So much fast-talking (and a few dramatic reveals).
17 stars aligned last night. The cast of the Gilmore Girls finally got back together at the ATX TV festival.
Some bombshells were dropped. Huge ones.
1. Has anyone really aged?
USA Today tweeted the photo starring Dean, Emily, Lorelai, Rory and Luke. Oh, and that’s the Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino on the very left.
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Have you noticed that they all look pretty much the same? We don’t even know how celebrities manage to do that.
2. Melissa McCarthy almost wasn’t in the show.
Now, you might notice that Melissa McCarthy aka Sookie isn’t in the picture.
And in a bombshell for the fans, Amy Sherman-Palladino said that she almost wasn’t in the show at all – because the rest of the cast didn’t connect with her.
When the cast and creator sat down at the TV Festival to talk gossip about all the behind the scenes action from the show, it was revealed that Melissa almost didn’t make the cut.
That news makes us make this face:
The creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, wanted Melissa McCarthy in the role of Sookie from the get-go. It was the rest of the crew that weren’t so sure.
“It wasn’t that people didn’t like her, but she was a different energy. She was a different kind of chick,” Amy said. “And the part was just written for a woman, there was no body type, there was nothing specific about it. I was like, ‘I need someone funny who could really act.’”
So thank god she picked the right woman. After a few taped shows, the cast change their minds too (who wouldn’t. She’s bloody hilarious.)
Amy has always said the fight to keep her was entirely worth the tricky struggle. She got pretty philosophical about it at the festival:
“[Melissa McCarthy] is different and different is sometimes not the easiest thing to embrace. But that’s true of life. So if we want people to embrace more Melissa McCarthys and more complicated parts…we got to keep putting them out there. We got to keep writing the parts, we got to keep fighting the fights, we got to keep willing to be fired, saying, ‘You’re wrong, Mr. Person With Money.’ It’s a fight. But anything worth doing is a fight.”
3. Rory’s men? All friends in real life.
This was especially hard.
While the show tried to pit us against our friends, either battling for Team Jess, Team Dean or Team Logan, turns out they are all mates in real life.
Milo Ventimiglia, who played Jess, admitted that he was secretly Team Dean. Jared Padalecki (Dean) stopped our hearts saying he’s Team Jess, and, well, everyone agreed that “Logan was a dick.”
Amen to that.
4. Edward Herrmann hasn’t been forgotten.
After 45 minutes of talking to the crowd, the cast paused in a tribute to late actor, Edward Herrmann. Herrmann, who played Lorelai’s father, Richard Gilmore, passed away late last year from brain cancer. In a beautiful gesture, the cast left an empty chair for their co-star who is dearly missed.
A video montage was played from Herrmann’s best moments in the show, leaving the audience and cast members reaching for their tissues. Amy said that, “Ed was the first one to say he was going to be at this panel…I just miss him and I’m so grateful I got to work with him … he was just driven [and] loving. He was our Mr. President.”
5. It’s a no to a movie – for the time being.
We’ve been speculating about it for a while. But, Amy said a no to a Gilmore Girls movie appearing on our big screens. For the moment.
“I’m sorry, there’s nothing in the works,” the creator told the audience. “Nobody here hates each other. It would have to be the right format, the right timing, the right way, the right budget…” (hint hint)
Although the finale left us wanting more Gilmore Girls, we can’t say that we’re hugely disappointed.
There is nothing worse than a movie ruining the perfection that what the show will always be.
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Top Comments
It's called plastic surgery. That's why they don't age.
Yes it was a silly question to ask
Well if you look at them close, they have all aged.Some better than others.
Jared has aged deliciously!