How the Gilmore Girls Team Remembered Their Late Costar Edward Herrmann, On-Screen and Off

Pinterest When the residents of Stars Hollow reconvened for Netflix’s highly-anticipated revival series Gilmore Girls: A Year In the Life, one key member of the Gilmore family was missing: Edward Herrmann. The actor, who played the distinguished family patriarch Richard Gilmore for seven seasons on the original Gilmore Girls series, passed away in 2014 at age 71 after a battle with brain cancer. In the revival, which debuts Nov. 26, the cast and crew made certain he was there in spirit. His character Richard has also died on the show — but his memory provides key story points as his family processes his loss. While filming, Herrmann’s set family was able to work through their own feelings about his passing as the material paid loving tribute to their cosstar. “It was really a big day to walk on the Gilmore stage without Ed, but there were tears of joy all over the place as well,” Lauren Graham told PEOPLE at the premiere of the new series at Los Angeles’ Fox Bruin Theater on Friday. “I really was deeply fond of Ed,” actress Kelly Bishop explained. She shared a plethora of screen time with Herrmann, playing his on-screen wife Emily Gilmore. “We were set buddies — we hung out together,” she said. “We did crossword puzzles together, occasionally had a drink after the show, and stayed in touch, mainly via email. So I knew it was going to be sad, but when I read the script, I thought he was so much a part of the show.” She added: “I told his wife that it was going to be bittersweet. She was going to be sad, but very proud because he’s as much a part of the show as if he were still with us. … I think it was wonderfully handled, frankly.” Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino recalled how shocked the Gilmore Girls team was to learn of Herrmann’s passing, shortly before the long-speculated series revival became a reality. “When he died it really felt like, it was weird because he died not too long before we had our [cast] reunion in Austin [at the 2015 ATX Television Festival],” Sherman-Palladino revealed. “So we were all very raw, and it was a big surprise, and we didn’t really know he was sick because he was very proud – he was a proud dude. He was dad.” “It rocked our world so much,” she continued. “And it’s obviously going to rock Lorelai, Rory and especially Emily’s world so much that that seemed like a good place to chime in. And in chiming in, and seeing how that would affect them, it felt like it was a good way to honor him.” Bishop said that because Lorelai and Emily’s journeys are about the loss of Richard, the show felt special. “I lost a husband — she lost a parent — there was so much more heft to the scenes, and there was a lot of emotion at times,” she said. “I mean, it wasn’t […]

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