Sally Struthers Reveals Funny Side Effect of Starring on 'Gilmore Girls' Nicole MooreOctober 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM 0 Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty Images Sally Struthers is revealing how starring in Gilmore Girls, known for its fast dialogue, affected her as an actress. In an October 2025 interview with The New York Post, Struthers spoke about her role as Stars Hollow resident, Babette Dell, during the show's original sevenseason run and its 2016 fourepisode Netflix reboot, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
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Nicole MooreOctober 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Sally Struthers is revealing how starring in Gilmore Girls, known for its fast dialogue, affected her as an actress.
In an October 2025 interview with The New York Post, Struthers spoke about her role as Stars Hollow resident, Babette Dell, during the show's original seven-season run and its 2016 four-episode Netflix reboot, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. She explained that after Gilmore Girls ended in 2007, she took to the stage to portray Golde in Fiddler on the Roof. However, the director didn't love that she was rushing through her dialogue for the production in Maine. When her director said he was perplexed by how fast she was speaking, Struthers didn't initially know what he was talking about.
She said that she soon realized that she was used to talking quickly because of her tenure on Gilmore Girls. She let the director know that the show's creator,Amy Sherman-Palladino, required the cast to get their lines out quickly because she "writes the script for a one hour television show that's about 8 to 9 pages longer than all other one hour television shows." In addition, Struthers said that Sherman-Palladino's "writing is so brilliant, she doesn't want to cut any of the words."
According to the All in the Family star, she promised the director that she would "slow down" and "play Golde at a normal speaking pace," despite "speaking really fast" during the seven-year production of Gilmore Girls.
Lauren Graham Discussed the Specific Style of the 'Gilmore Girls' Dialogue
While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in October 2025 for Gilmore Girls' 25th anniversary, Lauren Graham, who played Lorelai Gilmore, shared her thoughts about the show's dialogue. The actress said she believes "the writing on this show is like music."
"You wouldn't sing a ballad super speedy and you wouldn't sing a pop song super slowly," said Graham, who starred as Lorelai in both Gilmore Girls and Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.
She also told The Hollywood Reporter she was used to the dialogue because she "did a fair amount of theater and the language [of Gilmore Girls] has a theatrical quality."
"[Y]ou can feel it, you can hear it when you miss a word or when something's out of step, because, even though it's this bubbly stream of consciousness, it's written with an incredible amount of precision. I think it just spoke to what I gravitated towards already," said Graham to The Hollywood Reporter.
In the same Hollywood Reporter interview, Sherman-Palladino said she always intended the show to have a "very fast" pace.
"When a page is a minute a page, by the time Gilmore Girls really got up to speed and in its true form, we were less than 30 seconds a page. We needed twice as many pages to get the same amount of product — but at the time that I did the pilot, nobody believed me," said Sherman-Palladino to the publication.
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