Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this collection of personal essays, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals stories about life, love, and working as a woman in Hollywood—along with behind-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the new Gilmore Girls, where she plays the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore once again.
In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood (“Strangers were worried about me; that’s how long I was single!”), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role, and her experience being a judge on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a fashion-induced blackout”).
In “What It Was Like, Part One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was Like, Part Two” reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her.
Some more things you will learn about Lauren: She once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls (“If you’re meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too high”), and she’s a card-carrying REI shopper (“My bungee cords now earn points!”).
Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cozy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories, and—of course—talking as fast as you can.
Includes a PDF of Photos from the Book
- Pages
- 229
- First published
- 2016
Shelved by 2 Litcadians
Reviews
Finished January 26, 2018
Lauren Graham aka to all Gilmore Girls fans as Lorelai Gilmore. I’ve seen all 7 seasons when they first released and I’ll re-watch them from time to time. Gilmore Girls is my comfort tv show. The most reliable thing because no matter what, the Gilmore’s will always be there. And now there’s the Gilmore Girls Reunion on Netflix. Gilmore Girls: a Year in the Life is four episodes that are all over an hour long, but it’s not enough. I still haven’t seen the 4th episode because I don’t want it to end. So I picked up Lauren Graham’s book Talking as Fast as I Can. I read her fiction book “Someday, Someday, Maybe” that seemed like a nonfiction book. I ended up really liking that book mostly because of the audiobook. Lauren Graham did a great job in reading her book. She made it light and funny. And maybe the character Franny Banks seemed like it was like Lauren Graham because of the audiobook. Talking as Fast As I Can is about Lauren and hearing her audiobook as well as reading the book was good. She talked fast in the audiobook. Like Lorelai Gilmore fast. Maybe that helped me speed read through her book. There was bits in the book that I liked, her notes on watching all the Gilmore Girls shows! And then bits I was just thinking like this was her way to advertise her book, “Someday, Someday, Maybe” oh and another book she’ll be writing and to keep a look out for, oh and a screenplay she’s going to write to. We get Lauren, you’re a writer. I liked your book, you don’t need to go on and on about it in every chapter in hopes that I’ll read it. Again. Bit redundant advertising but other than that I loved her bio. I’m glad I also got the kindle book because she added another chapter. It’s more of an appendix of all the things she forgot to add and things she wanted to add after the book was published. Like thanking everyone for taking half-face photos with her half-face on the book cover. Seeing our faces united across states and countries felt like a thank-you, a virtual “face hug” if you will, a gesture of support in a way that I couldn’t possibly have predicted and that I’ll never tire of...” I was actually thinking of taking a “face hug” photo. Someday. Maybe. Until then here’s my Instagram photo of my cast/stint and my kindle/audiobook with this Novelly Yours Seasons of Gilmore’s candle I love!!! https://instagram.com/p/BeXBUyYhiKi/