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Can you hold onto that from it for a second? Thanks so much, don't take it. It's so good. It's you know, any more safe? Yeah? You know, I you know. I picked you for a reason. So listen. Thank you all for coming. This is a big day for us, for I Heart Radio and Warner Brothers Studios, great partners, and I want to thank them all for putting this all together. This is an amazing job that they did. I mean, have you seen all of these locations and have you been in the merch store? It's amazing. Um.

I have a question. Okay, for the I know the girls, this is mostly Gilmore audiences girls. Right, it's Gilmore girls. The audience is women. Whatever demo you look at. Sometimes it's but how many of you guys? Early on in your wife's Gilmore addiction, Okay, have gone honey again, It's like, okay, so let me see show it has all these guys again. Okay. So then you know, and then are at work one day,

guys and you're with your bros. And they're talking about the game and the football game in the baseball game, and you don't know what they're talking about because your wife won't let right right there, you go right and they go, you're listen, Bob, you know Robinson, really boy great blocking the first yard touchdown. And you're like, huh. And all you know about is Suki's baked goods and Jackson's vegetables. Is Luke gonna finally ask Laurel out is

Paris gonna see a psychiatrist? I don't know what's going on? And then one day at work you say, in the midst of one of their baller conversations, you just blurred out, I want Luke to kiss Laurel. And they what did you just say? Hey said, I'm I want Luke because Laurel and then your fellow workers to you, you know what, we feel the same way. Huh. So I want to thank everybody for being such great fans of the show. This podcast is impossible without all of your support. So

I thank you for listening. I know I get a little opinionated. It's just the nature of me. I'm a Jersey guy. I'm just a guy from Jersey with a couple of opinions, and I ain't backing down. Huh. I want to thank my staff too. You know, you know the crack staff. You hear about the crack staff. They're here now. Amy Sugarman didn't believe me that I had a crack staff. She goes, it's just you. You You can't afford to crack staff. I know what we pay you. Uh,

it's a crack staff. Elaine Espinosa is here. There she is pay Jes Spinosa, her daughter, Suzanne French, John French. Thank you all for your help. I couldn't do it without you. What do you think you want to get you sure you want to get started? You guys have to be somewhere. No, okay, let's do this. Thanks so much. You mind if I take a sip This is Scotty Peace Big Mud Coffee. They're selling it over there and they're serving it everywhere. I think you can get a bag.

We there's five hundred bags of it. Bunch your ordered more, Thank you, and here we go. M all right. First, my first guest is a woman you all know and love who played the role of Gypsy. Let's hear it. Let's hear it for the one, the only, the supremely talented, the supremely gifted rolls. How are you? How you doing good to see it? Thanks for coming? Huh Gypsy hugging Luke. Hey, let's do it again. Huh, I get I actually gave I gave her this shirt for Christmas. Great to be here,

Thank you for coming. Isn't this my next guest? My next guest is is somebody that you're going to recognize. He worked in my diner tirelessly. He had to tolerate me every single day, all day and half the night. A guy who was responsible for keeping that diner running. I give you Caesar Aris Alvarado. Welcome, my friend. Huh. You know there's some dishes in the back that need to be clean. They're clean. See, that's how good he is. They're already cleaned. Huh te lucky love. I think we

should all do one ready, Let's do one to three? Nice? Okay? Uh. My final guest is somebody you all no one loves survived Paris all of these years, um, the wonderful and talented Madeleine Lynn Shelley Cole. How's everybody doing. Let's get started. Hi, guys, got little waters there if you need him. So let's start. Thank you, Thank you, so Rose, Let's get started with you. Tell us how this experience has been for you, um, since you first got the role, and are are more

and more people now recognizing you for your role? And does it feel a bit iconic? You know? I feel so lucky to be a member of what I like to call like the Gilmour universe. You know, you were the Nights, the nice this fans. I feel so blessed to meet people that say, I watched it with my mom,

and now my daughter watches it with me. And one time I even met a little girl that said, I watched it with my mom, and she watched it with her mom, and she watched it with her mom and she watched it with her And I was like, you're like Emily, Like, what's the you know, Grandma and Emily and Lorela and Rory. It's just it's very great now

Rory's baby and now Rory's baby. But I'm so I feel so fortunate to be part of this world, and it's it's I don't get I get recognized, but only like in an airport or for some reason, if I'm getting a burger somewhere, like the people who run registers at specifically burger places. Let's go, uh were you gypsy? And then it's very exciting. I love it. I love it, ass How about you? Well, how's this experience been for you? From what's almost twenty three years now, it's been fantastic.

I love the fans. The fans are like they feel like family. Now, these fans, you got um. Every time I meet someone, it's always like they know me but well Caesar and and like, like I said, they're like families, So I treat them as as family too. You know I want them to money from you, Yes, of course, how bout you some st they call you can call you the middle of the night and ask for a ride somewhere and now give it to the airport. Of course,

Caesus there, Shelley, How about you? What's this experience been like for you? How many? How many actual episodes were you in? Episodes? So how how does this feel? How does this feel for you since since the day you started doing it? And by the way, none of these guys, it's really weird have aged a single day, like what's happening?

