Handmaid's Tale, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Sin City, and Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel has led a very interesting life with an impressive acting career.
But there is so much about her that we didn't know — so much more than meets the eye.
Here are some cool facts to know about Alexis! Let us know which your favorite one is at the end of the article!
"I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really," she told IGN.
"I went to college at NYU, and I was working there as a model, and I started auditioning for some pilots around that time."
"I went through a phase where I wanted to be an architect," she told Seventeen.
"Then I realized there was a lot of math involved in that so I ruled it out completely."
Although it might not look like it at first glance (or second), Alexis is of Argentinean descent.
"Most people think I'm Irish," she said in 2005. "It's the only culture my mom knows from life."
"So we speak Spanish in my parents' house, and my mom cooks amazing Mexican food."
As surprising as it might have been to learn that Alexis' family is from Argentina, it may also come as a shock to learn that her first language is Spanish, not English.
But now it all makes sense.
Like many other actors, actresses, and performers of all sorts, Alexis is not her legal first name but rather more of a stage name.
Her full name is actually Kimberly Alexis Bledel.
It might be assumed that anybody that acts or performs for a living is an extrovert, but for Alexis, that isn't the case!
"I always thought that I would work behind the camera because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really," she once told IGN.
Thanks to Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Blake and Alexis have remained close friends. Personally, I love when things like this happen.
So close, that Blake made her the godmother of her first born!
A source told Us Weekly that their wedding "was a small and intimate family affair. They wanted something relaxed and beautiful. Ojai was the perfect place. His family flew out from the East Coast."
Not long after, the pair welcomed their first child in 2015. However, it wasn't revealed to the public until 2016!
"More than anything, I just think about what roles I take on, and I make sure that it's really something I feel passionate about if I'm going to leave home and go work. I just want to love what I'm doing."
"Luckily, we had videotaped one of her early auditions," casting director Jill Anthony said.
"We popped that in, and they saw her on camera and she just jumped off the screen, you know. Those blue eyes."
Sort of on a whim, Alexis decided to audition for a few pilots while she was in college, and Gilmore Girls happened to be one of them!
Despite it being her first-ever audition, and despite having the flu, she landed the role!
I'm sure this made for a rather awkward work dynamic!
She dated her on-screen boyfriend Milo Ventimiglia and even hinted that marriage might have been a possibility for them.
"I think everybody who has been dating for more than a couple years probably talks about it at some point. It's fun for us to talk about," she said.
"She dated Jared and Milo, and she also dated a young New York actor named Chris Heuisler, who played a guest role," the casting director said.
Pretty cute if you ask me.
While it may seem boring to some, personally, I love a good home renovation project.
"I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working," she told Nylon magazine back in 2015.
"My job is very out of my control a lot of the time, because I don't want to get into, like, producing movies, although we are trying to make another Sisterhood movie."
"It certainly wasn't the ending I was expecting. I told Amy that I hoped Rory would end on a high note. After all her hard work, I wanted to see her succeed and be thriving."
"I was hoping that we would see that she had lived an interesting life and had been fulfilled up until this point where her grandfather dies and [she] comes back home."
"Having the time between the end of the series and the beginning of these episodes really gave us a lot of perspective on what this show meant to people and what it means for us, creatively."
"I didn’t even know how to go about doing that ‘cause it was my first job and it went on for so long, which was incredibly fortunate."
"It would be the best thing. Yeah, [I talk to the other girls]. I mean, we don’t get to see each other a lot because everyone has work and family and everything but when everybody’s in town we do, and we just pitched a third movie, and I hope it comes together. It’d be so great. Yeah, we did [pitch it for real]. I’d love it, I would love it."
"I think it could really happen," Lively said. "I think that people who love the movie want to see it. So, I mean, fans have gotten bigger movies made. [Lively's husband Ryan Reynolds'] Deadpool is all thanks to the fans. So I'm saying we'll do it."
Does this change the whole show for you or what?
While it's true that the cups were always filled with something, for Bledel, it was never coffee. She drank soda, instead.
Because of the multiple callbacks, and Bledel not knowing how audtioning worked, she was growing very impatient. But it actually worked in her favor.
"I had a little attitude, and our boss really liked that a lot," Alexis recalled.
“There is so much more to her character. It’s great when people focus on her ambition and her accomplishments.” she said.
"I love the challenge of the role. The physical challenge of shooting in The Colonies just required a commitment to withstanding the elements for a week or so, alongside all the women who were in those scenes."
"So it was easy, keeping that in mind."
"We had to put ourselves through a little bit to do that, but one week of that is nothing compared to what it would actually be. It also looks much worse than it was in actuality.
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