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Cappuccino · 06-20-2007, 03:21 AM

Thanks to Nadine on the LG board

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Movie, what movie?
Who wants to talk about Evan Almighty when Lauren Graham is willing to dish on The Gilmore Girls

BOB STRAUSS

Special to The Globe and Mail

June 20, 2007

LOS ANGELES -- Lauren Graham is starring in Evan Almighty, one of the most anticipated comedies of the summer. (She plays the wife of Steve Carell's latter-day Noah.) But all anyone wants to talk about is life after The Gilmore Girls. The beloved series about single mother Lorelai (Graham) and only child Rory (Alexis Bledel) just wrapped its seventh and last season, leaving many of the show's fans inconsolable.

Graham, her long frame casually attired in new jeans and a ruffled, white top, commiserates. "Like anything, people who are fans of something feel sad when it's gone. It's like a person; if you have a beloved show and you've been loyal to it, it's like a team and you want it to be loyal to you. I think people felt like they didn't have the, you know, ceremony about it. That would've been nice."

The last episode of the program, cancelled at the end of the season, did have a summing-up quality to it: Rory graduated from Yale and got a going-away party from the whole town as she headed out to become a political correspondent, while Lorelai and Luke (Scott Patterson) finally got back together. Had they had more warning that the end was coming, however, Graham assures us that something a little more special would have occurred.

But nothing very special, like lesser series do to boost ratings. "It's not that I didn't want to give fans anything they wanted," says Graham, 40. "I've just seen series end with a wedding so many times, and I didn't want it all tied up that neatly. Because the show is not an event-y show; it was quieter and smaller than that, [it was] about these little moments. What happened with Luke - that's what should have happened."

Of course, talk of a Gilmore reunion movie began even before the last episode aired. At the moment, Graham doesn't even want to think about it. "It's not that I'd had enough," she says. "It was a very difficult show to do in terms of production. It stressed the two of us working a lot, and there was no way to do it any differently. The language meant that days were always long, the scenes were long. No matter how smoothly everything ran, there was no easy way to do it. Not that something has to be easy, but this show was a particular kind of bear."

And there's been no rest yet. Graham is already making a movie opposite Matthew Perry (with whom the unattached actress was once romantically linked) and is scheduled to go right into another one as soon as that's finished.

"I've only been home for, like, two weeks since the show ended," Graham says. "I still have boxes in the garage from the dressing room that I haven't unpacked. So, in many ways, I really don't know what the show being over feels like yet because I just kind of went to work.

"I'm really glad about that. I thought my biggest problem was going to be, 'How do I fill my days?' "

Guess we should say something about the movie at hand. Any messages worth taking from the biblically inspired Evan Almighty?

"Just sort of, be kind and believe in love and all that kind of stuff," Graham, sounding so Lorelai, shrugs. click