Gilmore Girls alum Yanic Truesdale doesn’t know what his character, Michel Gerard, is up to today, but he’s all in to find out in another revival.
“I have not put any kind of thought into that because it’s just been too long,” the Étoile star, 55, exclusively tells Life & Style of where he sees Michel today. “But I would say, because the show is so meaningful to people, because the youth is watching it as if it just came out last year, of course it’d be very hard to turn down more episodes, developing more stories, catching up with all those characters [and] where they are in their lives.”
Yanic continues, “So, you know, for the stars to be aligned as we’re all getting close to a wheelchair, I don’t know if this is going to happen, but who knows? I’m open.”
Even if the opportunity for more Gilmore Girls doesn’t come along, Yanic says he would love to work with some of his former castmates on other projects. He reunited with Melissa McCarthy for God’s Favorite Idiot on Netflix in 2022 and says he would work with her again “in a heartbeat.”
“She’s a really really close friend, and she’s just so brilliant. So I would love that very much,” Yanic adds. “But Lauren [Graham], Kelly [Bishop], I mean all, all of my cast members in Gilmore have a special place in my heart, so I would, if any opportunity would present itself, I would love that. But Melissa is very much in my life, and Lauren, so any of those two, I would say yes in a heartbeat.”
The Canadian American actor played Michel, the grumpy and sarcastic yet beloved French concierge at the Independence Inn and Dragonfly Inn, in all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, which aired on The WB and The CW from 2000 to 2007.
Yanic later reprised his role in the 2016 Netflix revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, where viewers saw Michel consider leaving the Dragonfly unless Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren, 58) expanded it with a spa. He was also in the middle of some exciting personal developments, as he and his husband were about to adopt a child.
Gilmore Girls has continued to be a streaming success on Netflix and, more recently, Hulu, and fans are constantly asking for more episodes to be released. While there has been no official word on another revival, Lauren has expressed interest in reuniting with her former castmates, as well as Kelly, 81, and even series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
“We never said ‘never’ because we didn’t actually intend to do the [revival] for Netflix,” Amy, 59, told TV Insider at PaleyFest 2025. “Then, we all got together for a panel [similar to tonight’s] and we went to a bar afterwards. We all thought, ‘Well, this was fun! Let’s just do it again!’”
She continued, “As you know, I love Stars Hollow. I love Lauren Graham more than life. I love Alexis [Bledel], and Kelly Bishop is my ‘Contessa.’ I bow to her.”
However, the creator confirmed in an interview with E! News, “There’s no talks right now.”
For now, fans can see Yanic as Raphaël Marchand in Étoile, the newest series from Amy and husband Daniel Palladino, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
