Chad Michael Murray has discovered that the place his Gilmore Girls character leads, the present’s followers will comply with.

The 39-year-old One Tree Hill alum spoke to Today on Wednesday, July 7, the place he reminisced about his time as Tristin, the devil-may-care classmate of Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) at Chilton Prep Faculty on the fondly remembered sequence.

The actor recurred on Gilmore Ladies‘ first two seasons, and whereas his character is maybe greatest remembered for referring to Rory as “Mary” in a smarmy method, Chad revealed that followers in some way don’t have anything however favorable impressions of Tristin.

“One response I all the time get about Tristin is how a lot they love him,” he shared. “They actually do. I’ve by no means had anybody come as much as me and say—which you’d suppose I might obtain on a regular basis—nobody has ever come as much as me and stated, ‘Tristin was a jerk. Why did you name her Mary?’ It by no means occurred.”