Alexis Bledel Makes Very Rare Public Appearance at Tribeca Film Festival in New York

The duo reflected on initially having a meager budget on Gilmore Girls, which required the cast to get creative when it came to catering.

“If there was a birthday at The Drew Carey Show next door, they would send us their leftover sheet cake,” Graham said.

“We looked hungry … Basically we were bullied and starving,” Bledel chimed in.

The Gilmore Girls alums mimicked the show’s fast-talking dialogue by insisting that, whatever hardships they faced on set, they were always more than satisfied with the “great scripts,” “big scripts” and “terrifyingly lengthy scripts.” (Gilmore Girls originally aired for seven seasons between 2000 and 2007 and later returned for the Netflix miniseries, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, in 2016.)

The duo later presented the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Emmy Award to Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory and Frida Perez for The Studio.

Prior to presenting at the Emmys alongside Graham, Bledel had not attended any public events since she made the guest list for the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 32nd Annual Academy Awards Viewing Party in West Hollywood, California, in March 2024.

Bledel spent the first four years of the 2020s almost entirely out of the spotlight, aside from attending the Screen Actors Guild Awards (now known as The Actor Awards) in January 2020. The following year, Bledel looked back on the legacy of Gilmore Girls during a Zoom interview on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in May 2021.