Milo Ventimiglia Would Sign On To More Gilmore Girls Under One Condition – Looper

During a 2021 chat with his former on-screen uncle Scott Patterson, Ventimiglia said he’d probably be down for more Jess if the rest of the “Gilmore” crew also returned.

“If they did want to bring it back and if it was [original creators and showrunners] Amy [Sherman-Palladino] and Dan [Palladino] at the helm and you guys were all showing up, I’d be a jerk not to show up,” Ventimiglia said on Patterson’s “I’m All In” podcast.

Beyond a sense of obligation to the show that put him on the map, Ventimiglia sounded a little conflicted about the creative prospects for more “Gilmore Girls.” On the one hand, he seemed genuinely impressed by how “A Year in the Life” came out, to the extent of feeling like, “It didn’t seem like television anymore, it seemed like it had graduated into something. It morphed into the film world.” On the other hand, he noted that he wants to play a lot of parts in his career, which might imply that he’d rather not keep going back to the same well unless there’s a compelling reason. While Ventimiglia didn’t state anything with certainty, he did offer a dessert-based metaphor.

“The way that I look at it is the four films that were put together after the fact, that felt like the extra slice of cake after you already had cake,” he said. “You had that favorite meal. You had the cake and then you got something even extra. I don’t know if they would bring it back.”

We hate to admit it, but the sad fact of the matter is that there is such a thing as too much cake.