tavis: you invite your friend to class to film you and she ends up being on the gilmore girlsed. you look back on those "gilmore girls" days now and think what? retrospect is >> so much of it is a blur. the first couple of years are just such a blur because i was learning so much and we just had to memorize so many words that that was mostly what was going on in my head for many, many years, those lines. but i see it so differently now. at the time i felt like, i was so busy, i just didn't know what to think and now i just appreciate it so much because it was, i mean it's rare that a show goes on for so long and that it's beloved boyoys many people. so i just feel so blessed at this point. tavis: blessed is one side which is a beautiful thing, to feel blessed with a project, the flipside to that in this business is being type cast. i get the sense are you being allowed to move beyond that. you don't feel burdened by that past? how long it ran? >> it's funny, because it was so long i sometimes will fall into bad habits and i try very hard to break or -- into an old comfortable way