‘Gilmore Girls’ star Scott Patterson reveals set pranks, Luke’s origins and Rory’s love life

‘Gilmore Girls’ star Scott Patterson reveals set pranks, Luke’s origins and Rory’s love life

I used to play practical jokes on on certain people and u I don’t know juvenile stuff just to keep the keep it light you know this kind of thing. So I don’t know I did it for a couple seasons then I stopped doing it. You know it’s it’s amazing that people don’t appreciate Vaseline on a toilet seat as much as I thought they would. I’ll never tell. I once nailed somebody’s shoes to the floor of their trailer. But I haven’t seen him in a long time. Um, yeah, I don’t know what’s up with him. Um, but, uh, Sean really, you know, Sean and I are friends. We we do conventions together. We have share an agent. Um, so we see each other frequently on the road and in the hotel. We go to dinner together. Can’t stand my to watch myself. Uh, I think you’ll hear that refrain from a lot of actors. Um, and I just, you know, being there so much, I just didn’t want to, you know, I didn’t want to watch it after I just spent 14 hours doing it. Um, and, uh, yeah, I was quite shocked in 2021 when I started, you know, I had the podcast deal and I came up with the idea. Uh, and they said yes and I started watching the show and I fell in love with it. You know, I hadn’t I’d seen the pilot. I’d seen Winter and the Netflix episodes. I thought they were terrific, but I just I just was in no mood to watch show. But now it’s my job to watch a show and there’s, you know, there’s two decades in between me and the repulsive uh the the repulsion that I feel when I watch myself. So I I didn’t really feel it anymore. It didn’t seem like I knew who that guy was, but I thought, hey, you know, he’s pretty good. Um, so it was a lot of surprise and delight watching watching the show the first time around. I’m not interested in any of them. Uh, I I think they are teenage flings and necessary teenage romances to deepen and uh her heart. Uh, I think she needs to get her act together. I mean, she’s what? She’s a mother now. Eight years, right? I mean, if I’m doing the math correctly, nine years. She’s got a nineyear-old. Um, maybe she’s met somebody else. Uh, you know, maybe it’s one of these guys. I don’t know. Um, but I think, yeah, I think there’s a world where, and please forgive me, I I’m not a television script writer. Um, you know, maybe there’s a world where there’s a new energy introduced into her life and somebody that really, you know, captures her attention and, you know, I I like that new energy theory. So, so I’ll go with that. Basically, I think these three guys had their shot. They blew it. All of them. They had their shot, man. You know, they they all blew it in their own ways. Oh, yeah. No, they’re forever. I mean, that they’ll never change. They’re rock solid, right? Look, you’ve got two people who are wildly independent, don’t need each other to get through life, but want to be with each other. That’s powerful. So, I think that glue stays forever. Yeah, that’s the Luke and Laura are the gorilla glue of the show. Nobody could have anticipated this 25 years ago. We we knew it was a unique and beautifully written show. Uh it was wellreceived by critics uh when it first premiered. Uh we so we knew we had something special. We were all shocked to be in something of such quality. Um, we had, you know, in Amy and Dan Paladino, we have some very courageous artists uh, representing their work and defending their work uh, at every turn. Uh, and that’s why it is the way it is. That’s why this show endures because we had we had showrunners and we had a a pair of creators who uh, who protected the show and and crafted what they wanted to craft. Um, and it’s just a rare thing in the business. It really truly is a rare thing in the business. Um, so yeah. Um, amazing how it’s 25 years later, it’s far more popular than it ever was during its original run. Um, I know the the statistics uh the numbers on Netflix for streaming uh hours and streaming minutes uh in the from September to end of February or uh are extraordinarily high for Gilmore Girls and it’s hadn’t been on the air since 2007. Uh but it’s on streaming everywhere. You know, networks keep uh making deals with Warner Brothers to to stream it. Um, so you know, we’re in the top 10 every for 6 months out of every year in the last four or five years on the Neielson ratings for streaming. Um, so it it is a unique phenomenon in the history of of television. The little engine that could, the proverbial little engine that could uh just a small show from a small network and boom, look at this. So, you know, tell you if it was a stock and I had invested in it a long time ago, I’d be extremely rich today. It’s hard to get to a 100 episodes. It’s hard to get to season two. You know, it’s it’s an impossible business to be in. And we, you know, all of us together with these genius creators defied the odds uh as a group and um you know made something for the world that they continue to consume at at a high rate. Um and um you know you could even go so far as saying that has had some kind of therapeutic effect uh on the population that is exposed to this either directly or indirectly. So, you know, you know, maybe m may maybe it’s uh just one of those unique things that’s just not going to happen again. And uh and I think the more people that gravitate toward it begin to realize there’s really nothing else that makes them feel this way um in a positive sense. You know, it’s it’s it’s just a a a unique combination of narratives going on and styles and iconocclasm and sarcasm and humor and in intellectualism and family values and virtues and, you know, morals. It’s it’s it’s all just all running together um in one show. And somehow it can’t work, but it does on this show. So, there you go. It’s unique.

Scott Patterson, who starred as Luke Danes on “Gilmore Girls,” told The Post that the role was originally supposed to be very different.

“He wasn’t supposed to be a man. He was originally written as a woman, and the network suggested that there’s maybe too many women. I mean, if you can imagine the craziness of that statement. And so, it was made into a man,” Patterson, 67, told The Post.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2025/10/13/entertainment/gilmore-girls-star-scott-patterson-reveals-set-pranks-lukes-origins-rorys-love-life/

#scottpatterson #gilmoregirls

Page Six is your source for celebrity news, gossip, entertainment, pop culture, photos, video and more.

Catch the latest news and gossip here:
https://pagesix.com/
Follow us on:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pagesix/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/PageSix
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/pagesix/

Check out We Hear, our Page Six podcast!

And Page Six Style has the latest news on celebrity style including fashion trends, red carpet photos, and beauty tips.

Catch the latest news here: https://pagesix.com/style/
Follow us on:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/pagesix/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/PageSix