Before she played Megan in Bridesmaids or the smack-talking cop in The Heat, funny woman Melissa McCarthy was Sookie St. James on Gilmore Girls. While Rory and Lane were definitely BFF goals, Lorelai’s friendship with Sookie was one for the books. So when Netflix announced their revival of the beloved series, fans held onto hope that Sookie would return to Stars Hollow. And she did!
In fact, she has already filmed her scenes for the upcoming reboot. And let’s just say, not much has changed for McCarthy when it comes to her feelings about her old stomping grounds. “I just visited the set and everything about it felt like home. Seeing Stars Hollow, I realized I had missed it way more than I had thought,” the star said in an interview with Time during the Time 100 Gala.
It also turns out that we’re not the only ones who feel all gushy inside when we think about the Gilmore gang. “Oh, my God, it was so sad. I got so sentimental. And it felt like the greatest idea in the world. It was lovely.”
We expected nothing less.