That's true? Uh? Well god, this is my first job U in two thousand, um, and it's think I started in not the pilot but then episode one and um, and I was there for three years and then two episodes in season four. Um because they were generous enough to bring me back. I mean, we were too stupid to go to Yale, but for real, but it's good. You know, I live in Denver now and I teach acting to kids, and um, it's cool to just be

and thanks for welcoming me back here. This is the first time I've been to the stomping grounds and so so so long. No, it's very emotional, isn't it. You know it looks like butterflies. It's so weird to be back here in in such a lovely way. Thank you all for coming. So how many people have would you say? Have approached you and recognized you sort of like you look familiar. I'm not quite sure. Are you famous? Does that happen to you A long Yeah, it happened. It

happened to me once at the airport. Uh. The security guy who's like looking at my passport, looking up, looking down because I know you. I know you. Wait, my wife's watches you on that show You're that cook. And I was like, oh yes, oh yeah, okay, go ahead, go through, go through. I had this really cool experience

in Denver Um. I was at this little pub and um playing games with my boyfriend and we were having some beers and we were ready to settle up, and they the bar bar mistress came over with my with my ticket and said, it's been taken care of. And I said, and somebody wrote on my receipt, thank you for your service. We love to you on Gilmer Girls And I'm like, well, where are they? And she's like,

they left. They just wanted to Well. It happened to me at jury duty and I really, I really wanted to get out of jury duty and I got you know, they questioned me and can you be fair and impartial? I went, I don't think I can, but I was just kidding around kind of as me partly like gypsy. And the judge actually went, we're going to dismiss miss Abdu and miss ab do please tell Laura like yilmore, we say hello. This older judge, he was like almost in his seventies, and he was like, I'm a big fan.

So I'm I was driving recently across the country, well to get to Colorado. I flew in from Colorado yesterday. But we're taking a family face and we we like to we like to drive. So in Utah, I was going a tad too fast, um, and I got pulled over and I didn't you know, it's it's just this fear response took over, right because and I just was like, god' sorry. You know it's Utah and it's so easy to go a hundred miles an hour here, and I know I

wasn't going that fast. But and he said like all right, And he didn't have a jacket on, which was like twenty degrees out and he had no jacket on and he had short sleeve. So that that's weird. That's weird. He could be an alien, he could be part alien. So um, after you know, he was nice and he knocked it down, and you know, it's probably five dollar traffic school for me. Um. And and so when he left and we started going, my wife looked at me and she goes, why didn't you tell him who you are?

And I said, but you think that would have worked? She goes, it might have. You didn't even take a shot. And I'm not a guy afraid to take a shot. I take a shot, and I just so from now on, I just want everybody to know. I wanted to go on record that I'm gonna use this to get out of traffic tickets maybe in the future, but I never even tried. So I don't even have a story as good as these guys that I'm gonna shut up now. Um,

what's your favorite memory of filming the show? Rose? I think in um, I don't remember the exact episode, but we were in the Miss Patties of course, where all the town meetings were. And you guys need to know that if it was supposed to be freezing cold in the show, it was unbelievably hot in real life, and it was supposed to be unbelievably hot, like Rory's graduation was like June, it was like three degrees here. I

mean really, it was always the opposite. So I remember being Kenny Ortega directed one of the episodes and Sally, by the way, Sally Struthers says hello to all of you. She's in Kansas City doing come blow your horn. I can't get out. I can't get out to do the show. So she just went, I can do a fireman's carry. And she walked up to the director, Kenny Ortega, who some of you know did high school musical and she

picked him up. She picked him up and put him around her like like a little fox stole like she and she spun around with this. He's a regular size man. I mean, he's a man. He's not a right exactly. And she picked him up and spun him around, and I just remember thinking, if I could even be, you know, have one quarter of her, of her energy. Sally Struthers is the strongest human being on planet. Every and some of you might know this, but every every time my

birthday would hit and we'd be in the diner. September eleven, my birthday, and she knew I didn't celebrate it for obvious reasons, and she would pick she would try to make me feel better. She would pick me up, she put she picked me up and I wait, I was going to fifteen at that time. Favorite memory and she picked me up and she my butt would be here in her face and she got it's his birthday, smack him in the take me around to everybody in the crew, in the cast, and they go, did Kenny direct more

than one episode? Shock on his face when she spun him around, I was like, that was my favorite. He did twelve episodes and ten of them were during sweeps, So it's like, I think, uh, sweeps weeks were when the networks really did their ratings measurements and they would that would dictate how much they would charge you advertise it. So they brought in Kenny Ortega for these big episodes, I mean just wonderful episodes. And we're on the podcast.

Weren't season four now, as you well know if you know the podcast, and we just did a big episode with you really you and Jess fixing Jesse's car as he returned. It's like episode twelve or thirty. I thank you for your business and what's the name of it now? Come out into yeah, yeah, see scrolls or something. Something some from some great title. I love saying to him, thank you for your business, do not come again? Great? It was that was your that was your biggest episode,

and it was a tremendous episode for you. Yeah, listen to the podcast because we could. We really really kind of wax poetic over your performance. We really do. Huh. I will tune in now. Thank you. You know, guys are stupid. They stripped their gears, they ride their brakes. Okay, so I'll make an exception. Arras. Tell us about how many episodes you did. Tell tell us about how many

episodes you did uh in in Gilmore Girls. Um, I did twenty one in the original run and in three more in uh the Year in the Life, and I have a couple more in there, but they were they were cut. There's like two to two episodes. They were cut, you know, for time purposes, because you know, we we do a lot on the show. There's a scripts are huge. So yeah, twenty one and three. I gotta tell you.

