She doesn’t scent snow! Melissa McCarthy starred on Gilmore Girls for seven seasons — however filming the beloved present wasn’t at all times a straightforward feat.
“Sometimes we were, like, crammed into small things with coats on but it was actually like 112 degrees in Burbank, [California]. And we were like, ‘Brrr, Connecticut!’” McCarthy, 52, advised Entertainment Weekly in an interview printed on Monday, June 12. “And I was like, ‘Are we explaining why I have Malaria and why I’m in a full flop sweat?’”
Gilmore Girls, which aired on The WB (and later The CW) from 2000 to 2007, adopted mother-daughter duo Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) as they navigated life of their small quirky city of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. While the present was primarily based up north, it filmed in sunny — and sizzling – California.
“When we did our first poster, someone passed out,” the Little Mermaid star continued. “Like, just [passed] out cold because we were all in coats and trying to look blustery and we were just sweating in weird places and [they were] like, ‘Look cold!’”
McCarthy, for her half, portrayed chef Sookie St. James on the multigenerational drama — Lorelai’s greatest good friend and enterprise companion.
While McCarthy starred on all seven seasons of the unique sequence, followers speculated that the Emmy winner won’t make a return for the 2016 Netflix revival after claiming she hadn’t been requested to reprise her function.
“Thanks for the invite, but sadly no one asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow,” the Mike & Molly alum wrote through Twitter in February 2016 after a fan requested her to “come back” to Stars Hollow. “Wish them all the best!!”
Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, in the meantime, advised TV Line earlier that month that she had reached out to McCarthy’s crew — however hadn’t heard something again.
“She’s really f–king busy. But the thing I have said [to her team] is, ‘Look, if Melissa is available and has an afternoon free, I’ll write her a scene,” the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel author defined. “Melissa was one of us. If she has a spare moment to run over [to the set] — even if for just a cameo — we would be totally game,” she continued. “And if it’s a last-minute thing, I would write her in and we would figure it out. That’s the way we left it.”
Two months later, nevertheless, the Boss star introduced that she would make an look someplace within the 4 90-minute episodes — and opened as much as Us Weekly concerning the emotional expertise of returning to set after so a few years.
“I went back and visited about two weeks ago and saw the sets again and everybody on them and it just felt — oh, my God, I get so sentimental. It felt like the greatest idea in the world. It was just lovely. It was just lovely,” she gushed on the time. “There was the longest time when it was just not going to work out, schedule-wise, and then once we decided, like, ‘Is there any possible way?’ Something big fell out for me [and] something changed for them.”
While Sookie solely made a quick look within the “Fall” episode of the revival — the ultimate of the 4 installments — to make Lorelai and Luke’s (Scott Patterson) wedding ceremony cake, McCarthy gave an replace on Monday about the place she thinks her character can be at this time.
“She has like, 42 kids. I think they’re growing weed. I think her and [her husband] Jackson, [portrayed by Jackson Douglas] — she still cooks, but I think [they do] edibles,” she quipped to EW. “I think they run a very nice little mom-and-pop business with their 13 kids and she makes delicious edibles.”
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