Jared Padalecki Details His ‘Worst’ Scene From ‘Gilmore Girls’: It Felt Like a ‘Nightmare’
usmagazine.comA moment of panic. Jared Padalecki recalled a “nightmare” experience had filming a scene for Gilmore Girls that he wasn’t prepared for.“I didn’t shoot every day on Gilmore Girls, and on this particular week, I wasn’t needed on set until Friday,” the Walker star, 39, who played Rory’s (Alexis Bledel) first love, Dean, recalled to the Chicago Tribune on Wednesday, March 9, adding that he stayed out with his friends until “three or four in the morning” because he thought he had the following day off.“I think what happened was, Lauren Graham got sick and the scene that she was supposed to film on Tuesday had to be moved,” he recounted. “So they had to film something else — let’s shoot the scene where Dean and Lindsay (Arielle Kebbel) get married and come out of the chapel there in Stars Hollow.”Unfortunately, Padalecki was still asleep when the crew called him to set, which resulted in his manager calling his friend to wake him up. “I had 20 missed calls and text messages. … I shot out of bed, had a cup of coffee and a water, jumped in the shower and then drove over to Warner Bros,” the Supernatural alum explained. “I was probably two hours later than they were hoping and I didn’t have the scene prepared, but I knew the basics of what was going on.”He continued: “Luckily I didn’t really have many lines at first, it was just us coming out of the chapel.
But I ended up having other scenes later that did have dialogue, so at least I had time in the morning where I was in hair and makeup to learn those.”Though the New York Minute actor was able to film his scenes eventually, the moment still looms large in Padalecki’s mind. “It was basically the feeling of that nightmare where you’re naked at school,” he said. “Except unlike
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