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In my continuous search for news about Gilmore Girls, I sometimes come across unusual finds. Today, I bring you a couple of Gilmore Girls-pieces I fell in love with!! One is a craft that you can also do, the other is a piece of fan art, and both are inspired from the same episode of the series: You Jump, I Jump, Jack.
First up, a Rory inspired figurine:
This next is a creative by SixSix8:
Following my own two-part interview with David Sutcliffe (Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls), We Love Soaps also had an interview series with him. The third part, in particular, is all about Gilmore Girls.
David talks about how it was to work through some of Christopher’s more difficult scenes as well as giving us some insight into who he thought the character to be.
WE LOVE SOAPS TV: In season seven of the show there was a climatic nonverbal scene between you and Scott Patterson. Christopher and Luke battled it in the Town Square in a very tragic, yet comedic scene. What was that like?
David Sutcliffe: It was fun. They wanted a real intense fight. They did cut it down much shorter than how it was originally written. It was quite a battle. It was like working on an action show. We had stunt coordinators in there, we were all padded up. Scott is a big strong guy, and an athlete. I’m a big strong guy, and an athlete, so we were having a ball with that. We wanted to get into it.
It was also interesting because Scott and I were friendly, but we knew what our roles were on the show. There was a subtle rivalry between us, not as people, but as our characters. The opportunity to play that out in the fight was satisfying for both of us. Ultimately it bonded us. I think Scott would say the same thing. I always say that fighting is intimacy. I’ve always said to women who ask me about wrestling that wrestling is intimacy. That is often the way men express their affection toward each other.
David also talks about any unfinished developments in Christopher’s character at the end of the series. And, of course, he addresses the question of a Gilmore Girls movie. Although he feels the question is up to Amy Sherman-Palladino, he’d be all in!
It would be fun. I love those girls, I love all the people on that show. When you’re in the middle of something, creating 22 episodes a year, and you are there 14-15 hours a day, it’s so difficult to have perspective on what it is you are accomplishing and how special it is. I remember to both Lauren and Alexis, “You’re going to someday look back on this and realize ‘holy shit, we really did something here.’ But it will take some time.” I think that feeling might be the thing that allows them the space to consider making a movie.
After tweeting with David Sutcliffe (Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls) about his project, Group, (Go support it!) he was kind enough to agree to an interview. He answered a series of questions via his video blog – here’s Part 1 of the 2-part interview!
GilmoreNews.com – Did you always want to pursue acting? Tell us a little about your journey into this field
David: I did not always want to pursue acting. I grew up as a jock: I was a hockey player then a basketball player. That was really my identity. I was asked to audition for a school play in high school, because I was good at reading aloud in class, Shakespeare and that kind of thing, so there was some recognition of some potential for talent… I said no, of course, as a jock and ‘we don’t do theatre.’ Secretly, I wanted to do it. I went to the play and watched it and had some excitement and some fantasies around ‘Maybe I could do that…”
Finally, when I got to college, the opportunity presented itself. I got injured while playing for the basketball team and I was living with a playwright and he asked me to audition for his play and I did. And that was it.
How did you get casted for your role as Christopher on Gilmore Girls?
I just went in for a general audition. I remember getting the sides (the script, the audition scenes) and feeling like I had a pretty good handle on it. I worked really hard at it. The show, at the time, was still new, in its first season, but there was a little bit of buzz about it. People were talking about it, writing about it, because the writing was so good. I could see that. The writing was really strong, so it was fun to play with. [Read more...]
George R.R. Martin, author of the Game of Thrones recently was interviewed about show endings, following a bit of an online scuffle over his comments on the series finale of Lost. In the interview, he mentions some of the shows that messed up their final seasons… including Gilmore Girls:
“One show that flubbed its ending in almost every important way, in my view, is ‘Gilmore Girls.’ The show’s creator left before the final season of ‘GG’ and the new person brought in to mop up during that last year just didn’t have a good feel for the characters or their world, and after spending six seasons with the people of Star’s Hollow, the final season was a trainwreck on a character level. A fairly decent series finale wasn’t enough to remove the bad taste that the rest of that unfortunate season had left. Very little of what transpired was true to the vision I’d watched for the first six years of the show.”
None of these ideas are new, though they are well put. What do you think?
During this week’s American Idol performance, the top 6 performed songs by legend Carole King. Contestant Lauren Alaina performed “Where You Lead I Will Follow,” a song I’m sure you all know from Gilmore Girls – the theme song!
For comparison, here’s the Gilmore Girls version of “Where You Lead”:
How did you like Lauren Alaina’s rendition?
As of right now, Gilmore Girls is trending on Twitter.
This means that, right now there are a TON of people searching the term “Gilmore Girls” on twitter – so many that Twitter has identified it as a hot topic. Pretty cool, no?
Digging back through the tweets, it’s not clear why the trend started happening, but it’s clear that people are THRILLED that it did. It started a lot of people talking about how much they love the show and how much they want a Gilmore Girls movie.
Spread the Gilmore Girls love! If a movie happens, it will be because of moments like these :)
Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls) was recently interviewed about the potential of a Gilmore Girls movie, doing a lot to keep our hope alive:
“There are always discussions – It’s something that I’ve always been open to. I think it’s something that if it’s done in the right way could be really wonderful. I email with Amy [Sherman-Palladino] and all the cast. I think it’s a conversation. It’s harder and harder to make a movie anymore, but I think there has been discussion about it.”
Which is great news for all of us Gilmore Girls fans! Let’s keep that discussion going!
Lauren also talks about what the show means to people:
“It’s something that I’m proud of, in terms of what it has meant to girls who are now grown up and have had a bonding experience over the show. I’m so into the thing that I’m doing in when I’m in it that I don’t think about what then happens. Only now do I get all those DVDs and all those reruns, and for me it was ‘Laverne & Shirley’. It might be a show that has a little resonance beyond the time that it was actually on. I just love those people.”
The rest of the interview is about Parenthood.
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