'Gilmore Girls' creator Amy Sherman-Palladino reveals Luke was originally supposed to be a woman

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino revealed that series regular and central character Luke Danes was originally female.

"Luke was originally a female character," Sherman-Palladino said. "[The network] came to me and said we need another guy, so I literally just took a character and changed the name, didn't even change any of the dialogue because I'm that lazy."

Sherman-Palladino also said that changing Daisy (the original character's name) to Luke didn't immediately make him Lorelei's love interest.

"We did a few shows and they just had chemistry," Sherman-Palladino said of Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson, who play Lorelei and Luke.

Graham agreed, saying she felt the characters kept coming back together in spite of the circumstances.

"It's just this funny, weird chemistry that we had in terms of being complete opposites and also this built-in conflict of he has the thing she wants -- which is coffee," Graham said. "But in those first couple years, [Lorelei] had a bunch of different dates. Jon Hamm was one of them. We had Max Medina. It could've gone in any number of ways. It was just something about the two of those characters together that they kept going back to and then it kept growing."

Graham and Alexis Bledel, who plays Lorelei's daughter, Rory, appeared in a PSA a week ahead of the show's release date asking binge-watchers not to spoil the show's famous Last Four Words for those who may not have gotten to watch all four movie-like episodes at once.

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premieres on Netflix on Nov. 25.

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