Gilmore Girls: Vanessa Marano Touts 'Redemption' For April In Revival

Come hell, high water or Freeform, Vanessa Marano was returning to Stars Hollow.

According to the actress, she was knee-deep into production on Switched at Birth when she was invited to reprise her polarizing role as Luke's daughter April in Netflix's Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. But she was determined not to let one thing interfere with the other. "I was like, 'Listen everybody, I have to do Gilmore Girls,'" she recalled to me Friday at the revival's premiere, which she attended with sister Laura. "Our [Switched at Birth] line producer made it happen."

Marano then presented to me the three reasons she simply had to check a Gilmore revival off her bucket list. "A, Redemption," she said. "And, B, It was my favorite show. And, C, I'm just so excited it's coming back!"[pmc_inline_gallery]

And the icing on the cake for Marano? April's a bit of a basket case when we meet up with her in A Year in the Life (which bows this Friday). "It's great because she doesn't have her stuff together at all," she enthuses. "And I'm so excited about that."

Watch my Marano Q&A above and then check back in the coming hours and days for more from Stars Hollow's elite as TVLine's "18 Days of Gilmore" scoop countdown continues.