But that doesn’t mean that playing the DAR darling wasn’t fun.
Her favorite episode, “is what I call the Tennessee Williams episode where Emily finds out that Richard’s mother has written him a letter the night before the wedding begging him not to marry Emily,” Kelly recalled. “And that just sets Emily off into the stratosphere. She sits around in caftans drinking all day, very un-Emily-like, so that was great fun to play. Amy always managed to give me stuff to do that was fun, that was interesting.”
And now that she’s putting her memoir out into the world, Kelly really only wants to be known for one thing.
“What I’d really like to be remembered for is a working actor, like every time you turn around, she’s in something else,” she mused. “That’s something that I thought I would love to be. Not a star, not a celebrity, not a this, not a that, just a working actor. And that’s what I’ve gained out of it.”
The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly Bishop is out Sept. 17.
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