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This Iconic ‘Gilmore Girls’ Role Almost Went to Someone Else

The show would’ve looked (and probably felt) completely different.

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It’s hard to imagine anyone else but Lauren Graham playing the beloved Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls, but that’s almost exactly what happened.

Graham was filming another project—NBC’s M.Y.O.B.—at the time the script for Gilmore Girls came across her desk.

“Lauren [Graham] was initially on vacation and the casting director was talking about her, but she was on another show. I kept saying, ‘I don’t want to meet somebody I can’t have because if I fall in love with her and then I can’t have her, I will kill........

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