![]() Emily Gilmore was very pristine and precise. Kelly is much more of a broad than Emily Gilmore was. TVLINE | Did you always envision Kelly as the mother hen? ![]() With Sutton, the directions say “walk around in your underwear” and five minutes later I get a picture from wardrobe going, “Which pair of underwear do you want her walking around in?” She’s just an absolute gamer. “My ass doesn’t look so good.” “Can I be in a teddy?” “Can I have an ass double?” “I don’t want to be in my underwear.” “Call my agent, I think I have an underwear clause.” It’s like a whole thing. You write a scene where Michelle up in her underwear. And Sutton has so far exceeded even my wildest expectations, and my expectations were pretty damn. We sat in a room together - she already memorized the script - and we worked on several scenes and, believe me, by the time the press release came out I was beyond positive that this is my girl. And, frankly, she came out here and I worked with her. Theater folks tend to be good with dialogue. TVLINE | But could she handle your 16-page monologues?įirst off, they’re 15 pages. ![]() RELATED | Gilmore Creator on Alexis Bidel’s Racy Mad Men Stint: ‘They Were Nice Boobs’ One minute she can be glammy and the next minute she’s the girl next door and the next minute she’s Barney Fife. I as like, “There is something unbelievably strange and perfect about this girl.” She’s a chameleon. I’m sitting across the table from a 12-year-old eating chicken fingers. And then she takes her makeup off and she looks like she’s 12 years old. I wanted to see if she was crazy, if she speaks in tongues, if she eats kittens - how nutty is she?” So I met her between and, you know, on stage she ‘s this sort of brassy tall blonde bombshell. But I feel like this might be our girl.” So I called CAA - the most powerful dominating force in the world - and meeting. I may have had too many cocktails before the show. And I was like, “I’m basing this on absolutely nothing. When I started writing the script I went to New York and saw Anything Goes. Her life has been so Broadway, Broadway, Broadway. I was familiar the name Sutton Foster, but I never met her or had any interaction with her. TVLINE | How did Sutton Foster come into the picture? Were you familiar with her work? will ask the occasional question but there has not been a wholesale demand for something. And though it’s fraught with peril, there are many pleasures to be derived from the experience. She understands the complicated yet charmingly delightful world of Amy Sherman-Palladino. She was at The WB when I pitched Gilmore. I got one phone call after they picked up the pilot to say, “So, uh, is Bunheads the title?” I said, “Yeah.” And they went, “Okay.” I guarantee you that a conversation was had around a big table with a lot of Diet Cokes and worried faces and charts in front of them. Did you get any pushback from ABC Family? My mother is tragically disappointed at the ugly turn of events that my life has taken. TVLINE | Where did the idea for this show come from? Gilmore Girls Vet Melissa McCarthy Praises 'Amazing' Lauren Graham on Show's 22nd Anniversary Gilmore Girls: Has Rory's Baby Daddy Mystery Finally Been Solved? ![]()
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