Gilmore To Consider #14: Valerie Campbell Talks Costumes, Gilmore Without Amy & Pizza Belly Flops

Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast

Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh

Leisure, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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This week, our guest Valerie Campbell was the key set costumer for the entire original series and revival of Gilmore girls. We talked to her about what it's like to rewatch the show now, what are her favorite memories from working in Stars Hollow for so long, and what changed in the set dynamic after the departure of Amy Sherman Palladino.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Gilmore to Consider with Tara and Haley. I'm Tara. This is
0:12.8	Haley. Hi, Haley. Hi, Tara. We have a very exciting episode today. I know. I'm so excited for this one.
0:18.9	We sat down with Valerie Campbell, who was a key set
0:21.0	costumer on Gilmore Girls from 2000 to 2007, and then also was the supervisor for the
0:26.1	revival. And just about the nicest person you can talk to. Oh, truly the sweetest, the kindest.
0:32.2	She's just such a love. It was so, so special to sit down with her and talk about behind the scenes,
0:38.5	about the costumes,
0:40.2	about her experience on Gilmore Girls.
0:44.5	She has such a good memory of things that happened behind the scenes for the show that happened so long ago and also provides us with some context with some really big moments that happened
0:49.7	behind the scenes on this show.
0:51.7	So let's get into it.
0:53.4	Valerie, hi, we're so happy to have you here. Welcome
0:56.4	to Gilmore to say. Oh, thank you. You know, this is exciting for several reasons. The first being
1:02.2	that you are our very first guest on the pod that has worked on the show. Wow.
1:06.6	Which is very, very cool. But the second is actually more specific to me. I don't know if you know this
1:11.4	about me because we have only connected through TikTok and I don't really talk about this on my
1:14.9	TikTok, but I have spent since I moved to New York in 2014 the last almost 10 years doing
1:20.6	costumes for Broadway and off-Broadway shows. That is amazing. You know what? I only learned it
1:25.3	about five seconds before when Haley was talking. And I was like, how is this? I didn't know this. And I'm so bummed. I was just in New York. We finished. We went to the Fan Fest Society. You know, they used to do Gilmore Girl Fan Fest. They're still Gilmore Girl related. It's called the FanFest Society.
1:45.0	And they're in, we were in Maine. And then we travel. A gunquit, right? A gunquit. And then I traveled
1:50.6	down to Boston, hung out with some Gilmore fans and some of my TikTok creators and friends. And I was like, man, we could have met up in
2:02.1	New York. I know. I only know a couple people that work in New York in costumes, mostly in,
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