Melissa McCarthy says no one even asked her to come back for the Gilmore Girls revival
The news that Gilmore Girls would be coming back for a new season on Netflix came with one unfortunate asterisk: Melissa McCarthy, who played Lorelai's best friend Sookie, was not expected to return. In an interview with TV Line, creator Amy Sherman-Palladino said working around McCarthy's "crazypants schedule," which includes the upcoming Ghostbusters movie, would have been "impossible."
But Sherman-Palladino also indicated that McCarthy's team had turned down the possibility of McCarthy making any kind of Gilmore Girls appearance. "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," Sherman-Palladino said. "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."
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