Melissa McCarthy says her 'Gilmore Women' character would have '42 youngsters' and could be 'rising weed' nowadays

• Melissa McCarthy stated her “Gilmore Women” character could be “rising weed” with “42 youngsters” right this moment. 
• In an interview with Leisure Weekly Friday, she additionally stated her character could be cooking up “scrumptious edibles.”
• McCarthy performed chef Sookie St. James on all seven seasons of “Gilmore Women.”

Melissa McCarthy is giving “Gilmore Women” followers a glimpse into what she predicts her character, Sookie St. James, could be as much as right this moment. 

McCarthy, who performed the quirky chef throughout the present’s seven seasons, gave her predictions throughout an Leisure Weekly interview revealed Friday.

“She has like 42 youngsters,” McCarthy stated. “I believe they’re rising weed. 

On the present, a couple of mom and daughter navigating life in a picturesque Connecticut city known as Stars Hole, McCarthy co-owned an inn run by Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham). McCarthy’s character was married to and had three youngsters with the city’s vegetable provider, Jackson Belleville (Jackson Douglas).

“She nonetheless cooks, however I believe she does edibles,” McCarty stated. “I believe they run a really good little mom-and-pop enterprise with their 13 youngsters and she or he makes scrumptious edibles,” McCarthy added.

Earlier within the dialog, McCarthy shared one other behind-the-scenes anecdote from the “Gilmore Women” set. 

“Typically we had been like crammed into small issues with coats on but it surely was really like 112 levels in Burbank,” McCarthy stated.

In consequence, she says the warmth grew to become an excessive amount of for somebody on set. 

“Once we did our first poster, somebody handed out,” she stated. “Like simply out chilly as a result of we had been all in coats and making an attempt to look blustery.”

“Gilmore Women” debuted in 2000 on The WB and was revived in 2016, 9 years after its cancellation, for a four-part Netflix sequence known as “Gilmore Women: A 12 months within the Life.” 

Regardless of being a number one solid member, McCarthy solely made a small cameo within the ultimate episode of the sequence titled “Fall.”

In a Might 2023 interview on NBC’s “Sunday Immediately With Willie Geist,” McCarthy spoke in regards to the present’s legacy.

“It is had legs on it that I did not count on,” McCarthy stated. “It has had this generational legacy, younger those who watched it, now that they’ve youngsters, they usually watch it with their youngsters, and now their youngsters are watching it with their very own mates.”