They're taking a visit to Star's Hole.
Within the upcoming documentary “Drink Espresso, Discuss Quick,” administrators Meghna Balakumar and Kevin Konrad Hanna revealed that it wasn't arduous to get the present's stars to speak.
“Everybody's been actually, actually open to the purpose the place it's truly been shocking,” Balakumar solely informed The Submit.
“We went to individuals's homes [to interview them]. We truly spent the day with them and their households, and sort of acquired to reside their lives for a short while.”
The brand new mission celebrates the twenty fifth anniversary of “Gilmore Ladies.”
She joked that she was “scared” to go meet Kelly Bishop, due to her stern character, Emily Gilmore, however, “she was so heat and welcoming.”
“Drink Espresso, Discuss Quick” doesn't have a premiere date but, nevertheless it's eyeing a summer season 2026 launch.
For now, they're raising money to fund it on Kickstarter, with a objective of just below $70,000, which has already been exceeded.
The documentary will cowl the beloved household drama, which aired from 2000 to 2007 on The WB (which then grew to become the CW) earlier than it acquired a 2016 Netflix revival collection, “Gilmore Ladies: A 12 months within the Life.”
“Gilmore Ladies” follows former teen mother Lorelai (Lauren Graham), as she raises her precocious teen daughter, Rory, (Alexis Bledel) within the quaint city of Stars Hole, Connecticut.
Supporting characters embrace Lorelai's tough mom, Emily (Bishop), her diner proprietor love curiosity, Luke (Scott Patterson), Luke's nephew Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory's first boyfriend, Dean (Padalecki), native city weirdo, Kirk (Sean Gunn), and Lorelai's finest good friend, Sookie (Melissa McCarthy).
“While you discuss to the solid about this present, it nonetheless sits in such a particular place of their hearts,” Balakumar and Hanna stated. “You see their eyes gentle up, and you'll inform it's identical to this second in time in TV that may by no means fairly be recreated.”
As an example, she stated concerning the solid, “they're like, ‘yeah, come on over,' and also you fly to Austin [Texas] and also you're strolling into Jared Padalecki's home.”
Though Padalecki is best recognized for his long-running starring function on “Supernatural,” enjoying Rory's boyfriend Dean on “Gilmore Ladies” is “the place he began.”
“He discovered the business and constructed relationships,” Hanna informed The Submit. “For him, that was mainly his highschool school expertise: rising up on the set of ‘Gilmore Ladies,' and the relationships and friendships that he made.”
Hanna recalled seeing Padalecki take a “name from Milo once we had been hanging out with him,” referring to Milo Ventimiglia, 48, who performed Jess, Dean's rival for Rory's affections.
“So you'll be able to hear them simply being good pals right this moment. And I believe that's superb.”
He added that the “Supernatural” star “lived with Chad throughout his early years,” referring to Chad Michael Murray, who additionally performed one in all Dean's adversaries, since Murray's character, Tristan Dugray, flirted with Rory.
“It seems like ‘Gilmore Ladies' was this sort of camp [for the cast].”
The filmmakers stated that the documentary goals to cowl each the primary present and the Netflix revival.
“All of the Gilmores. Each Gilmore,” Hanna quipped.
And, though will probably be a “optimistic” doc, they gained't shrink back from “scorching takes,” such because the viewers's response to the controversial “A 12 months in The Life.”
“This present has created enjoyable division within the groups of the boys,” Balakumar stated, referring to how some viewers desire Rory to be paired with Dean, others with Jess, and others together with her school boyfriend, Logan (Matt Czuchry).
And, since “A 12 months within the Life” left Rory pregnant with an unclear father, the doc will cowl rampant fan hypothesis about “who's Rory's child daddy?”
“We wish to cowl all of the discourse round it,” she famous.
Regardless of together with the majority of the present's solid, they haven't but confirmed if Graham, Bledel, or Amy Sherman-Palladino will take part.
“We're not executed filming [the documentary], so we're actually hoping that we'll be capable of embrace everybody by the point we're full,” stated Balakumar.
Hanna added that they've “extra individuals we can be saying quickly” and “conversations are being had.”
