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For “Gilmore Girls” star Jared Padalecki, an embarrassing incident changed the way he prepared for his roles and scenes going forward. As he told the Chicago Tribune, it was a Monday, and he hadn’t been due to be back on the set until Friday. So, 20-year-old Padalecki stayed up very late, hanging out with his friends and playing video games. When the show, his agent, and his manager began calling him at 7 a.m. to come in to film the scene in which he and Lindsay (Arielle Kebbel) have just been married, Padalecki was sound asleep. “I was probably two hours later than they were hoping and I didn’t have the scene prepared, but I knew the basics of what was going on,” he said.
The event embarrassed Padalecki so much that now he’s “known for my over-preparation. If there’s any scene in the episode we’re shooting, I know it backward and forward, because I don’t want to have that feeling again,” he said. “But that memory is one of those mortifying moments that motivates me to get up at 5 a.m. and know all my lines.”
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His story is definitely one that many can relate to, and in Padalecki’s case, he quickly learned from it. “On that day, I didn’t give myself the chance to do the best storytelling that I could have otherwise done,” he surmised. “So you’re really just kind of stealing from yourself when you’re not prepared.”
