Rare is the television actress, Edie Falco being one of the few, who can leap from one indelible lead role to another and somehow make us forget the first one. Lauren Graham has done just that in the past two seasons of the NBC family drama Parenthood. Leaving her chatty Gilmore Girls persona behind, Graham infuses the same likability she did as young mom Lorelai Gilmore on the WB/CW dramedy into Parenthood's Sarah Braverman, whose heavy troubles — dealing with a deadbeat ex-husband, raising two hormone-heavy teens, living with Mom and Dad, to name a few — are at once heart-wrenching and totally relatable. Here, the Emmy hopeful, 44, reflects on her second round at TV motherhood, what it means to trust her showrunner and how Parenthood has turned her into someone "who can barely get through a scene without crying."
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