Gilmore Girls: Melissa McCarthy to play Sookie in Netflix reboot after all

McCarthy will be returning to Stars Hollow to shoot her scenes in the coming days

Sookie St James is making her well overdue comeback on Gilmore Girls after Melissa McCarthy agreed to reprise the role in Netflix’s reboot.

The comic actress was not originally asked to return, but following discussions with creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, it has been confirmed that she will appear in the four-part continuation.

“I’m going to go back and do it,” she told Ellen DeGeneres. “Amy is going to squeeze me in to do it. I’m very happy to go back to Stars Hollow.”

Sherman-Palladino had spoken previously about what she would like McCarthy to do, emphasising that it need not take too much time out of her “f**king busy” schedule.

“I know what the scene is. I’ll pre-light it for her. She can drive up, run in, shoot it and run out,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “I can get her in and out in two hours.”

Sherman-Palladino said in February that McCarthy’s schedule was the only reason she wasn’t written into the reboot from the beginning, but McCarthy responded on Twitter saying she had not been invited.

Fortunately, any bad blood has been clear up, with McCarthy reportedly set to shoot her scenes next week. What they might involve remains a mystery...