Name: Alexis Bledel
Age: 29
Neighborhood: Brooklyn
Occupation: Actress. She’ll be appearing Off Broadway in Love, Loss, and What I Wore at the Westside Theatre starting today, January 12, through February 13.

Who’s your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
John Lennon. When I think about all the things that were going on in this city during the nine years he lived here, there’s an energy that stands out having to do with the message of peace he so powerfully sent out into the world.

What’s the best meal you’ve eaten in New York?
Brick-oven pizza. So delicious, charred crisp and light, just with garlic, ricotta cheese, and fresh basil at Lucali, or olive oil, arugula, and prosciutto at Otto. John’s of Bleecker Street … everything on the menu is good. Roberta’s is also amazing.

In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I pretend to be someone else, taking part in a collaborative storytelling endeavor.

What was your first job in New York?
A shoot for Seventeen magazine, when I was 14. It was a hair-and-makeup piece, and I ended up with a rather peculiar set of stringy dreadlocks.

Continue reading…

Alexis and Gilmore Girls co-star, Lauren Graham got together in February for Entertainment Weekly‘s Reunion issue.

Read more..

I haven’t updated in a while, since I had no access to internet, but now I do and there’s not much going on with Alexis at the moment besides the release of The Good Guy late last month.
I have found a bunch of videos from the junket and have made a mini collection below (there are a couple more which I’ll post next time). There is also another video here which I isn’t embed.

I have also changed our twitter background and have completed all events from 2003 in the gallery, which you can have a look here. Don’t forget to follow us and help us get to 200 followers!

Alexis has done many interviews to promote The Good Guy. I only have space to post the first few, but you can continue reading them at their sites.

The first one is from Popeater. Alexis talks about The Conspirator, NYU & her Sisterhood co-stars.

Would you bring back Rory and do a ‘Gilmore Girls’ movie?
I don’t know. I was really happy with the way they wrapped up the series in the finale and I thought they brought the story full circle. It was very satisfying for me. I don’t know what the story would be, but I would be curious to find out what it would be.

How come I never saw any photos of you drunk in clubs? How did you avoid the pitfalls?
Fatigue. I was working so many hours on that show. We worked really long hours, and I moved to LA without knowing anyone so the people you saw on the show were the people I knew. There wasn’t much clubbing going on.

Read more…

In this next one, Alexis talks to The Wall Street Journal about a possible Gilmroe Girls movie and about herself.

The Wall Street Journal: In Post Grad, your character moves to New York for her boyfriend, and in The Good Guy, she ends up staying for him, potentially abandoning a great career move. Why?
In Post Grad my character Ryden can be a career woman and she can have a relationship, but she’s been inconsiderate. She realizes she loves [Zach Gilford's character] at that point in her life and needs to go explore that further. Beth, my character in “The Good Guy,” is romantic and because she has this ideal, I think that has her feeling sort of trapped. I think it depends on whether women have it all.

OK, here’s an example. Taylor Swift has been getting some backlash recently because she mostly writes about waiting for true love at 15. Whereas, Beyonce, at that age, was writing about owning her own house and being independent. Do you think the two can be reconciled?
I think everyone wants to be swept away. It kind of dampens the fun and emotion of [being in love] to think about the realistic repercussions about what their life might do to alter yours. It’s good to walk a fine line. When you’re a 15 year-old you don’t really know yet. Taylor Swift and Beyonce are two different artists with two different priorities. And it’s good for girls to have both as examples.

Read more…

There is also one last one from AZ Central which is fairly long. It was taken from the press junket. Read it here

Alexis recently talked to Parade.com about The Good Guy. Read the interview below.

Love isn’t always a many splendored thing.
“The Good Guy does start out with my character having this kind of ideal fantasy of romance that I think we’re encouraged to have in movies — you know, those sweeping generalizations about the power of love and how fantastic it can be. But she gets a wake-up call that kind of brings that down to Earth. Being in love is such a complex thing because when a girl falls for a guy she wants to be swept away and doesn’t want to have to think about all the realistic possibilities. But you have to walk the line and be ready to make mistakes in relationships.”

She’s made some herself.
“Sure I have. I think everybody is disappointed sometimes. I think everyone has a different perspective, a different point of view in terms of what they’re looking for. I try to just be in tune with what is right for me. Sometimes you’re right about a guy, and sometimes you’re wrong. It’s like Vegas kind of. But that’s real life.”

And so is her safe-sex love scene.
“We almost never see people dealing with a condom in a romantic moment, even though it’s a reality. I wonder why that is. I liked that scene because it sets a realistic tone. It’s not about embarrassment, but like the awkwardness that happens, especially if you’re with a guy for the first time. Actually, there are a lot of little moments in The Good Guy that felt sort of more realistic than your average romantic story.”

… read more »

During the The Good Guy press junket last week, Alexis talked to Teen Hollywood. Read the article below. Alexis also talks about her upcoming project, The Conspirator. Warning: there are some spoilers here.
There’s only 2 more days until The Good Guy is in cinemas!

