Gilmore Girls‘ Scott Patterson is looking out collection creator Amy Sherman-Palladino for objectifying his character again in Season 3.
In the newest installment of the rewatch podcast I Am All In, TV’s erstwhile Luke Danes recollects feeling uncomfortable whereas filming Season 3, Episode 19, “Keg! Max!” The scene in query — which is embedded above — sees Lauren Graham’s Lorelai and Melissa McCarthy’s Sookie focus on Luke’s butt after Sookie unintentionally makes contact with Luke’s bottom.
“I realized it wasn’t OK, and it didn’t make me feel comfortable at all. It made me feel really embarrassed, actually,” Patterson says. “It’s infuriating to be handled that approach. It is infuriating since you’re being handled like an object. It’s disturbing and it’s disgusting, and I needed to endure that by way of that complete scene and lots of takes. It was all in regards to the butt, the butt, the butt, the butt. When we weren’t filming, we had been sitting down [and] individuals had been nonetheless speaking in regards to the butt, the butt, the butt. It was essentially the most disturbing time I’ve ever spent on that set, and I couldn’t look forward to that day to be over.
“Put yourself in my place,” he continues. “Stand there in front of all those people filming, and this is how the creator of that show sees that character — that you can humiliate him and take away his dignity that entire scene and that’s OK. And it wasn’t OK with me, and I hated that scene… I had to go to work and shoot that. I had to learn those lines. I had to rehearse that scene. I had to shoot that scene many, many, many times. We had to do that scene at a table read with the entire production present — the crew, the cast, all the executives.”
Patterson in the end posits that “it’s as disgusting for women to objectify men as it is for men to objectify women, and it’s as harmful… Just because it was 2003 doesn’t mean it was OK,” he factors out. (*3*)
Listen to the podcast beneath — the dialog in regards to the above-mentioned scene begins on the 39:55 mark — then hit the feedback: Do you assume the scene went too far?
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