After more than 150 episodes as Luke Danes,Scott Pattersonis returning to Stars Hollow as a viewer.
I mean, it was on a level like I’ve never seen.
This is my love letter to them."
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For years, Patterson avoided the show.
“I don’t like watching myself,” he says.
“It’s not a good experience for me.”
Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore and Scott Patterson as Luke Danes kiss on “Gilmore Girls.".WB TV
“Enough time has gone by where I can just really appreciate it as a fan.
I’m really enjoying it.”
“We always had such fun on the set and I just loved being that parental figure.
By the season 4 finale, Luke and Lorelai share their first kiss, a moment Patterson remembers well.
“We were nervous, and then we both realized that’s exactly how the characters should feel.
Because the nervousness we were having as actors was, ‘We don’t want to screw this up.’
And and then we both realized this is exactly how we should feel.
We should take this into the scene and we did and got the results.”
Then it would only take three more seasons and a revival for them to finally tie the knot.
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