Alexis Bledel On Regis & Kelly

Alexis Bledel had an interview on the morning talk show Regis & Kelly last week, July 3rd to be exact. It wasn't very long and lengthy, but Alexis tackled her road to fame and she even let it slip about her and Milo. Below is the transcript of the interview. Enjoy!

"Regis: Okay, our next guest plays Rory Gilmore on the WB's critically acclaimed series Gilmore Girls.. You see some awfully good things on there..
Kelly: Oh sure, yeah!
Regis: So please welcome Alexis Bledel!

Regis: Alexis Bledel! Of the Gilmore Girls!
Alexis: Yes!
Kelly: Last time you were here was during the blackout?
Alexis: Yes, last time I was in New York I got stuck in the blackout, I was on one of the last flights of the Concord coming back - um - trying to get back to LA to work on the show and the blackout had just happened when we landed, so I didn't get back to LA right away. I actually had to take like a cabride into the city for like a 100 $, with like eight other people. And like, try to get into the city and find a place to stay. And I ended up sleeping in the lobby of a building for like a homeless person [laughs] Because there was nowhere to go.
Regis: No electricity for the elevators
Alexis: No! No electricity for anything.. it was crazy!
Regis: Sure .. So um - Boy you had an exciting life! You know that?
Alexis: Really, yeah?
Regis: I think, yeah!
Alexis: I like it [laughs]
Regis: You came here to New York the first time many years ago when you were at high school, or just out of high school
Alexis: Yeah, I came to college - um, to NYU - when I was eighteen. And um -
Kelly: Is that where you were discovered? Or were you discovered before that?
Alexis: Well - while I was at school here I actually started going on a handful of auditions and that's when I um - I got the part on Gilmore Girls. And I moved to LA shortly after that, and I've been doing that
Regis: But before that you were a model
Alexis: Yes
Regis: So you had one summer of living here in New York, you and what? Eight models? Lived with you and your mom in a two-bedroom apartment..
Alexis: A bunch of models and my mom basically [laughs]
Kelly: And - and if you know anything about models, they're incredibly neat
[Laughter]
Alexis: It was - it was, I mean we had like bunk beds and like just - people have stuff everywhere and my mom was sort of the - everybody's mom. She would make breakfast for everybody and take care, clean up for everybody. Um - but yeah, it was a crazy experience
Regis: Were you a good model?
Alexis: Um - I don't know
Regis: Did you walk down that runway with like *****?
Alexis: I didn't do runway, actually. I mostly did print jobs, 'cause I'm not tall enough to do - you have to be really tall.
Regis: You gotta be at least 6'8"
Alexis: At least!
[Laughter]
Regis: The Gilmore Girls, did you hear about this audition, is that how it happened?
Alexis: Um - I was sent on the audition by my agent at the time, my manager, and um - and - they just kept calling me back, and calling me back, and so I -
Regis: And eventually you got the job
Alexis: Yeah
Kelly: So literally, like an untrained actor auditioned..
Alexis: Oh, yeah - I didn't know what I was doing, at all.
Kelly: It's incredible!
Alexis: It was - it was - yeah, insane. I was not expecting that at all, I mean..
Kelly: Another thing I didn't know - I didn't know this about you - that you - that Spanish is your first language?
Alexis: Yeah
Kelly: I had no idea - 'cause when I look at you, I go 'ooh, she's a little Irish girl'
Alexis: Right! That's what everybody thinks! But um - no - I can totally understand and speak Spanish - and always have, so.
Regis: I can speak Spanish too
Alexis: You can? What can you say?
Regis: Quesadilla
Alexis: Very good!
[Laughter]
Kelly: Isn't that incredible?
Alexis: It is good! That's good
Kelly: Did that do anything for you Alexis?
Alexis: Very accurate .. made me hungry actually
Regis: Does this Gilmore Girl have a boyfriend?
Alexis: Um - no, no. Not right now, um - no [laughs]
Regis: What's a Gilmore Girl without a boyfriend?
[Laughter]
Alexis: I had lots of them on the show though, they were like in heavy rotation.. guys are coming back and then they leave.. and there's like four of them at all times. It's very .. unrealistic honestly
[Laughter]
Regis: The show's been on for six years, and I understand your executive producers, who are a man and wife team, right? are leaving?
Alexis: Yes, they're leaving the show, yeah. Um - they've been there for six years and they - they created it and basically did everything for it, and it's gonna be weird .. this year without them, because it's so much about them.. and their ideas and sense of humor, and everything
Regis: Well thank you so much for coming by
Alexis: Thank you! Thank you for having me!
Regis: Gilmore Girls is Tuesday Night's at 8 o'clock on the WB!"

* Thanks to Alexis-Online.net for the transcript!