Jared Padalecki wasn’t even conscious for one of his most pivotal scenes in season 1 of Gilmore Girls.

“The hours on Gilmore Girls were pretty intense,” Padalecki, 43, says in Us Weekly’s exclusive sneak peek of Drink Coffee, Talk Fast, an upcoming fan-generated Gilmore Girls documentary supported by a Kickstarter campaign, which launched on Tuesday, September 30. “There was an episode where Dean and Rory go to Miss Patty’s and they fall asleep. It had been, like, an 18-hour shooting day and we literally just fell asleep.”

Padalecki played Dean, the first love of Alexis Bledel’s Rory on the series, which aired from 2000 to 2007. As he describes, their characters inadvertently fall asleep in episode 9 of season 1, “Rory’s Dance,” leading to a big blowout fight between Rory and her mom, Lo

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