Kelly Bishop Responds to Criticism of Rory’s Character Development in Gilmore Girls
“My favorite lunch in the city—and we don’t do it nearly often enough—is Amy Sherman Palladino and Lauren and me, the three of us,” Kelly dished. “Just sit and have a really long lunch and just gab all over the place.”
Perhaps a future topic of conversation could be the celebrated stage and screen actress’ memoir The Third Gilmore Girl, which sees her offer a peek into her seven seasons on the hit mother-daughter series as well as her impressive life and career as a dancer, on the Broadway stage, as the mom of Baby (Jennifer Grey) in Dirty Dancing, and much more.
And though she frequently distances herself from her high society character, Kelly doesn’t view Emily as a villain.
“I think that she’s a complex person. I don’t think that she’s mean,” the veteran actress said of Emily. “But she’s really very severe in so many ways. She’s not sympathetic to me as a character, but she wouldn’t be sympathetic with other people. She would protect her family and her girls and her status quo and all of that, but she’s not warm and fuzzy at all. So, yeah, she’s not at all like me. We have very little in common, very little.”