Watch: Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham Reunites With Scott Patterson on Red Carpet for First Time in 9 YearsScott Patterson's next mission, should he choose to accept it? Keeping a straight face. Though the Gilmore Girls star feels nothing but admiration for the show's "iconoclastic sort of irreverence," there was one joke the actor who brought Luke Danes to life had trouble delivering. "I'm a fan of Tom Cruise, how can you not be?" Scott prefaced during an exclusive interview with E! News. "But Luke had a line-I think Kirk came in and I told him, 'There's nowhere to sit. Everything's taken.