peppahwood‘I’m choosing the outfit for the first time you see Lorelai, and I keep fussing over what it should be. Whatever we chose already just doesn’t seem right to me for some reason, so I ask for more choices. “Just bring a bunch of tops and let me mess around a little.” […] I keep trying things on and nothing feels right. A knock on my door tells me the cameras are ready, so I pull a blue blouse off its hanger—when in doubt, it’s blue!
At the end of the day, [my on-set dresser] knocks on my trailer door. She has a funny look on her face. “I want to show you something,” she says. “I swear I didn’t see this before.”
She hands me a small piece of cardboard, and for a moment it doesn’t quite compute. “What is this?” I ask her.
“It’s the tag from the shirt you wore this morning,” she says. “I cut it off earlier, but I didn’t look at it until just now.” I glance at the tag again, and this time I gasp.
Okay, the spelling of the name is one letter off. But the shirt has a name. And it’s my character’s name. And it’s not just called “The Lorelei,” which would be coincidence enough, but it’s called “The Lorelei Two”! And it’s our very first day, and it’s the second time I’m playing Lorelai! […] I wonder if I’ve fallen into some sort of magical fairy omen land. At the very least, I take it as an incredible sign of good things to come. I tape it up on the wall over the sink in my trailer, to remind me every day that strange and wonderful magic might be in store.’ - Lauren Graham in Talking As Fast As I Can
amusementforme@thelaurengraham: Happy Birthday, @alexisbledel! Here we are back in the aughts looking sassy. xxxxxL