The thing that I'm marveled at the most was watching Caesar, because Caesar had to be in all of these long diner scenes and he had to deliver the line the one or the one the couple of words, or the one played at the perfect time. Watch those scenes again in the diner. That are long scenes and all this activity and I'm walking all over and saying things and delivering stuff, and he's handing this stuff off perfect timing every time. You know how hard that is to do.

That takes like Tiger Woods type focus. So bravo to you. I mean you, this guy was the wind beneath my wings. Because if, seriously, because if, because if you have a guy there in that role who isn't who's messing up people's timing because they it's like because it's a hard job, and you understand if they can't do it, but if you have a guy constantly doing that, they're getting replaced. And this guy survived. And these were tough scenes to do. They were tough scenes. It was like doing a one

act play. You know, it's like ten we were really working a busy restaurant. It was. It was actual busy restaurant, yes, I mean, and then we had Robert serving people too. At the same time. I'm joining them out the kitchen. You're passing. It's Robert Roberts coming here. It was and consulting with you and working with you. Where's this, Where's that?

I mean, it was always a great experience because you you really just wanted to make sure that the scene popped, you know, because you you there are no such and it wasn't a small role. I don't consider any of these roles small roles. These are important roles. I mean every role. And this is why I wanted to have

these guys on. I wanted to have these guys on because they don't get the recognition and they never got the recognition that's so richly deserved, because their performances are Amy worthy, are Golden Globe worthy, and we just didn't get that kind of uh respect. But there they are sitting there. Uh yeah, Shelley, tell us about, um, your favorite day on set. There's there's a couple. Um. One of them was when we were filming the Bengals episode. Um and and that day when the Bengals were there

and just all of that was really fun. And then every single day on the spring Break episode was we stayed we actually, uh Louise and I Teal and I stayed at the c Sprite uh motel right there on the beach, and we had so much fun every and that that episode was a huge surprise because I never expected to be back at all in season four, and they brought us back for two and that was the last episode, and and I knew it would be like my last episode, and um, it was not bitter sweet.

It was just sweet. It was so wonderful to be um there and we had so much fun. And um, that's one of my favorite like experiences that that's my favorite experience of the springbreak episode on this show. I want to talk about. One of my favorite subjects in the whole world is Milo Ventamelia. You got you got to do some pretty pretty intense scenes with Milo. Tell us what it was like working with him, and and you know who I'm talking about. The guy He never

it never really caught on for him. I feel bad for him, and he's so good looking and he's so talented, but it just it just didn't happen for him anyway. He's a dark haired, uh good looking guy. He was on the show. He played Jess. Okay, so now we're caught up. I just remember he bugged Gypsy so much like Gypsy has no love for Jess, as you well know. So of course, because I'm such a method actor. I

have no love for myla I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I actually I remember saying to him, you really have like a young James Dean quality, and he was like, God, everybody says it to me. I yelled at him. I yelled at him and said, you should be thankful, you should be thankful that that people compare you to James. He was terrific. I mean, he was so I felt like he was so in character all the time. You know,

he really was fantastic. And I love the one where you you come to ask My favorite episode is you come to ask me about the car and that's where that guys are stupid line and I go, no, but he had a bag with him with a dollar sign on it or something like that, right, and that scene, I had to hit nineteen marks to come out on the underneath the car and take the wrench and go over to the thing. And you were so nice to me.

But we really got it done fast. But that was one of those ones, like you said, with him, that could have gone horribly wrong where we really like this cast is so gifted, and really it's like colored tape on there's so much tape on the floor you have and everybody, every character is a different color. So you have to hit your mark because if you're like if you're standing with the wrench here when you should be here, the whole thing has to go do it. It It doesn't

matter how good your performance is. It's like, uh, Scott, you missed your moment about four feet so we're gonna have to go again. Liza and Teel and I used to fight every morning over which color we were going to get. I'm like, I'm one purple today. Yeah, it's hard, but when you rewatch it, don't let that in in pin you. How do you say, interfere with your enjoyment of watching it? But just know that we're all trying to like hit every mark at every moment. Marris, I

have a very serious question for you. I want you to focus. Stay with me now, Okay, this is important. Okay, do you remember what color your tape was? I'm color blank, so I wouldn't remember. Well, Like, color explains a lot. Uh how many times did I ask for catcher and he gave you mustard? What difference does it make? Right? Um?

Favorite scene? If you can remember your favorite scene, Arras, it's it's a bond is the episode Bomb Bomb Boyage and we're all here and saying goodbye to Rory, And it was just special to me because it was like the whole town was here, and I love when there's a gathering of people, like I love superheroes, right, so like superhero movies, all the superheroes get together. That was

a superhero moment. It was all the superheroes from Stars Hollow getting together and saying goodbye to one of their own. I love that, Shelley, What about you favorite moments, favorite moment in the entire series that you did. I can tell you my least favorite moment. Let's let's hear that one time they had they wanted us to make out with these guys against the locker. I don't know what episode it was, anyway, they lined up seven background players and I had to like make out with the sky.

