Melissa McCarthy says her 'Gilmore Girls' character would have '42 kids' and would be 'growing weed' these days

• Melissa McCarthy said her "Gilmore Girls" character would be "growing weed" with "42 kids" today.
• In an interview with Entertainment Weekly Friday, she also said her character would be cooking up "delicious edibles."

Melissa McCarthy is giving "Gilmore Girls" fans a glimpse into what she predicts her character, Sookie St. James, would be up to today.

McCarthy, who played the quirky chef during the show's seven seasons, gave her predictions during an Entertainment Weekly interview published Friday.

"She has like 42 kids," McCarthy said. "I think they're growing weed.

On the show, about a mother and daughter navigating life in a picturesque Connecticut town called Stars Hollow, McCarthy co-owned an inn run by Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham). McCarthy's character was married to and had three kids with the town's vegetable supplier, Jackson Belleville (Jackson Douglas).

"She still cooks, but I think she does edibles," McCarty said. "I think they run a very nice little mom-and-pop business with their 13 kids and she makes delicious edibles," McCarthy added.

Earlier in the conversation, McCarthy shared another behind-the-scenes anecdote from the "Gilmore Girls" set.

"Sometimes we were like crammed into small things with coats on but it was actually like 112 degrees in Burbank," McCarthy said.

As a result, she says the heat became too much for someone on set.

"When we did our first poster, someone passed out," she said. "Like just out cold because we were all in coats and trying to look blustery."

"Gilmore Girls" debuted in 2000 on The WB and was revived in 2016, nine years after its cancellation, for a four-part Netflix series called "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life."

Despite being a leading cast member, McCarthy only made a small cameo in the final episode of the series titled "Fall."

In a May 2023 interview on NBC's "Sunday Today With Willie Geist," McCarthy spoke about the show's legacy.

"It's had legs on it that I didn't expect," McCarthy said. "It has had this generational legacy, young people that watched it, now that they have kids, and they watch it with their kids, and now their kids are watching it with their own friends."