Lauren Graham will “always say yes” to returning to Stars Hollow.
The actress, who played Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls, opposite Alexis Bledel, for seven seasons, was recently asked on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon if she would return for a potential reboot.
“I would, yes! I always say yes because it’s the best part I ever had, and I love doing it,” Graham said. “It was the perfect material at the perfect time with the perfect writer, and it just means so much to me.”
The WB/CW dramedy, which ran from 2000 to 2007, centered around the relationship between thirtysomething single mother Lorelai and her teen daughter Rory (Bledel) living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut. The cast also included Melissa McCarthy, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Keiko Agena, Yanic Truesdale, Sean Gunn, Liza Weil and the late Edward Herrmann.
In 2016, Graham reprised her role in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, a four-episode revival set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series. It followed Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.
The Z-Suite actress added to host Jimmy Fallon, “I will say it can be strange at times because on the one hand, some people are starting to say, ‘You raised me,’ and I’m like, ‘I hope there were other adults involved.’ And then on the other hand, people are like, ‘Oh, I just have the show on in the background. It puts my dog to sleep. We’re not even listening anymore. It’s just on like background music.’”
While Gilmore Girls was a hit in the early 2000s, the beloved show has continued to find second or third generations of viewers over the years. The show has also become an autumn staple for many. The Hollywood Reporter reported last year, based on several years of streaming data, that the show has gotten a significant boost in viewing every autumn since 2021, when Nielsen began issuing weekly top 10 lists of original and acquired streaming shows in the United States.
“You couldn’t plan for that,” series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino previously told THR of the show’s success, even years later. “This business is about luck and alchemy. The stars have to align — you’ve got to get the right idea at the right time, and the right actors and the right moment at the right network or studio. Everything has to align for a show to even survive past the pilot. This was just a charmed, wonderful accident — the best kind of accident.”