Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino says we should think about Rory in other terms besides who she is dating or who she will end up with on the Netflix revival.
- Nov 5, 2016
AceShowbiz - Maybe we care too much about Rory's (Alexis Bledel) love life when we should be paying attention to another thing in Rory's life. "Gilmore Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said in a recent interview with Time that the show, at its core, is not about Rory's romantic prospects, but more about a smart, ambitious girl and her family.
Responding to debates about whom Rory will end end up with (Jared Padalecki's Dean, Milo Ventimiglia's Jess or Matt Czuchry's Logan) on the upcoming Netflix revival, Sherman-Palladino said, "It's a small part of who Rory is. Rory didn't spend her days thinking, 'Who am I going to end up with?' Rory was much more concerned about 'How do I get that interview at the New York Times?' It's a natural thing: People love romance. Romance is an element of every show on air, including 'The Sopranos' or 'Breaking Bad'."
She continued, "Sometimes I wish that the Dean and Jess thing weren't so prominent because in the grand scheme of Rory's life, who her boyfriend was when she was 16 years old is such a small event. I don't begrudge people the excitement of Jess and Dean. But they were there to show Rory's evolution as a character. She picked certain boys for her depending on who she was at that moment. It was part of her character. It was part of her development that Dean was her first boyfriend, that Jess was the boy that diverted her attention. Then she wound up with Logan, and God knows where she's been since then."
Still, Sherman-Palladino acknowledged that the actors playing Rory's exes are big part of the show. "I have such great affection for all three of these boys as actors and as people," she said. "They were a very big part of the show, and frankly they were always there to feed stories about Lorelai and Rory. That was the core of everything. Lorelai's relationships, Rory's relationships were a way for us to explore the mother-daughter relationship."
Sherman-Palladino said that people should start asking other questions like "What newspaper is Rory's working for?" and "Did she win a Pulitzer yet?" She added, "Everybody should go back and think about their boyfriend at 16 and then reevaluate whether that should be the focus of the conversation."
"Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" also brings back Lauren Graham as Lorelai, Kelly Bishop as Emily, Scott Patterson as Luke, Keiko Agena as Rory's best friend Lane, Liza Weil as Rory's friend Paris Geller and Danny Strong as Paris' longtime lover.
The four-part revival will premiere November 25 on Netflix.
