Interview By: Rocco Passafuime
RoccoPassafuime@TheCinemaSource.com
Lauren Graham is certainly one of Hollywood’s busier on-the-rise actresses today. Fueled by an idiosyncratic performance as bartender Sue in the dark comedy Bad Santa, Graham is quickly raising her profile and her considerable potential as an actress in films.
Her latest film is as Diane Keaton’s oldest daughter in the romantic comedy Because I Said So. However, the opportunity was not without some difficulty to secure as Lauren also still commits to her longtime breakthrough role as Lorelai Gilmore on the CW’s highly popular drama Gilmore Girls, which is in its seventh season.
“I just met on it, I think,” she recalls, “I didn’t have to read. And we had just met the director Michael [Lehmann] and we kind of talked about it. And then, the real barrier was working out the schedule because it overlapped some with the show. And it was the first time that the show was flexible enough to let me out to do something else. Because it was only a couple of days, but that was like a real gift.”
She notes that she enjoyed playing a character that was part of such a tight-knit family and expounded about her own attempts to be more tight-knit with hers.
“It was just sort of a kooky family history where it was just me and my dad for a while, then he had other kids and my mom had a daughter,” Graham explains, “So I have two half-sisters and a half-brother who are all in their early twenties, who I didn’t grow up with at all. Kind of late in life for me, I’ve had that opportunity and there’s just really nothing like it. It’s just so amazing to have a friend that you’re related to that you really like.”
“But I didn’t have it growing up,” she adds, “I was always a very quiet, by myself, only-child kind of kid who read a lot, but I had cousins and I could see that in other people’s families. But it’s a fun relationship to play in a movie because these are really fun girls. And it’s almost better for me anyway if you don’t have that so you’re not trying to be like, ‘Well, my sister and I, we would always get together and talk over each other. That’s what we’d thought it would be like.’”
Lauren also was deeply enthused to work with Oscar-winning actress and romantic comedy veteran Diane Keaton.
“She was incredibly kind and just very supportive of me,” she recollects, “She just talked about just how much it has meant to her to be able to continue to do comedy and how that’s something that as a woman, if that’s something you can do is a really great way to keep working. Because she says, ‘Funny doesn’t age.’ She had went through a time when she really wanted to do these dramatic roles and [her dad] was saying, ‘But you’re funny, you should be funny.’ So she was just great.”
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