They're like, just pick one. I'm like, are you just pick one for me? That's so embarrassing. I know, that's that's like ouch, yeah, I know. I know. Anytime I could get through that thick like dialogue, tongue twisting paragraph in one or two takes, I'm like, oh, people don't know how many pages. The script was so many, more like a telephone. It's like eighty pages of all black ink dialogue, and usually an hour script is fifty sixty pages with a lot of descriptive passages for the action.

It was like Luke's serving the girls walk in black ink talk. I want to say my least favorite ahead, God you got it. I just remember one episode the town smellted? Did the ill smell like eggs? And then again it smelled like pickles? Which came first? The eggs are the pickles, the eggs, the eggs whenever it smells so Gypsy had the idea, I guess to get our car fresheners, air fresheners and air freshener necklace made out

of trees. So the prop department, which was magnificent, but came at me with actual palm, you know, pine tree air fresheners. Now, have you smelled one? You know how strong it is in your car? Now, string twelve of them on a necklace. And he's like, yeah, you're gonna wear this all day. I go, you're gonna wear this all guy? Like, are you kidding me? I mean, he was like, well, what's the problem. And he couldn't spend. He goes, well, yeah, I I couldn't keep it in

my office. I had to leave the room and I go, how am I gonna wear it all day? Like, there's no way. So I made him go to the copy machine and make fake pine tree things for Gypsy because my eyes were watering. So that was just treat lot of having to wear the tree. It was I'm traumatized by those pine tree air fresheners, the props dudes, tree Chuck, Bob, I just remember those tree Chuck they really were. Uh arras, tell us about what you're working on now, Uh, what's

coming up for you? Well, right now, I'm really happy to be working with um. I'm working with Stan zimmer In, who's a writer on the show, and he's directing the Diary of Ann Frank that we're doing over here at the Colony Theater in Burbank next next month. It's our fifth run of the show. We're doing three shows too, already sold out. One is left on Thursday the nineteen, And it's just it's an important story that needs to be told. And I you know, isn't it an all

Latin cast? Yes, it's all Latin cast. Um, and I'm really excited to be doing it again. We've done it in Vancouver, We've done it several times here, so it's it's just I feel that that story needs to be told. They were very, very happy to be doing it again too for kids. Excellent's brilliant. We have microphones in the audience, and let's turn it over to some questions. Uh, if anybody has a question, my name is NICKI, And what

is your favorite moment, Scott? My favorite, uh, my least favorite moment was any moment I had to spend in the town hall meetings because it was incredibly hot in there, and uh, you know, I run a little hot anyway, so especially in winters. Thank you very much for noticing appreciate that. Um. What I meant was I tend to sweat, and uh, I don't like to be in sort of saunas in sweaters and winter clothing and gloves and hats

and things like that. Favorite moment probably you know. I had so many favorite moments with Laureli, and I had so many favorite moments with Jess. Um. I think with Jess it's the sledgehammer through wall. We'll we'll sing, we'll hold hands and sing songs and make your whatever I say, because it was action and I very rarely got to do anything like, you know, with very little dialogue and just sort of act. Um. And there's a Milo scene where I tell him to leave. I really love that scene.

And the Lord There's so many Lauren Graham scenes that I did. Um. I will tell a story though about the remarkable talent of Lauren Graham. Um. We had a lot of visitors to the set. Okay. We would get people like uh, you know, Hollywood legends would bring their kids and they would be sitting in Video Village and you'd come off the set Lukes Diner, and they when they were shooting in Luke's, they would set up Video Village. All the executives and and Amy and Dan would sit

and the directors and all that right in docs market. Okay, so you come through the door and there would be a legend and you'd be like, huh, you know, and then one day that legend was Brian de Palma. Okay. Brian's a Palm is a very famous and very gifted director going back to uh um, you know, in the seventies.

And so he was sitting there because his daughter is a huge fan of the show, and his daughter was with him, and uh, he sat there and sat there and sat there, and we were all like, God, that's Brian de Palma. Is he gonna cast us in a movie? And she's here to see us and it's like no, no, he's just their first daughter. Um. And late at night, about two o'clock in the morning, he was still hanging in there with his daughter. I think his daughter's name

was is Lola Um. And Lauren had a scene where she's coming into the diners just the two of his this two am. She's got a monologue like that, okay, And so she comes in and does the scene, nails it, and then when you move in for the coverage, you do the you do the wide shot first, and then you move in and do the coverage where it's like well and filmore was only like a cowboy, so it

was from like here up, okay. Brian de Palma was sitting right next to the camera and Lauren had to come in do her whole bit to the camera with Brian de Palmer there, and she went did it twice, was done, and she just went to be Uh, I don't know how I got through that. So that's a testament to how great she was in that role and how great she is, because that's nerve wracking because that's your your entire career right there, potentially a film role

in the in the future. So hats off. Favorite moment, probably the most nerve wracking moment, was probably the kiss, the season four kiss, because we we still wanted to get it right and we knew it was a weighty, weighty moment and in a in a big moment for the show, and we just you know, and we we knew the Kirk thing was coming right, nobody else knew it. We knew it was coming, so we had to really suppress our laughter. But that's that's my lows and hig. Yeah,

