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Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
The show’s premise is oddly serious for a sitcom: Posey’s character, Sarah, plans to conceive a child with a sperm donor and her own egg, then have estranged sister Coco move into her Brooklyn loft and carry the baby for her.
Ambrose struggles to imagine being a real-life surrogate mom.
“Well, if the conditions were right,” she said after a moment. “But I’d have to be pretty Zenned-out.”
The actress acknowledges being intense and passionate by nature.
“Sometimes I’m, maybe, too passionate. And then I’m devastated by things and disappointed often.”
Her latest devastation: learning that she is allergic to chocolate.
Ambrose, who was born in Connecticut with the last name D’Ambruoso, grew up in a food-centric household of Italian-Americans. Her father, she said, is a caterer at Amarante’s in New Haven, “a big, Italian, wedding-extravaganza place.”
She looks exactly like her paternal grandmother, a redhead, she said, adding: “There’s red hair on both sides of the family. My mother made me promise to never dye my hair. ‘It’ll never come back,’ she said. I don’t know if I can live up to that — actresses are always asked to do crazy things.”
So far, though, so good.

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