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!
]]>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.
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.
There is also one last one from AZ Central which is fairly long. It was taken from the press junket. Read it here
]]>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.”
Not letting fans guide her career.]]>
“I don’t read a lot of fan mail because some of it is a little strange. That was especially true when I was doing Gilmore Girls. I’m conscious of what people’s expectations are, what a fan would like or dislike. But I think filmmakers worry about that a lot more than actors do. You need to be attracted to a role or the chance to work with a director or a script and not what the audience is going to think. At least that’s the way I approach it.”The best part of making movies.
“There’s something really interesting about developing a character over time when you’re doing a film. When you’re doing a TV series like Gilmore Girls, it always seems to be a surprise. You get the scripts right before you start shooting the next day. You never know what’s coming next. I really, like, kind of having the whole story mapped out in a movie, being able to kind of know what I’m going to do with each scene and where my character is going to end up. But on the other hand, there’s something nice about surprises, too.”The shy kid who became a star.
“It might seem surprising but I was a pretty bashful kid. A lot of actors are shy, as it turns out. I think acting is an outlet for people to express themselves in a way they probably don’t in their real lives. I did some community theater when I was younger and I thought it was utterly terrifying just to go out on the stage. But, then, once you get over that absolute fear, it’s kind of exhilarating.”Why you don’t see her on TMZ.
“I don’t have a secret. I can think of a lot of young actors that don’t end up in the tabloids very often, if at all. I think it just depends on how much attention you want and how much you let that influence your lifestyle.”She’d rather party in the Big Apple.
“I go out more in New York than I do in L.A. because there seems to be more to do there for me. The toughest part of L.A. used to be driving because I was not a good driver, in fact, I was terrible. But I’ve calmed down a bit. I decided to be better.”
Los Angeles:
Criterion 6, Santa Monica
Mann Chinese 6, Hollywood
Mann Glendale Exchange 10, Glendale
University Town Center, Irvine
New York:
Union Square, NYC
Empire 25, NYC
1st and 62nd Street, NYC
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]]>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.
Q: Beth was so excited to get to go to Italy and disappointed when her trip falls through. Is there any place that you, Ms. “Traveling Pants” is dying to go?]]>
Alexis: (she laughs) I’d love to sail around the Mediterranean. That would be nice. (In the film), I think it’s also a comment on modern life, if not modern love. Everybody has these things that they would like to do but work or life or family or whatever it is gets in the way. Those things exist. Those things inspire us, just as love does but they’re just things that we want to do. Sometimes a lot of people don’t get to but I think it’s nice to mention them because that adds and informs you a little bit about who she is as a character.Q: Do you feel that Beth is just living her life according to Tommy’s schedule? Why wasn’t he ever living on her schedule?
Alexis: I think that’s just Tommy. That’s kind of his way of doing things. He likes to keep people at arm’s length and especially people he’s dating. He likes to keep people guessing because that probably gives him the control. In Beth’s mind, maybe that’s a part of her ideal man, that he is an anchor, that he gives her life some stability.
And maybe in a different kind of relationship she might discover that she could have more in her life like travel and other things if she were with a different kind of person. She’s trapped by her relationship.Q: But yet, when she figures him out, she drops him just like that so she’s strong.
Alexis: Yeah, and I think that’s a New York woman, too.Q: The film is pretty “real” about modern relationships. They include the moment when Beth reaches for a condom, adding some reality.
Alexis: I liked that part of the scene because it just adds a realistic [element]. Not an embarrassment but an awkwardness that happens. I mean there were a lot of little moments in the film that felt more realistic than in your average movie, a movie with a romantic storyline. That was one of them.Q: Would you go back to TV or do a big studio film?
Alexis: Yeah. I’m open. There are great films made through studios and independently and great characters on television. I’m not really confined to one sort of medium. I’m just looking for interesting characters and good stories to do.Q: Your character in The Good Guy is a very modern young woman but you just finished playing a woman living in the 1800’s; Sarah Weston who is caught up in the conspiracy to kill President Abraham Lincoln. Was that role a challenge? How did you prepare for it?
Alexis: Well, I was mostly a love interest but there were a lot of questions that I had about social propriety and certain manners that I thought I should have because I play Mary Surratt’s defense lawyer’s love interest. She’s from the north and she’s educated and I wanted her to be a contrast between her and this other nurse who was being accused.
But it was a story that I had not heard and so it was fascinating for me because most people are taught that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln and as it turns out there were a lot of conspirators involved in his murder and Mary Surratt was accused as one of them. But she ran a boarding house where they conspired and it’s about her trial and how it was completely unconstitutional.
Part of the interview from the junket can be seen below, you can also read the rest here.
]]>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.”
According to IMDB, Sleepaway Camp Reunion status has been changed to “in production” and she will play Lauren Scott.
The Good Guy will be released in just over 2 weeks and I have some goodies for you! I have added an additional 2 stills and I have also updated the poster to a better quality.
The official website has also been revamped with info on the cast and stills.
Two video clips have been put out via ComingSoon.net and MTV. You can watch them below.