I have a question for you, Luke. Where did you ever get emotional like wrapping a year in the life or wrapping Gilmore Girls, or were there moments during um during shooting where you were getting emotional? Well? Sure, yeah, I mean, you know, the Liz stuff as I'm watching it now makes me very emotional because I have a personal experience in that area and I now I remember

doing it. It had the same effect on me and it was very difficult to get through it, um and all of the uh, all of the stuff with uh the moment. There's there's a couple of moments that I remember where I didn't really have to do any kind of sense memory work where I had to think of things to make me sad. It was just the circumstances were enough, you know, And and it's always there was. It was snowing, I'm with the reenactors, and I see

Laureli walking with Max that night. I had to look over look at it, so that that was a big, big moment for me as I recall, hopefully for you guys to Yeah, another question. Hi, my name is Alyssa. UM. I was just wondering, like, what was your last day on set? Like, like, what were your emotions and everything last day? Uh? We well, we didn't know it was gonna be our last day, you mean, so for a year in the life, we we never know when it's gonna be over. It's like it's not ever over. I

mean I was. I was in Toronto shooting a film when I found out the show was over. I thought we were coming back for a season eight because we we were. I was signed for it. I was already signed for it. Everythink. Most people were um uh and you're in the life. I don't. I don't really remember the end of it. Um. I do remember the premier in Westwood, which is a big event like this. I mean, there was so many people, um and it was so great.

What about you, Rose? Do you remember the last day on remember filming the last day of the original series, not the Netflix series, And it was raining, but it wasn't raining. It was fake raining, and it was the most refreshing fake rain. So I just remember standing there and thinking, like, I really hope I see these people again. And then I remember being in New York. What what? How much time passed between the show and then reboot series?

Nine nine years? So nine years later, I'm in a hotel in New York at Christmas time and I get a call guess what we're doing the Net? And that was really exciting because I went, I'm going to see my friends again, and that that was really really special. And you guys keeping it going is just I can't thank you enough, like, give yourselves another round of fun.

It's incredible and and and the great thing about the Netflix thing is we knew we had a finite period of time three and a half months to shoot basically four movies. Hey, uh no sleep but good let's get it done. Um, And we had time to sort of say goodbye if indeed it was going to be the last thing. I know. Now Lauren is saying in the media now that she's gonna sit down with Amy, probably over the holidays, and they're going to discuss the possibility.

And you know it's listen, guys, it's all about schedules and and and so many different schedules have to sort of align. The stars really have to align for something like that to happen. So I'm I'm not letting myself hope too much, but there's always hope, right and and it's and it's a testament to you guys, as as as uh Rose points out. So if it happens, it's because of y'all. Another question, I actually have two questions

for you. The first one is who do you think developed most as a character in the show, And then the other one is who do you think the dad is. I think the person who most developed on the show was was Rory because she started at sixteen and she ended up and well, you know, nine years later, um, but really, you know, that's a show about you know, Rory, Uh, Rory maturing and Rory adapting and Rory going off to college and Rory at college. I mean, for me, that's

what the show is about. As I'm watching it, and everybody else is supporting, and I think, I think what Lauren does is she's the best. She's the best comedian as a character in a show I've ever seen that's in a drama, that's in a dramedy, you know what I'm saying. And Rory is the best straight woman you could possibly have because you could see her skills because she wasn't an actor when she got the role. But

amazingly enough, that's how naturally gifted she is. Uh and at eighteen years old at an n y U film school, never acted a day in her life, she gets this huge role, a massive role. She must have been overwhelmed, right with the amount of work she had to do. She pulled it off beautifully, and Lauren helped her a lot. Lauren really guided her and helped her a lot. So she kind of really raised Alexis as well on set

as a professional. So it's it's quite charming to think of it in those terms and that's how I like to think of it. Um. There was another side to that question. I'm sorry, who do you think the dad is? Gosh, that's I don't I don't know Kirk Is it Kirk? It could it could be Iris, could be Iris. You never know? What do you think? I wonder what? What do you guys think? Good Jess? You want it to be Jess, but you think it's Jess Chess. I don't know who it is you want? Do you want to be?

How many things? It's Dean? No? Many? How many things? How many things? Slogan? Alright there, okay, so there you go. How many think it's R two D two? How many? Okay? Alright, alright another question please? Um, well sorry for Scott. Uh. First the comment that Luke Danes you helped me to forge a stronger connection with my dad, um and to

understand him better. So thank you. Uh. Secondly, I wish the spinoff that was planned and then canceled first hadn't been canceled, and secondly had been about you and Jess. Luke and Jess. But the question, um, there was a really strong family resemblance between Luke and Jess as far as body language speech, mannerisms, all these things. How much of that was scripted? And how much of that was the two of you working together? Very little of it

is scripted. Um, they sort of suggest, there's a nice so are we supposed to dance down the dance show very Christmas? Very Christmas. I meant that. I didn't see that in the memo, but I guess, uh, yeah, you know, you know, we get together and rehearsal. I'm sorry, where is the person located that? And so we get together and rehearsal, and we spend a great deal of time

in rehearsal sort of working it out. But then when they say action, you just sort of your body naturally takes over because you're you know, you're in the skin of the character. Um. So yeah, all the little subtleties and nuances, uh sort of you know, they're they're just going to come out because the writing is so good, right, it allows you the freedom to behave Okay, so so

acting as all behavior. It's not really words, but the words are so good that they force you to behave in a certain way when you say them, if that makes any sense. So that's that's that, and and thank you so much for your your very kind words about reconnecting with your father. Um. You know, as time goes on, I'm beginning to realize a little bit what an influence

this character has had on certain people. And they come up to me in airports, and they come up to me in restaurants and they and they say the nicest thing. So I really really appreciate that, and it's very nice, and I think for all of us to know we've been a part of something that's historic and that is actually helping to heal uh family wounds and family divisions in certain cases. So thank you for your question. Next question, Hi,

