characters

Jilly Cooper knew how to keep her reader hooked, weaving together a bewildering variety of characters and constantly switching the narrative.

Regardless of which team fans are on regarding Rory’s boyfriends or which of the memorable recurring characters is their favorite, most can agree that they want to see more of the Gilmores and Stars Hollow.

To make matters worse, these details, customary in a biopic, are stylized to capitalize the characters’ names, just like how they’d be written in the screenplay.

But because Jem, like so many of these characters, is underwritten, Bean has to fall back on generalized manly intensity, which turns their showdowns into actorly exercises.

“When I think about things, I kind of convert them into cartoon characters,” explained Shilling in her cheerful, singsong voice.