Q: Tommy and Daniel are almost polar opposites as guy types. Why do you think Beth originally goes for Tommy?
Alexis: At the beginning she has a pretty clear idea in her head about what she’s looking for in a man. I think when she meets Tommy he’s got everything she’s looking for and she’s really happy about that and she’s falling for him. But she can’t quite see (the real) him because of this ideal that she has.
So when she meets Daniel he’s probably got none of the things that she’s looking for. At first she doesn’t know what to make of him. I don’t think she meets a lot of guys like him so I think she’s really curious and as they develop a friendship she can’t figure him out. She wants to know more and that’s kind of how they start to get close.

Q: In this film, Scott Porter’s character Tommy sure isn’t who we think he is. Do you think we should end up feeling sorry for him as your character Beth does?
Alexis: I don’t think that I’ve ever actually said to someone, ‘I feel sorry for you.’ And at that point I think she’s wanting to hurt him. I think she’s trying not to be unkind. Maybe there’s nothing left to say at that point and that’s just what comes out.
So it was really an interesting scene, I’m not one to tell people what they should feel. I think you should feel whatever you feel at that point, after watching the film.

… read more »

Marc Malkin from E! Online talked to Alexis at the The Good Guy press junket on Thursday. He asked her about the chance of a Gilmore Girls movie, her upcoming projects and her love life.

Imagine this—a Gilmore Girls movie!
It may not be in the works right now, but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen some day.
In fact, Alexis Bledel, who played Rory opposite Lauren Graham on the hit drama series, says she’s kinda open to it…

“I don’t know what story is left to tell,” Bledel, now 28 told me yesterday during a chat at the Four Seasons Hotel. “But I’d very curious to read a script.”

Wouldn’t Rory be a mother by now?
“Oh my god—a baby bump! Could you imagine,” Bledel said with a laugh. “I actually always thought they were going to do that in the series. Since Lorelai got pregnant early, I thought my character was supposed to get pregnant early because she had all these boyfriends. Rory always had boyfriends.”

And speaking of boyfriends, Bledel stars in the upcoming flick The Good Guy as a young New Yorker who finds out the love of her life (Scott Porter) is, well, a cheating douchebag.

Bledel said she’s never dated someone similar, explaining that her love life is “not as exciting as the movie.”
She just wrapped The Conspirator, a Robert Redford-directed, post-Civil War period piece about Mary Surrat, the only woman among the eight people arrested and charged with conspiring to assassinate President Lincoln along with his vice president and secretary of state.

Bledel would love to do an action movie someday. “I’m sporty,” she smiled. “But even if I’m not the action hero, I could be like one of the techies.”
And she’s been thinking about theater, too. “I don’t know that I see myself belting one out on stage, like singing on Broadway,” Bledel said. “But I think a dramatic play would be really cool.”

Source

Alexis recently did a one-on-one interview with NewsOK. Read the interview below, and be sure to check back later today or tomorrow, as i’ll be adding “Post Grad” promotional videos screencaps.

Alexis Bledel cannot draw many comparisons between her life and that of her “Post Grad” character, Ryden Malby, who graduates from college with honors but must go home and live with her goofball family when her dream job does not pan out. But the former “Gilmore Girls” star said she had plenty of friends who could quote chapter and verse on the experience.
“It’s so hard,” Bledel, 27, said in a one-on-one interview at Hotel Casa del Mar in Santa Monica. “I mean, you finally gain your independence and go off to college, and you work so hard and graduate, only to have doors shut in your face. It’s incredibly humbling and difficult, and so many people I know have done this. A couple years later they end up in the job they want, but the process in between is hard to take.”

Bledel sees no shame in such an outcome. Born in Houston to an Argentine-Danish father and Mexican mother, Bledel cites the familial cultures of Latin America and Europe, where it is not so unusual for adult children to return after college to live, work and enjoy home cooking. But without the stress and importance placed on young adults getting a killer career straight out of the gate, “Post Grad” would not resonate with recent graduates competing for those few recession-era jobs.

… read more »

Alexis did an interview with NBC’s Entertainment Buzz on 20th August, last Thurdsday. You can watch the interview here. Alexis talks about the rumoured “Gilmore Girls” movie as well as whether there will be another “Sisterhood” movie.
OK! Magazine have a small article on the topic of the “Gilmore Girls” movie, you can read it here.
Alexis also did an interview with current_. She looks so pretty in it, I will be adding screencaps hopefully tomorrow.

Season 3, Episode 3- Application Anxiety

Season 3, Episode 4-One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes

Thanks to Chaz for giving me the link to Alexis’ interview on Tavis Smiley. Alexis was on the show the night of “Post Grad” relsease, Friday. She looked gorgeous, and obviously, they talked about “Post Grad” and there were also a few clips from the movie as well. Hopefully, I’ll be able to screencap this soon. (: