Post Grad

exas native Alexis Bledel made her television debut in 2000, with the CW's hit series, "Gilmore Girls." The 27-year-old actress spent seven years playing the scholarly daughter of a single mom on the show, which won a number of awards including an Emmy in 2004. Now Ms. Bledel has grown up and is starring in two big-screen films this year, including "The Good Guy," an independent film about young men on Wall Street and their dating habits, and the coming film "Post Grad," which tells the story of a girl who, after graduating from college, moves back into her childhood home and is forced to grapple with the untimely collision of unemployment and her oddball family. ("Post Grad" is being released by Twentieth Century Fox, which like Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp.) Ms. Bledel spoke with The Wall Street Journal just before "The Good Guy" premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.

"...I read the script of "Post Grad" two or three years before I got it from my agent because I knew the writer through a friend. And when I read it the first time, I thought it seemed really relevant to my generation..."

Read the full interview here.