I'm sorry, I'm really nervous. Um, thank you guys for everything. I grew up with Rory's special Um luke in a vineyard, Valentine, you brought up the idea of a looping. At the end of season six, you turned lower, laid down. I care to explain. I think I fell and hit my head that day, and I think that I just was out of my mind. Um, I haven't in season six, I haven't gotten there yet. I haven't seen the episodes.

I'm a middle middle of season four. Um, but I'm sure that there's a logical reason there's a circumstantial reason why I turned her down. Uh uh, And I can almost remember saying those words. I don't remember the scene. Um. But the thing about Amy and Dan's writing is, uh, they go big when things are small. They go small when things you think are going to be big. And it seems like the opposite happens when you think it's the other thing should happen. And that's kind of the

beauty of it. It kind of shocks people, and it kind of keeps like huh, but it's all there's there's there's a real emotional logic to everything. Um. So I'm gonna defend myself and says there's a really good reason. I don't know what it is, Thanks very much. Another question, two things, So how many times did you push Jess into the lake? And then what's your favorite Kirker Taylor moment? I pushed Jess once. Um, we did actually thirty three takes on the Walk and Talk before that, Okay, So

I really was very frustrated with that. So, I mean, and I told him, I said, we're gonna get this right in one because I want to go to lunch. And that was all about hunger. Um, and I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What was the second question? What's your favorite tailor or Kirk moment? Oh, there's so many. I mean, that's just a pot of gold. That's like working with Seawan Gunn and Michael Winter's that's just so many g

eight moments you're gonna have with those guys. Um. The hot dog suit was classic because it's just it's just him inside, you know, and you know, anybody inside a hot dog suit is gonna elicit a response. But but Sean Gunn inside of a hot dog suit. And I think one of the great physical comic actors of our time and should get more credit than he does, um, and more recognition, and maybe that will come to him one day. It looks like it probably will. He's having

a nice career, isn't it. Um Uh. And Michael Winter is just you know, every sort of confrontation we had because he's such a seasoned actor. You know, he's so tempered, and he's so contained, and he's and and and very intense and smooth. I mean, it's just and he's just a very pleasant guy, uh to work with. So it's just it's hard to pick one. Maybe the candy store thing and where he's you know, I'm I'm doing that kind of thing. So just so many great moments with

the those guys. Yeah, okay, this one is for Scott Um. You just you're such a good actor. So the look on your face, I feel like, is what really shows how Luke is feeling. But to get into character, what did you have to think of to portray so much emotion and love for Loreley, especially in moments where like when she told you that she slept with Christopher and you just look absolutely devastated because I really love her.

You know, I really love Lauren, you know, Um, and I respect her and I and I love the amount of work that she's able to do and the support she gives everybody. And you know, she was the heart and soul of the show. Um, and you know, we sat back and watched her just power her way through every single day and it wasn't easy, man. I mean the workload on her was just herculean. I mean, it's

a superhero kind of stuff. I have a favorite Lauren moment. Um. We were filming the Bengals episode and um, we were those two guys who played kind of like just like guys that that Madeline and we's kind of run off with and they're in their apartment, and so those actors were there and Melissa and we were all there and it was so late and one of the guy's phones went off, one of the guys that we met at the Bengals concert, and then what his phone went off

in his pocket and just started ringing right in the middle of a take, and he was like, oh my god, I'm just co starring for He felt horrible, and the whole crew was like, oh, so tired, Laura, and like approach she just goes happens to the best of us. Yes, she had that ability to put everybody at ease, no matter who you were on the set, no matter what number on the call sheet you were. She she really was a great number one on a show. We were very lucky that she was in that role. Um and man,

what what a what a tennis partner to have. I mean, you're you're over the other side of the net is like, Wow, She's hitting all these great shots cheese and you're like, okay, you know what I mean. I mean, it wasn't she wonderful? Just just absolutely breathtakingly wonderful every single day. Next question oh, Hi. First down, I'd like to say, Scott, I've spoken with you before, and you're actually the nicest person I've ever talked to. Um. My question is for any of you.

