Luke is ready to pour more coffee.
Scott Patterson, who starred as Luke Danes on “Gilmore Girls,” said he’d be game to reprise the role.
“I’d love to do a Christmas special,” Patterson, 67, exclusively told The Post.
Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson in “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection
Scott Patterson in “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett CollectionHe added, “The fans want content, so we’re doing our darnedest to get it to them. So maybe it’ll happen again, hopefully in a Christmas special that Amy and Lauren are talking about. I think there’s some intention there. But, who knows.”
The show’s creator, Amy Sherman Palladino, and star Lauren Graham both remarked in interviews this year that they’d be interested in a “Gilmore Girls” Christmas special.
Since both of them have publicly commented on it, Patterson said, “I don’t know that that’s an accident. I think maybe they’re signaling to each other that that is what they want, what they could do and manage in their busy schedule.”
Patterson, who currently stars in “Sullivan’s Crossing,” said, “I’m going to go ahead and communicate the same thing.”
Patterson was reflecting on the show in honor of its 25th anniversary, as it originally premiered in October 2000.
The beloved family drama aired from 2000 to 2007 on The WB (which then became the CW) before it briefly returned for a 2016 Netflix revival, “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.”
“Gilmore Girls” was set in the fictional quaint town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, and followed former teen mom Lorelai (Graham) as she raised her precocious teen daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel).
Scott Patterson, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel in “Gilmore Girls.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection
Scott Patterson in his video interview with The Post. The New York PostSupporting characters included Lorelai’s diner-owning, hat-wearing love interest Luke (Patterson), Lorelai’s difficult mother, Emily (Kelly Bishop), Luke’s nephew Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory’s first boyfriend, Dean (Jared Padalecki), local town weirdo Kirk (Sean Gunn), and Lorelai’s best friend, Sookie (Melissa McCarthy).
The show’s 2016 Netflix revival was controversial to fans, since it ended with Rory getting pregnant, and didn’t reveal who the baby’s father was.
Patterson, who only started watching “Gilmore Girls” in 2021 for his iHeartRadio podcast, “I Am All In … Again!,” also wasn’t impressed by Rory’s behavior.
“I’m not interested in any of them,” he said, referring to Jess, Dean, or Rory’s old college boyfriend Logan (Matt Czuchry).
Scott Patterson and Lauren Graham in “Gilmore Girls.” ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Co
Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson in “Gilmore Girls.” ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Co“I think they are teenage flings and necessary teenage romances to deepen her heart. I think she needs to get her act together.”
He pointed out that Rory is a mother now, following the events of “A Year in the Life.”
“And if I’m doing the math correctly, she’s got a 9-year-old … And please forgive me. I’m not a television scriptwriter — but maybe there’s a world where there’s a new energy introduced into her life, and somebody [new] that really captures her attention.”
The “Gilmore Girls” cast (clockwise from top left): Keiko Agena, Yanic Truesdale, Liza Weil, Kelly Bishop, Edward Herrmann, Melissa McCarthy, Liz Torres, Sean Gunn, Jared Padalecki, Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, Milo Ventimiglia. ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Scott Patterson and Lauren Graham in “Gilmore Girls.” ©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett CoIf “Gilmore Girls” returns for a Christmas special, he’s optimistic that Luke and Lorelai are still together, he said.
“They’re forever. I mean, they’ll never change. They’re rock solid.”
He added that Luke and Lorelai are “two people who are wildly independent. They don’t need each other to get through life, but want to be with each other. That’s powerful. So, I think that glue stays.”
