Melissa McCarthy is ‘paranoid’ about watching ‘Gilmore Girls’

She can’t look! melissa maccarthy opened up about why it’s so hard for him to watch everything he’s starred in, including gilmore girls.

“I watched [the Gilmore Girls pilot] with Vivianne once, my eldest [daughter]and…it was just, seeing her look at him,” said the Bridesmaids star, 52, during an appearance on Tuesday, May 23 at Today. “I’m always scared too [that] somehow, something [is] It’s going to happen and they’re going to find me in the room watching mine. So I’m super paranoid about it.”

McCarthy went on to explain that gilmore girls It is not the only project that arouses his concerns, he also avoids his entire catalog of films.

“I’m always like, what if I pass out and the paramedics come in and the conclusion is, ‘She’s seeing her own stuff.’ Pretty weird,” she admitted. “It’s all I think about when we turn on [the TV] and it’s me. I’m like, ‘Oh gosh, do I feel dizzy?’ I don’t want to pass out in a room where I’m playing myself [on screen]. I know I shouldn’t talk about it, it makes me sound crazy.”

while the tammy actress can’t bear to watch her show in her spare time, she admires how gilmore girls it has transcended over time as it has been discovered by the younger generation.

“It has had this generation [effect]McCarthy mused. “Young people who saw it [originally], now that they have children, they see him with their children. And your kids watch it with their own friends. He had legs that he really didn’t expect.”

The WB hit, which was written by Amy Sherman-Palladinoran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2007. Along with McCarthy, the series starred in lauren graham and Alexis Bledel as the iconic mother-daughter duo Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. He Little Mermaid The actress, for her part, played Sookie St. James, Lorelai’s best friend and business partner.

“It was a really comforting little world that Amy created and it was a lot of fun for me,” McCarthy recalled. “It was written with such nice people.”

In November 2016, a rerun of the iconic show premiered on Netflix titled Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. While the four-part special ended on a cliffhanger, with Rory revealing to his mother that she is pregnant, a possible second season has not been officially confirmed. However, the cast and its creator are hopeful that they can make it work.

“Believe [we would do more] if the time is right and everyone is in the mood, because that’s how it happened before. We all saw each other at a festival and said, ‘Hey! Nobody hates each other. And I decided to do it,” Sherman-Palladino, 57, said exclusively. us weekly in January 2018.”[It] it could happen again, absolutely.”