I'm just wondering what actors on the show you think are most like their character? Good question, Liza, Yes, I kidding, that's fine. She's a lot like that. That's a version of her that truly exists. Well, Liz list, she's miss Patty. Yeah, I think I think Sally is. But she's an exaggerated that's an exaggerated but that's her. But it's so exaggerating she but she does have all that joy and light and life. And I mean, Mila, do you think he has that kind of darkness? Milo? He's a little dark,

right Milo is Jess? I think I think he's very similar to Jess. Yeah, I I you know what, I agree with you. I agree with you because because there is a darkness there, there's a little bit of a something real interesting there. Right. Alexis is not there not a lot like her character. I don't think she's really lively and fun. She likes like underground music and one time she asked me to go to drive. What is that van drive dashboard whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I'm like, okay,

it's like two hours away. I guess if it's bigs to you, man, they you should go what do? What do you think? Arish who is most like? I'm around her and it's like a story, a story. She's you know, so lively and she makes you happy. Yeah, this is amazing, you know, I don't think. I don't think. Uh, Kelly Bishop was nothing like her character, right, she was very far away from that, right. She was just so she was kind of gentle and she is and she's loose

and fun funny. Yeah, that was what my favorite. I have to say. I don't think I mentioned my favorite episode. My least favorite was, for sure those stupid air freshener trees, but my favorite probably was finally getting to come inside James Pettitt, the man who put this together Warner Brothers. I've known this guy twenty two years. He's been a superstar at Warner Brothers and in my career. This guy's

helped me so much. Thank you, James. This is this is like the guy here, Okay, the guy that's the guy. Apparently I'm getting a s unburned. But you've known each other twenty two years. But you're still only in your thirties, So how's it? You know, when you were a kids. But I love getting to do the Bachelor bachelorette party. Emily's bachelorette party. That was one of my favorite because I got to hang out with Kelly and then it seemed familiar to me to get to work for her

in the Netflix show when I was Berta. It was so much fun. And I said, maybe, like Emily fired every made, but Berta seemed sort of familiar to her because she already met one of Berta's cousins, which was maybe Gypsies. And I think, I think Melissa is a lot. I mean Melyssa was. Melissa was so funny and so personable all of the time. Um. Every time I would see her on set and we had only one episode together, she I would see your crop service or something or

table read. She always had such an interest like what are you cooking these days? And how are you all that stuff? Amazing personality and amazing talent. Um, god who else? And Lauren I think you know, Lauren is just a really smart, funny, witty, engaging personality, you know. Um, And so I think she just kind of she didn't breathe through the role, and she has this capacity to memorize dialogue. We're we're all sweating in our trailers, going We're gonna

doing it over and over again. She's like kind of like, Yeah, here's the script. What do I need to memorize? Just throw the script past my eyes. Okay, got it, let's go. Kind of weird. Next question, Hi, guys, thank you so much for coming to this event. This is so cool. Thank you. My mom and I love the show. Um. My question is for Scott. What was it like meeting the cast for the very first time. I flew to Toronto to do a guest spot in the Pilot and Uh, I was in a track suit for the flight, A

nice track suit. Um and um. The airline lost my luggage and the the person at the front USK said, there, some of the cast is waiting for you across the street in a five star French restaurant and I'm in a track suit. I said, I don't think I can go to that restaurant. You no, No, it's okay. They'll let you in. Um. And they let me in. They were great. And so I met Lauren first and she was delightful, and we had a um a sit down and a drink and and and Keiko was there too,

so I got to meet Lauren and Keiko. First. We all smoked cigarettes at that time. Uh and uh, here's here's the story with that. Our first day on set. Here day day one. Okay, we're going through half the day. We're smoking cigarettes. And I said, I gotta quit. I'm not going to be able to do this dialogue. And I said to Lauren, I said, we gotta quit because there's no way we have the breath to do this. So we quit, and then Keiko quit. We all quit. The gift that keeps on giving this show is amazing,

you know. Next question, Hi, I love you. I'm seventeen and I've seen Gilmore Girls over thirty times, so I love you all. I wanted to ask if you have any theater experience and what advice you have for aspiring actors. I want to go into theater, and all of you are my idols, so I wanted to see what you think. Thank you very lovely, thank you so much. My advice to you would be to study Shakespeare if you want to be a serious theater actor. You're seventeen. Dive into

Juliet Romeo and Juliet nail it. Um. Everything's easy after that. Pretty much, Shakespeare is going to be your best teacher that you ever have. You just memorize the dialogue. There's a real emotional logic to it. It's easier to memorize than you realize as you're memorizing it. It's chunk after chunk after chunk after chunk. But it you remember it, it gets inside of you. Um ibsen uh Sam Shepard.

All the great players do O'Neill do a theater of the absurd, you know, all the different styles of acting. Get an m f A in acting, be an acting nerd Um. Don't do it because you want to be famous or rich. Do it because you love to to do research and you love to read history, and you want to you want to put on the skin of that character. That's the thing that people cast. They don't cast people because they want to be famous. They cast people because they're great at what they do. So it's

a skill set. Acquire a set of skills. You can get the best skills from the best writers. Okay, so do that. The first play I ever did was Buried Child, Sam Shepherd, Yeah, twenty years old. Sam Shepherd's my favorite play right right, He's genius, absolute genius. Um. Next question, I thank you all so much for being here. I love the all more girls. But it's just like crazy. Um. I was wondering, Scott, I already know your answer to this. But what team are you guys on? Team just Team Logan,

Team Dean. And I'm gonna add Tristan because I was really sad when he left the show. Uh. I'm you know, I sticking with family A team Jess always end forever. I'm actually on team Jared Paddicky because I don't know indeed, well, just because he is such a like he did Supernatural and he struggles with depression really badly, and he's talked so openly about it and somebody who teaches kids, I think it's so important to normalize that stuff. You know.

