Gilmore Girls must be one of funniest tv series of all time, right? The quick jokes between Lorelai and Rory, the uniqueness of Stars Hollow, the Passionate topics from Team Dean / Team Jess / Team Logan . However, nothing is ever perfect, and Scott Patterson, who Luke Danes, the restorer played by experts for all seven seasons of the Netflix series and miniseries, he made it clear that he felt objectified during a third season scene that he still felt “maddening”.
on his podcast I bet everything , Scott Patterson was talking about the episode “Keg! Maximum! which included a scene where Luke was lying face down helping Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Sookie (Melissa McCarthy, whose career took off later Gilmore Girls ) with repairs to his Dragonfly Inn. The women commented on her butt, and even after telling them to take it off, Lorelai continued to tease and compliment her butt.
Apparently reviewing the episode sparked a lot of pent-up emotions for Patterson, who recalled how uncomfortable he was filming that scene. He remembered:
I could tell it wasn’t fair and it didn’t make me feel comfortable at all. It made me feel very embarrassed, actually. It’s maddening that they treat you like that, it’s maddening, because they treat you like an object. It’s creepy and disgusting, and I had to put up with it for the whole scene and a lot of takes. It was all about butt, butt, butt, butt. When we weren’t shooting, we were sitting, people were still talking about butt, butt, butt. It was the creepiest moment I’ve ever had on this set and I couldn’t wait for this day to end.
Regardless of whether it was appropriate for the characters to behave this way (it wasn’t), Scott Patterson’s body and butt were always the subject of conversation in a scene he had to do during the table readings, then the repetitions and the multiple shots. on the tray. And he noticed that the conversation about his butt continued between the cast and crew even after the cameras stopped rolling.
He talked about it at length on the podcast, admitting that he was so uncomfortable with his character being scaled down in such a way that he wondered why he was doing the show. Scott Patterson also said he never talked about his feelings about him, which made him even angrier. He continued:
It is just as disgusting for women to objectify men as it is for men to objectify women, and it is just as harmful. … Just because it was 2003 doesn’t mean it was good. It never goes well, and I didn’t feel comfortable doing it, and it pissed me off. And I never said anything, so I was mad at myself for never saying anything. But I had this job and I didn’t want to cause a stir and all.
It’s true that times have changed and it’s hard to believe this scene would have happened had the show been shot today, but that doesn’t mean it was right to do it even then. When he said she was done (but then he laughed and said of course I did not go about it), he felt that this scene not only reduced the character of Luke to a body part, but also reduced the characters of Lorelai and Sookie.
I’m sure as awkward as filming this scene was, it wasn’t easy to talk about in the podcast and why being objectified in this way annoyed Scott Patterson. However, it is important to talk about these things, so that similar situations can be avoided in today’s televisions.
If you want to relive some of the best moments from Stars Hollow, all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls and the four-part miniseries is available to stream with a netflix subscription . You can also see some of the others The best shows Netflix has to offer. .
Source: Cinemablend
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