After months of Melissa McCarthy denying she would be reprising her role as Sookie St. James in Netflix's upcoming "Gilmore Girls" revival, the actress finally confirmed that she will be returning to Stars Hallow. McCarthy announced the exciting news Thursday during an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
"There is something I've been asked about so, so many times, and it hasn't worked out," McCarthy told DeGeneres. "They're making four new movies of the 'Gilmore Girls,' which is a show that was near and dear to my heart for four years, and we could not get those schedules to work... There was a whole thing, and then I was going to be out of the country, and, literally, about an hour and a half ago, we figured out that I'm going to go back and do it, and I am so excited! They're going to be amazing."
When the "Gilmore Girls" revival was first announced in January, McCarthy told her Twitter followers that she was not even asked back to be a part of the show. "...sadly no one asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow. Wish them all the best," she wrote in early February.
Before McCarthy revealed she would be returning to the beloved series that starred Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as a mother-daughter duo, McCarthy said she would be "very surprised if that happens" in reference to her returning to the show.
"Gilmore Girls" executive producer Amy Sherman-Palladino previously said she wanted the actress to return to the revival series, despite there being a conflict of schedules. "I know what the scene is. I'll pre-light it for her. She can drive up, run in, shoot it and run out," she said. "I can get her in and out in two hours. If she finds that time, I don't care when it is, we will make it happen."
Production on the "Gilmore Girls" revival is already underway in Los Angeles and will include most of its original cast members - including Graham, Bledel, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Jared Padalecki and Milo Ventimiglia - as well as "Younger" star Sutton Foster, who is playing a new character. The show will pick up about eight years after the seventh season aired. Series creator Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino are both writing and directing all four of the new mini-movies, which will all be 90 minutes long. Each episode, or chapter, will represent one of the four seasons over the course of a year and will be titled "Winter," Spring," Summer" and "Fall."
