He says he “can’t share much,” but Scott Patterson can be forgiven for withholding certain pieces of information.
Ahead of the highly-anticipated Gilmore Girls: a Year In The Life on Netflix (debuts November 25th), Patterson talked with People Magazine about what it was like shooting the four-part series.
“I can tell you that we are together,” Patterson said of his character, Luke’s status with Lorelai, played by Lauren Graham.
“We are together and we’re sort of figuring out our next step.”
The show aired from 2000 to 2007, but to Patterson, getting back together with the cast and crew felt like no time had passed.
“That came immediately, that’s never been an issue,” Patterson said.”That’s part of why the show is so successful I mean, [creator Amy Sherman-Palladino] cast the right people.”
What was an issue for Patterson was getting back into character.
“My first rehearsal, I just struggled – I was like, ‘I don’t feel this guy anymore,’ ” he remembers.
“My first rehearsal, I went to Amy and I said, ‘I don’t feel this, I got to walk around Stars Hollow. I gotta walk around the set and get the old feeling back.’ So I did. I took about a 10-minute walk, I went through the town and I got it. I felt ready.
And I came back in and rehearsed the scene and I thought, ‘I’ve got him."”
LUKE IS BACK!
One person missing from the reunion is Edward Hermann (who played Richard Gilmore).
Hermann passed away at age 71 two years ago, and Patterson says the loss is palpable both personally and professionally.
“Losing Ed, it left just a gaping hole and it was so tragic and so shocking to lose him,” Patterson shared.
“But as far as the storytelling was concerned, it really deepened the scripts and affected the tone of a lot of it – and especially our characters and how we related to one another.”
Patterson assured fans that the show will pay tribute to Hermann’s character in a beautiful way.
“On the first day on the Gilmore house set, there were some things there that nobody had seen before that we saw that were so moving, that we all kind of had to sit down,” Patterson explained, careful not to give too much away.
“Fans are going to be very touched by how Amy has shown her respect and paid her homage to him.”
