Thu, 18 June 2009 at 7:52 am

Alexis Bledel Loves American Art

Alexis Bledel arrives on the concrete “carpet”, as The Whitney Contemporaries host the Art Party and Auction benefiting the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and Educational Initiatives at Skylight Studios in Soho, NYC on Wednesday (June 17).

The 27-year-old former Gilmore Girls star will be starring in the upcoming summer film, Post Grad. In a recent interview discussing the film, she talked about her former character on Gilmore Girls, compared to the character she played in Post Grad. “Well, as the years went by on Gilmore Girls, I noticed that Rory was kind of like an idealized product of the show’s imagination because she was really perfect in a lot of ways, which started to annoy me a bit, but you have to keep playing the character,” she said.

“But Ryden -– I think she’s much more relatable in a lot of ways and this character’s story picks up in the same stage of life where Rory left off, graduating from college,” Alexis told North by Northwestern. “So for anyone who likes the show, its kind of -– it’s a continuation in a way, but she’s a completely different girl because she makes a lot of mistakes. She has a very typical college experience. She’s kind of an average girl, and I can relate much more to her.

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