You said you have another project in a month, can you talk about it?

Well this movie I'm doing right now is called 'Laws of Motion.' It's an independent film that the playwright Craig Lucas is directing and Hilary Swank is a producer on it and has a supporting part in it just to lend her name to it. And that's really cool, actually and inspiring to see an actress who has a company who is helping get stuff made because she believes in it. It's the story of a dysfunctional family and Matthew Perry is my husband and we have sort of a quiet marriage that is in trouble and his brother and sister come to stay with us to disastrous results. And it's just kind of a dark comedy but it's a very conservative, preppy shut down character who is just trying to be nice to these people who she thinks are freaks. And so that's a cool kind of different place to be. And then the next thing is I'm doing a wife world tour. I don't know if you could tell. I'm playing Greg Kinnear's wife in a movie about the man who invented the intermittent windshield wiper and it's based on a true story. It's a really great story because he felt that his patent was stolen by the car companies and he in real life spent his life not necessarily fighting for money, which he ended up getting quite a bit of, but fighting for the rights of inventors. And he's a real figure among inventors as someone who really stood up for their rights and it's like an amazing part for Greg. And in that one I have five kids.

Do you find that people really know you from Gilmore Girls?

I don't know. I really don't know. What a lot of directors like still is 'Bad Santa.' And I had a small part in that weird movie, but...

A great line

A great line that my father still is like, 'ah.' But I'm not really sure. I think this movie even though it wasn't out yet helped. And I do think the reputation of the show, of course, has been a huge help and I'm just glad that the projects don't resemble each other very much, either in tone or I mean they're adjoined by being somebody's wife but at this age that's what you're...there are stories about relationships and that's the kind of movie I like anyway. So I feel really lucky. I seriously thought I was going to be planting like an herb garden and be sitting at this junket like, you guys, at three o'clock in the afternoon 'Judge Judy' comes on and she is so great. So I'm happy to be just kind of floating around doing stuff. Though 'Judge Judy' is great.

Can you talk about working with Morgan Freeman and that great scene in the restaurant?

I love that scene. And that was the scene in the movie that really struck me as kind of a new way to say something really simple. And I just loved the message of that scene, which is just because you believe in something and ask for help doesn't mean you get it handed to you. It's still your job as a person to figure things out for yourself. And he's really, he's an impressive person to be around so you have no problem, because that was a tricky scene in that I'm like 'hi, can I get some more fries or whatever?' And he's like, 'are you all right?' And then I just thought who would you open up to in this circumstance? But with him it's actually very easy. He is, I have found with the best people that I have worked with that it's the simplest work in a way because you're just connected and it all feels as truthful as it possibly can and so you just want to keep doing it to try different things or something. But he's just really cool.

He likes to mess with us. Does he mess with you?

Yeah. I forget what he said to me, but I had been warned. And so he sassed me and I kind of sassed him back and he was like, he was kind of like, 'this one can stay.' And I was like 'cool. I got him.' But I was like shaking, shaking, shaking. Because you know you don't want to be sassy to someone you respect unless you know that's the only way that they will respect you. He's funny. He's just funny and he's really comfortable in his skin so he's not, he just likes to play around.

Now that you are doing movies, is there a pet project that you’d like to do?

No. Now that I'm doing more movies, what I really want to do is a musical. But no. I'm still just kind of riding this wave. I haven't had time. I had like two weeks off the show and I haven't had time to really think about even in terms of the TV show what I would like to do next. So that will take a little time I think.

A musical?

Yeah. A musical would great.

You’re done with television?

No. I love television. I would go back for sure. But again it's like not until I know because let's face it the next thing will be a disaster. It'll last three episodes and that's just the odds. That's just what happens.

And there’s the reunion movie of the Gilmore Girls.

And there's the reunion movie of the 'Gilmore Girls.' Yeah.

What’s your favorite musical?

It was, well, it's probably 'Anything Goes' but I can't sing that. So I have to find something that I can actually do.

What were your emotions when the show ended?

You know it was really mixed because I felt that the show was telling it was over. I mean from the beginning of this year having nothing to do with David Rosenthal who took it over, I felt then it's really, I don't know what else there is to do here. And we all were feeling restless. But also you feel so attached. It's like a project like that becomes a person. You want to leave the person in the right place or something. And so it was really struggle and I think we felt like to do that show just cost a certain amount of time and dedication. It never got easier. You know usually in years five, six, seven on a show like that you get into a routine. The days become normal. And that never really happened there. It's the nature of how much language, of just the big long scenes, the long shots and the fact that it was really mainly the two of us. So we discussed all kind of different options for is there a way to do this but let us have a more regular kind of work day and they tried and we tried and at the end of the day there wasn't a way to do any differently and I think they felt it was going to cost them a whole lot to try to renegotiate with everybody. So it felt right. It felt like the right thing. And all those discussions and kind of angst about it also felt right because it should, it was one of the best jobs I ever had and so of course it was hard. It was hard to leave. But then it was done I thought oh, all right.