I'm very brave, very brave, and I'm on team Jared. You know. I I just reconnected what I do conventions that I meet fans, and I just reconnected with him at a convention. He's such a beautiful guy and and and and and it's so so vulnerable and so loving and he really is a very very sweet guy, and I thought, you know, and marveling at his skill as

an eighteen year old. High. There's the entertainment tonight, and there's that's the Wall Street Journal up there right now, Sorry, New York Times, Wall Street General High guys, Um, who do you think Team Jazz? Team Jazz. I did my first scene as Caesar with him, so I gotta stay loyal team Dean for sure. You know I'm good with all. I'm family. Sure. Yeah, thanks for your question. Next question, there's a little boy over here who's had a question

for a long time. Here. Can we get him a microphone? Yeah? My question is, if you had one chance, what thing would you change it bout your character? Good question, Um question, I think more comfortable shoes. Being serious about that, I wouldn't wear boots every day where the really comfortable sneakers. As silly as that is. Um No, but seriously, UM, I don't know if I would get to Laurelize sooner, um,

because I think the way they did it was brilliant. Uh. You gotta milk that cow as long as you can because if you know, and I'm not saying this to insult anybody, but if you give the fans what they want, they're gonna go away, right um Um, but not ultimately. I don't mean it ultimately. I mean to to ramp things up. Uh. It's an interesting question. I've never heard a question that insightful before. So good for you. I just think he was so here's the thing that and

I just saw this. I think less revealing and I think the the he You're gonna disagree with me, but the vulnerability he showed with his sister Liz, I would have shown less, and I think it would have been right for the character. I think at that point there's you pretty much can't go wrong with the character. Um. But I didn't want to show that much. But thank you for your question. Okay, let's we're gonna have to do one more question. Okay, hi Um, I love you

all very much, Thank you for coming. Um. My question is for everybody, which, besides Luke is your favorite boyfriend for Lorlie, besides Luis, besides Luke all right, besides Luke, Max for sure, Max, Max for sure? For me, this is a big question for Er. She's been thinking about this a lot. How man, I'm gonna go with Max. Also, Max's Yeah, Max for sure, bad, right, Max Max, that's three Max three three, that's three. Um. I like I like Digger because he's he's kind of wacky and and

they're right together. But they're they're really wrong for each other because they're too similar. They're just too similar. So I'm gonna say Max, Yeah, that's four maxes Yeah. Yeah, all right, guys, let's do one more question. They're they're walking around with microphones. Yeah, because she's responsible and he Now, Hi, I'm over here. Hi, my name's Himena. UM. I just want to say thanks. That super cool to see you, guys. I grew up watching this show since I was a child.

Shout out send your reader Rodriguez. Okay, thank you. Um So my question is for all of you, um, if you could have been cast for any other role on the show, what what role would it have been? I love that question because I originally auditioned to play Suki

years ago, and they switched casting directors. But in the beginning, and I sculpt miniature food out of clay, and I told them I don't cook, but I do know how to make miniature food, and then the casting directors got so into my sculptures that was all they wanted to talk about, so I didn't. I didn't see and no

one could have and Suki better than Melissa. So I'm glad it worked out the way it did, But it was a couple of years later because I'm not in the first season, so I feel like if I was going to do anybody else, I would want to be

Emily or Gypsy. That's the weird thing about that Suki role because it was originally Alex Borstein who's on My Zell now and Drell of The Hard Player, and you just at the time when we heard Fox wouldn't let her out of her contract for a living color so she can't do the role she did in the pilot, and you're thinking, how are they going to replace her? And oh, that's gonna hurt the show, and boys she and then Melissa shows up and it's like, whoa, oh, Kirk,

that's a that's such a fun role. I would I would love to be Kirk, except on the day where you have to wear the hot Dogs suit in a hundred ten degrees and barbank in September. Yeah, besides Madeline

because I loved playing her. Um, I think Suki or Milo, you know, character you know, I'm I'm gonna say logan, uh, because it's just it seemed like such a fun role to play, you know, because you know, I just I just want to be in that kind of shape where I'm sitting back in a bed, you know, with them up to here anything all right when you come on over here, just like this guy. And and you know, Matt is the coolest, greatest, most soulful giving guy. Um,

he's the genuine article. And I'm so happy for all his his success. And we we talked to him on the podcast a little bit. This guy. You wouldn't believe the reactions this guy gets. Man, I mean, it's unbelievable. He is loved and so your your love for him is well placed. Sure you didn't need me to tell

you that. We just did a play uh stands and Merman's play uh right before I go suicide Awareness and one of our stops was I think Delaware or one of his where his hometown is a little town, his hometown and right before we um took the stage, they've played a video of him talking saying, hey, thanks for coming to this very important play, um, and this is my hometown. And he just he introduced the play via video and everyone just loves he He's great, He's great,

He's the best. Guys. Thank you so much. I think does everybody know the words to jingle bells? Here we go, ready and a Wuanna and jingle bells the way? Oh what fun to open? Hey, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way? Oh what fun it is to ride and one oh say? Thank you everybody, the best fans on planet Earth. Love you guys. Thank you so much for all of your support and thanks for showing up today. I want to thank my wonderful guest Shelley called Aris

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