Gilmore Girls’ Kelly Bishop Responds to Criticism of Rory’s Career

Remember when Rory Gilmore was an aspiring foreign correspondent, outperforming her classmates at her prestigious private school and, as her best friend Paris Geller put it, looking like “the little birds who help you get dressed in the morning”?

Yes, that’s it. Kelly Bishopthe Gilmore Girls The star, who is best known for playing Rory’s sassy grandmother Emily Gilmore in the beloved series, admits she is still amazed by the transformation her granddaughter has undergone on screen (played by Alexis Bledel) took over the series.

“I think it would have been better if she had stayed true to herself,” Bishop mused in an exclusive interview with E! News. “Because I remember early on — she was a guest, I don’t know how they got all these good guests — but Christiane Amanpour“That was her ideal. I wish I could have seen her get closer to him.”

Instead, Rory went on to famously break up a marriage, steal a yacht, drop out of Yale, have an affair with her ex, dismiss job interviews as beneath her, and, in the stunning final moment of the 2016 Netflix remake, reveal her surprise pregnancy (by Logan or Wookiee, who can tell?).