Ken almost turned Star’s Hollow into his Mojo Dojo Casa House.
The upcoming “Gilmore Girls” documentary reveals that a major A-lister bombed his audition for the show — Ryan Gosling.
“Maybe the year before we started ‘Gilmore Girls,’ I met Ryan and he blew me away,” casting director Jami Rudofsky recalled in The Post’s exclusive first look.
“Like, that was one of the finest auditions I’d ever seen. And I talked him up real good,” she continued. “He came in, and I don’t think he was into it.”
She added: “He has to be passionate about what he’s doing.”
Following that audition flub, Rudofsky received skeptical reactions from the rest of the show’s team, including creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
An unruffled Rudofsky replied to them, “’Okay, that’s fine. Mark my work, he is going to be a star.’”
Indeed, the Canadian native would go on to be one of Hollywood’s leading men, and has since been nominated for three Oscars. He’s earned two Best Actor nods for “Half Nelson” (2006) and “La La Land” (2016), and one for Best Supporting Actor for 2023’s “Barbie.”
“Gilmore Girls” aired from 2000 to 2007 on The WB (which then became the CW). Gosling, 44, would have been around 19 at the time.
The exclusive clip also highlights how “Gilmore Girls” had several early career minor roles for today’s big stars, such as Rami Malek, Jon Hamm, and Seth MacFarlane.
In “Drink Coffee, Talk Fast,” which just launched its Kickstarter campaign, the show’s stars such as Chad Michael Murray, Kelly Bishop, and Jared Padalecki weigh in about their experiences in honor of the show’s 25th anniversary.
The beloved family drama follows Lorelai (Lauren Graham), a former teen mom as she navigates life and love in her 30s. She raises her precocious teen daughter, Rory, (Alexis Bledel), who also navigates life, love, friendship, and school, all in the quaint town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut.
Supporting characters include Lorelai’s difficult mother, Emily (Bishop), her diner owner love interest, Luke (Scott Patterson), Luke’s nephew Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), Rory’s first boyfriend, Dean (Padalecki), local town weirdo, Kirk (Sean Gunn), and Lorelai’s best friend, Sookie (Melissa McCarthy).
According to doc directors Meghna Balakumar and Kevin Konrad Hanna, Gosling’s role appeared to be for a “football player,” but the character was never featured on the series.
“Even the casting director was a little fuzzy on exactly what the role was,” Balakumar explained.
“But for her memory, she thinks he was trying out to be like a football player at the high school,” she added. “So, I’m not sure how big that role would have gotten.”
“But what’s really great about ‘Gilmore Girls’ is people who were only supposed to have, like, one line in one episode, if Amy Sherman-Palladino likes them, she would build them out to be a series regular.”
For instance, Luke “wasn’t supposed to be a series regular,” she revealed. “I believe Kirk, who was formerly known as Mitch the Cable Guy in the pilot, was not supposed to be a series regular either.”
The show also got a Netflix revival in 2016 called “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” Graham, 58, and Bledel, 44, returned for the four-episode miniseries, but the directors could not confirm if the actors will take part in the new doc.
“Drink Coffee, Talk Fast” is eying a summer 2026 premiere, but is currently in the midst of raising over $60K in its Kickstarter.