Lauren Graham Reveals She Dated Some of Her 'Gilmore Girls' Character's Exes: 'Who Else Are You Going to Meet?'
Lauren Graham played Lorelai Gilmore on from 2000 until 2007.
She revealed during the April 2 episode of the podcast that she dated some of her onscreen boyfriends in real life.
Lorelai was best known for her relationship with Luke Danes, played by Scott Patterson, but Graham teased that they were never romantically involved outside of the show.
Where Lorelai Gilmore leads, Lauren Graham follows!
During an appearance on the April 2 episode of Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast, the actress, 58, opened up about her dating life as a public figure. During her days on Gilmore Girls, press would often question why she was single, so she decided to start telling them what they wanted to hear.
"It always feels weird to be asked, and many times I was lying because it such a strange thing to talk about — which I still mainly don't talk about,' she revealed. '[Dating is] something that you don't know what's going to happen. I think some people are built for it, some people don't find it personally vulnerable. And it was also, I have to say, it wasn't my focus at the time, so it felt strange. Like, I'm a working person and I'm in a career and I don't know. It just was odd.'
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There were times when she was telling the truth about having a man in her life, though. In fact, Graham shared that she actually dated some of the people her character Lorelai had onscreen romances with.
'Yes and dating is a real big word for some of the experiences,' she joked. 'But you know, you're there 14, 15 hours. Who else are you going to meet?'
Although Graham didn't name any of these costars, Lorelai had a handful of boyfriends throughout the show's seven season run, including Christopher Hayden (David Sutcliffe), Max Medina (Scott Cohen), Peyton Sanders (Jon Hamm), Alex Lesman (Billy Burke), Jason Stiles (Chris Eigeman) and, of course, Luke Danes (Scott Patterson) — whom she clarified was not one of the mystery men.
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When Cooper asked if Graham would consider herself 'a very private person,' or just in a career that is 'too public,' she said, 'a little bit of both.'
'I also think I have led, in some ways, an unconventional [life],' Graham explained. 'There is an age at which most ... a lot of people do the same thing. There's an age at which a lot of people get married, there's an age at which a lot of people have kids and then there are people who just are not on that timing. And so I don't know whether to be the spokesperson for that or apologetic about that.'
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Graham, who dated her Parenthood costar Peter Krause from 2010 until 2021 and never had children, said she only recently started to care about having a 'timeline' in her life.
'Now I'm like obsessed with timeline in a way I think is really positive,' she admitted. 'Because I'm now at an age where I want to be planning what else I would like in my life. I want to be thinking really actively about that. I think I was mainly in relationships where it didn't really occur to me to say, 'This is what I would like, this is not what I would not like.' I thought that happened just organically and it doesn't always.'
In the past, Graham said she chose partners who weren't as invested in their careers as she was, so she would 'tamp my thing down a bit' so they didn't feel bad in the relationship. As time passed, her perspective has changed.
'If we knew how to do it perfectly, every relationship would be perfect,' she noted. 'Because there's also giving something time to grow, and there's also not going in guns blazing, like, 'This is what I want,' when you haven't established a foundation yet.'
'I want to be in partnership, in every way, that is fun,' she added.
Gilmore Girls is streaming in full on Hulu and Netflix.
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