Melissa McCarthy Reveals Worst Part About Being on ‘Gilmore Girls’

She doesn’t odor snow! Melissa McCarthy starred on Gilmore Girls for seven seasons — however filming the beloved present wasn’t all the time a straightforward feat. 

“Typically we had been, like, crammed into small issues with coats on nevertheless it was really like 112 levels in Burbank, [California]. And we had been like, ‘Brrr, Connecticut!’” McCarthy, 52, informed Entertainment Weekly in an interview printed on Monday, June 12. “And I used to be like, ‘Are we explaining why I’ve Malaria and why I’m in a full flop sweat?’” 

Gilmore Ladies, 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 Hole, Connecticut. Whereas the present was primarily based up north, it filmed in sunny — and sizzling – California. 

“After we did our first poster, somebody handed out,” the Little Mermaid star continued. “Like, simply [passed] out chilly as a result of we had been all in coats and making an attempt to look blustery and we were just sweating in weird places and [they were] like, ‘Look chilly!’” 

McCarthy, for her half, portrayed chef Sookie St. James on the multigenerational drama — Lorelai’s finest buddy and enterprise accomplice. 

Whereas McCarthy starred on all seven seasons of the unique collection, followers speculated that the Emmy winner won’t make a return for the 2016 Netflix revival after claiming she hadn’t been asked to reprise her function. 

“Thanks for the invite, however sadly nobody requested me or Sookie to return again to Stars Hole,” the Mike & Molly alum wrote by way of Twitter in February 2016 after a fan requested her to “come again” to Stars Hole. “Want all of them the most effective!!”

Gilmore Ladies creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, in the meantime, informed TV Line earlier that month that she had reached out to McCarthy’s workforce — however hadn’t heard something again. 

“She’s actually f–king busy. However the factor I’ve mentioned [to her team] is, ‘Look, if Melissa is offered and has a day free, I’ll write her a scene,” the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel author defined. “Melissa was one in all us. If she has a spare second to run over [to the set] — even when for only a cameo — we might be completely sport,” she continued. “And if it’s a last-minute factor, I’d write her in and we’d determine it out. That’s the best 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 about the emotional experience of returning to set after so a few years. 

“I went again and visited about two weeks in the past and noticed the units once more and all people on them and it simply felt — oh, my God, I get so sentimental. It felt like the greatest idea in the world. It was simply beautiful. It was simply beautiful,” she gushed on the time. “There was the longest time when it was simply not going to work out, schedule-wise, after which as soon as we determined, like, ‘Is there any doable approach?’ One thing large fell out for me [and] one thing modified for them.” 

Whereas Sookie solely made a brief appearance in the “Fall” episode of the revival — the ultimate of the 4 installments — to make Lorelai and Luke’s (Scott Patterson) marriage ceremony cake, McCarthy gave an replace on Monday about the place she thinks her character could be at the moment. 

“She has like, 42 youngsters. I believe they’re rising weed. I believe her and [her husband] Jackson, [portrayed by Jackson Douglas]  — she nonetheless cooks, however I believe [they do] edibles,” she quipped to EW. “I believe they run a really good little mom-and-pop enterprise with their 13 youngsters and she or he makes scrumptious edibles.”