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A rare interview with Lauren Graham from TV Guide takes a look at her new film, Evan Almighty, a movie about God telling actor Steve Carell to build an ark, which he refuses to do, so animals flock to him and he starts turning into Noah. Lauren Graham plays his wife, one of her largest big screen roles ever. Graham is quoted as saying the ark is built full out and is at least one football field long.

"I’ve been on top of the ark. I have dirt on me that’s, like, 3 inches thick." And they’re [the managers] like, "OK, it’s not really the flood. Calm down." [Laughs]

Lauren has had to juggle filming of the movie with that of Gilmore Girls:

It’s endless. It overlapped with [Gilmore Girls] by, like, a month, so there were about 30 days where I would work in one place, fly overnight and work in the other place…

When asked about what it feels like to be nominated for awards, and the upcoming Emmys, Lauren responds:

It’s totally unexpected and really cool, and [the critics] have been so important to the success of the show and to me in particular, so I’m really thankful. This is the time of year when I start getting asked a lot about [the Emmys], because I think I’ve become, like, the Susan Lucci [figure] - except I’m not even nominated.

Question: Are you aware of the changes in the Emmy system this year?
Graham: Yes, but I don’t totally understand them. I know that it’s sort of like they hole up everybody in a screening room and you’re sort of forced to watch an episode. I don’t really understand what the difference is…

I wonder if it will help or hurt, frankly, because the [Gilmore] episodes I like the most tend to be the most dramatic. I think our strongest episodes are the least funny, [but we’re] in the comedy category. You’re still gonna be watching it along with something with a laugh track, and it might seem weird.

In reference to the Gilmore Girls, and the abrupt departure of its creators before what could be the last season of the show, Lauren Graham responds:

I still am in some sort of denial. She was directing the [season finale] and she told me personally one night after work. You know, there had been rumblings, but there always are this time of year, because they have renegotiated pretty much one year at a time. I thought there was a chance for a reconciliation. From what I understood from her and then from what was printed, the reasons why don’t really match. So I don’t know. They’re both really talented.

I feel sad. I feel sad because I think this is probably going to be the last year of the show and we won’t all end it together. There have been ups and downs over the years, like any collaboration, but I trust her dialogue. I haven’t always liked where the story’s going, and I haven’t always liked the plots, but I really enjoy her language. And she really had a huge part in every episode. On the other hand, we’re in the hands of David Rosenthal, who’s very talented, and who’s really kind, and who really deserves the belief that the show will be really good. Most shows, at this point, don’t have their original show-runner still attached. And we have a much bigger crew of writers now, because when you’re a husband-wife team writing every other episode, you don’t have a lot of other writers. So we now have some really high-level people who are fans of the show, and I think that energy might be really important. It’s our seventh year, so we have to look at it as an opportunity to kind of have a renewal. But [Amy and I have] been e-mailing back and forth. I think it’ll be OK…

No one’s approached us about [an eighth season]. It’s a lifestyle thing as well as a creative thing. I’m not set for life or anything. I need a steady job, and this is a wonderful character and a great show and something I’m really proud of. So there are definitely reasons to keep doing it. But to me, when you start staying someplace for money or security, it shows in your work. It’s a very difficult show to do. It’s a lot of language and that makes for very long hours…

I don’t think we’ll [Lauren & Alexis]ever get in a situation where she wants to stay but I don’t and one of us is holding out. We wouldn’t do that in a vacuum without the other one knowing.

Lauren Graham also commented about the dramatic ending to Season 6, with her and Christopher in bed together:

I don’t think people were probably thrilled - of course, all my references are 50 years old - when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I’m 100! It stirs up your passion for what you would like to happen and for the characters you’re interested in. And it’s human. The thing I don’t like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it. [The Lorelai-Christopher thing], to me, was such a long time coming. This was built into the story for a long time - that Lorelai didn’t feel understood [by Luke] and they weren’t communicating. [Christopher and Lorelai] have a connection and it made total sense to me, just given the story. To me, that’s a satisfying season finale. I’m sorry if people were upset.

I don’t think this is a passive character, but both in the Rory situation and in that April situation, it’s hard to play. But I do think the payoff was good. And had you not had all those episodes where you and I and everybody was frustrated, would the payoff be as good? I don’t know. I really trusted [Amy’s] way of telling a story and that’s her way of telling a story. There may be some difference in that this year, and then will people complain about that? "Too much happened!" You know, "Lorelai’s too sassy again!"

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