He doesn’t smell snow! Melissa McCarthy starred on Gilmore Girls for seven seasons — but filming the beloved show wasn’t always an easy feat.

“Sometimes we got caught in little things with coats, but it was really like 112 degrees in Burbank, [California], And we were like, ‘Brr, Connecticut!’ McCarthy, 52, told Entertainment Weekly In an interview published on Monday, June 12.And I was like, ‘Are we going to explain why I have malaria and why I’m sweating?’

Gilmore Girlswhich aired on The WB (and later The CW) from 2000 to 2007, followed by mother-daughter duo Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) as he navigated life in his quaint little town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. While the show was based in the North, it was filmed in sunny – and warm – California.

“When we made our first poster, someone passed out,” the little Mermaid Tara continued. “Like, just [passed] out cold because we were all in coats and trying to look dusky and we were just sweating in weird places and [they were] Like, ‘Looking cold!’

McCarthy, for her part, portrayed chef Sookie St. James as Lorelai’s best friend and business partner in the multi-generational drama.

While McCarthy starred in all seven seasons of the original series, fans speculated that the Emmy winner might not return for the 2016 Netflix revival after claiming she was not asked to reprise her role. Was.

“Thanks for the invite, but sadly no one asked me or Sookie to come back to Stars Hollow,” the mike and molly alum wrote in February 2016 via Twitter after a fan asked her to “come back” to Stars Hollow. “Best wishes to them!!”

Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladinotold during tv line Earlier that month she had reached out to McCarthy’s team — but had not heard anything back.

“He’s really busy. But what I said [to her team] is, ‘Look, if Melissa’s available and she has an afternoon free, I’ll write a scene for her,’ the wonderful mrs maisel The author explained. “Melissa was one of us. if he has a spare moment to run [to the set] — even if just for a cameo — we’d be totally game,” she continued. “And if it’s a last-minute thing, I’ll text her and we’ll figure it out. That’s how we left it.

Two months later, however, boss The star announced she would appear in four 90-minute episodes of Somewhere – and opened up us weekly On the emotional experience of returning to the sets after so many years.

“I went back and visited about two weeks ago and revisited the set and looked at everyone on them and felt like – oh my god, I got so emotional. It felt like the greatest idea in the world. It was so lovely.” It was lovely,” she gushed at the time. “The longest was when it wasn’t working, schedule-wise, and then once we decided, like, ‘Is there any possible way? ‘ something big fell for me [and] Something has changed for them.

While Sookie made only a brief appearance in the revival’s “Fall” episode – the last of the four installments – Lorelai and Luke’s (Scott Patterson) Wedding Cake, McCarthy gave an update on Monday about where she thinks her character would be today.

“He has 42 children. I think they’re growing weed. I think he and [her husband] jackson, [portrayed by Jackson Douglas] – She still cooks, but I think [they do] edibles,” she quipped to EW. “I think they run a pretty cool little mom-and-pop business with their 13 kids and she makes delicious foods.”