will be their first reunion in eight years.
Graham, 58, and Bledel, 43, stepped out for a joint outing at Deadline’s “The Contenders” panel in April 2017, where they discussed their costarring turn on The WB’s Gilmore Girls and Netflix’s Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life revival.
“From the moment I read the pilot, I felt so connected to Amy Sherman-Palladino’s voice as a writer,” Graham said at the time. “It was so invigorating and fulfilling to do that work. In terms of an actor, I would never tire of that. Now it has become, ‘What can we do that is satisfying, and worth continuing and gratifying to the people who care so much about it?’”
Graham starred as Lorelai Gilmore on all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, a show which chronicled her character’s tight-knit bond with daughter Rory Gilmore (Bledel). The show followed Rory’s journey from high school, college and beyond with Lorelai by her side.
The show — also starring Kelly Bishop, Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Jared Padalecki, Milo Ventimiglia and the late Edward Hermann — returned for a four-part revival in 2016.
“I’m definitely more grateful. It’s like a chance to have a do-over. You never really get that in life,” Bledel said of revisiting her role in a 2016 interview with Glamour. “To get to reimagine the same character eight years later, it’s kind of great, creatively. You get to take all the things that you find interesting about the character and then hopefully inject that with whatever you picked up along the way personally.”
She continued, “Rory has grown up, and I would say she is less idyllic now. [She’s] maybe been worn down by various challenges she has had to face in her adult life, but underneath her weariness she still has a streak of winning positivity that maybe was instilled during her small town upbringing, as well as a hardworking, can-do attitude.”
While Lorelai ended up marrying longtime love Luke Danes (Patterson) in A Year in the Life, Rory’s love life was left in the air. She had an affair with ex-boyfriend Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry) and a brief fling with an unknown man wearing a Star Wars Wookiee costume before learning she was pregnant. The four-part miniseries concluded without revealing the paternity of Rory’s child.
“Amy and [her husband and fellow executive producer] Dan [Palladino] told me who the father of the baby was, and they said, ‘Yeah, you can tell whoever you want,’” Czuchry, 48, exclusively told Us Weekly in 2021. “I never have because that’s for them to say. Ultimately this is Amy and Dan’s show and it’s Lauren show and it’s Alexis’ show. It’s not mine. For me, it doesn’t feel like the right place to say who it may or may not be.”
Read the full article here
