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~"She isn't just some girl. Not to me." -Cappie
~"Because for some odd reason, you are the one she is supposed to be with. It's the end of the world Cappie, what are you going to do?" - Ashleigh

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Originally Posted by the_strawberry_girl (View Post) A Lauren event in the Washington DC area! Washington West Film Festival Presents: In Conversation with Lauren Graham

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After sharing the story of her career path onstage — which includes the original run and recent revival of Gilmore Girls, and the sharper-edged but similarly beloved series Parenthood — Graham told THR as she charts her next moves she’s enjoying opportunities like the Summit to exchange ideas with other women in the industry. “It sounds really super sappy, but I'm just in a time where my basic feelings are extreme gratitude for what I've been able to experience, and less interest in myself and more in others,” Graham said. “I've been in show business for 20 years. It doesn't feel that different to me, in terms of how and to what degree women are represented. So let's keep working on it!” Graham said she’s also reached a point in her professional life where she’s encountering more and more young women in the industry who found inspiration in her work, or in the character of Lorelei Gilmore. “It was fairly unique for that time. We still had the first Murphy Brown getting in trouble for having a child with no marriage – it wasn't that long ago! It means a lot to me that the show was inspiring and that it kind of lives on. It's something that never occurred to me, just the way it never occurred to me making Bad Santa it would be on every Christmas, re-haunting my father.” The actress said that because it remains challenging to find worthwhile roles for women of her own age, she hopes connecting with the incoming generation of creators will keep her in tune with the evolving landscape as she looks for a career second act similar to “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and her current triumphs with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. “There aren't more 50-year-old women on television than there were when I was growing up,” she said. “I understand much better where an Amy Sherman-Palladino is, and look how long it even took her to find her second big shot. She wasn't not trying to get stories told during that time between the two shows…I think the best I can do from where I sit is to connect with younger people. That's kind of what I'm trying to do.” Graham’s also increasingly pursuing writing opportunities after recently crafting a novel and a memoir — she’s currently writing a screenplay adaptation for Warner Bros. and has TV pilots in the works — but that’s neither a means to create material for herself to act in nor a move away from performing. “It makes me really upset when people are like, ‘Oh you're transitioning.’ I'm like, ‘No, I'm not. Why would I be transitioning?’ Because I can do these two things. They are two sides of the same coin.”

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Because She watched Herself on Television for Us

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Originally Posted by Laurenislove (View Post) Tony Hale is moderating the event in Washington btw.

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Because She watched Herself on Television for Us