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Goodbye Gilmore, hello God
August 17, 2007




IT was quite possibly the busiest month of American actress Lauren Graham's career.


For four hectic weeks, she flew back and forth, filming her hit TV drama Gilmore Girls - which ended last year after seven seasons - in Los Angeles and starring alongside Steve Carrell in the new movie Evan Almighty, in Virginia.

Evan Almighty is the follow-up to the blockbuster comedy Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey as a TV newsman given godly powers and Carrell as his preening rival Evan Baxter.

Graham, 40, plays Evan's wife in the new film, which sees him being instructed by God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark to survive an impending flood.

Graham herself is trying to survive saying goodbye to Gilmore Girls, a project which dominated her life for so long, and getting used to her new-found freedom and burgeoning big-screen career.

It's a movie that incorporates different genres - comedy, biblical epic, special effects blockbuster. How did director Tom Shadyac describe it to you?

I just really try to connect to the character and the relationship. My scenes are pretty simple and straightforward...

But I couldn't have imagined how that stuff - all the amazing effects - would look at the end because I was more focused on the dialogue.

But when I saw the finished movie I was absolutely blown away. It's incredible what they've done.

The flood scenes when you are on the ark are spectacular. How did you shoot those?

It was sort of two weeks of being squishy and wet. And you change at lunch and peel your jeans off and I always found it funny that there is all this technology and all these amazing advances that have been made in filmmaking yet still the best way to get an actor wet is to hose him down with a hose.

There are no special effects, you just have to be wet and so you try to find a patch of sun and stand shivering in it.

It's a story with real heart and one of the themes is that we have to protect our environment which is very timely. Did that appeal to you?

Totally. I'm not in the business of making a message out of the things I choose. But you do have to connect to the story you're telling in some way...

I thought it was great because the movie is really funny and fun and not heavy-handed.

You've worked on Gilmore Girls for seven years. How does it feel now it's over?

I don't know yet. It was such a strange year, where the whole year the question was, 'Are we going to keep going?'

And there were mixed feelings for many reasons and I'm happy that it ended but I think it could have had more ceremony to the ending.

I didn't have a chance to say goodbye to the people. I think it was the right thing for the show and for me personally... I don't know how you end something like that.

source Singapore Newspaper.