Amy Sherman-Palladino's speech at Lauren Graham's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony

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https://www.maximotv.com  Speech by 'Gilmore Girls' creator Amy Sherman-Palladino at the unveiling of Lauren Graham's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, October 3, 2025, at 6284 Hollywood Boulevard, in front of the W Hollywood Hotel in Los Angeles, California, USA.  This video is available for editorial use in all media and worldwide. To ensure compliance and proper licensing of this video, please contact us at https://www.maximotv.com. ©MaximoTV #maximotv  🇺🇸

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00:00is a wildly talented and incredible human being it is another good friend and longtime colleague

00:09of Lauren's this phenomenal writer director producer and creator delivered unto us such

00:15wonders as bunheads the marvelous mrs. Mabel Maisel et while and of course a little something I may

00:22have mentioned earlier called Gilmore Girls please welcome to the podium Amy Sherman

00:29Palladino hi I'm old here we go ah really hey yeah okay um I was usually I do these things where I

00:53don't think about it and I just show up and I talk about cheese and then I get off the stage and hope

00:58that nobody realized that I don't know what I'm talking about but it is Lauren Graham so as Arthur

01:04Miller said attention must be paid so I wrote shit oh god I'm sorry I wasn't gonna swear I wrote stuff

01:11um okay now let's pretend that I'm an actor and I can actually public speak just pretend go with me

01:17um okay it was a cold rainy day in grim sad soggy Burbank California I hate Burbank so it's always

01:24grim and sad and soggy there um so we sat huddled in a drafty room in a sad trailer park structure that

01:30housed the WB main offices at the time hands clutching lukewarm coffee worried shaking nauseous

01:36knowing that soon we had to go to Canada and this was pro this was pre-Trump Canada not the hot Canada

01:43the fuck you America Canada this is that oh I'm so sorry Canada and we can't drive Canada it was that

01:50Canada and we had everybody we had the kid we had the grandparents we had townspeople we had the hot

01:56love interest we just didn't have the girl we just didn't have the girl we had auditioned literally

02:02every I'm already off book I can't read we we'd auditioned literally like every actress who claimed to be

02:09in their early 30s in the entirety of America yeah there was a lot of stretching and nobody nobody

02:16came in nobody had the you know the smart to the sharp nobody looked good in jeans nobody just had

02:22the whole package and my husband often says that I am the queen of writing uncastable parts and this

02:30one I thought yeah I'm I'm literally never going to find this girl and that's fine you know I've had a

02:35good life I can teach a learning annex class and somebody will hire Valley College right that's not

02:43far I can go there and then suddenly yeah the door opened door open and in she walked this girl with

02:53a look on her face like oh good another 13 and out gig can't wait she sat down she opened her mouth

03:02and now Lauren was already contracted to another show that hadn't been picked up yet so I didn't

03:10really want to meet her ever because I thought if I fall in love with her and I can't have her I'll

03:14just kill myself because I'm very dramatic and we literally were out of people so she came in

03:19she sat down she said like two words I'm like god damn it it's her and it was her not just because

03:26she was the only one in 40,000 women who pronounced Jack Kerouac correctly I don't I don't understand

03:34why people just can't look up I don't know who this writer is there's internet you can find ask go

03:41to a bookstore hey how do you pronounce this I mean it's really not hard only one one out of 40,000 but

03:48she was just like you know she was kind of like if if Carol Lombard and Barbara Stanwyck had a baby

03:54that didn't have any sort of alcoholism or drug addiction or a bad like plane crash that was

04:01Lauren Graham I think that like if it was the old studio system days Lauren would have been

04:05you know she would have been Catherine Hepburn she would have been you know these this amazing with

04:11the furs and the dogs that match the coat and the you know the men the men the men and instead she

04:18was you know we had a dancing frog and we but we were you know we could look at Buffy and we're

04:25across the way so she came in she got the gig her other show went away and I thought what can I do

04:34for this wonderful woman who's given me my career my job my show that I love so much so I decided to

04:43saddle her with 10 pages a day every single day for six years learn it in the trailer good luck kid

04:50walk in a circle in Burbank I mean there was a seventh year but we don't talk about it we call

04:54it the Scottish play um I wasn't there and I all I want to say about Lauren is this is the worst

05:04business in the world and if anyone's considering going into it like don't it's horrible and they treat

05:11people awful and people that you think are your friends aren't they hate you and you never know

05:19like when somebody's going to come into your life and they are going to be important and they're going

05:24to mean something and Lauren Graham changed my entire life I have a hat room in New York City I live in New

05:34York City and I have a room that's just for hats and that's because of Lauren Graham and all I can say

05:45is I love you I forgive the fact that you decided to become a writer thanks for staying in your lane

05:50really and I I I owe you everything but more than that you are everything just to me

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