In the first draft of the pilot, the character who would become Luke Danes was originally a woman, but the producers decided to bring in a little testosterone and changed the character. Enter Scott Patterson and his backwards baseball caps.
www.deseret.com -By Lottie Elizabeth Johnson - Twenty years ago, a quirky town called Stars Hollow came to life. Scott Patterson, who played gruff diner owner Luke, called it ‘the happiest place on Earth’