James Corden “Very Emotional” After Finishing Script For Final Episode Of Comedy ‘Gavin And Stacey’
James Corden has shared that he has finished writing the script for the final episode of UK comedy Gavin and Stacey.
Corden, who co-writes the show with Ruth Jones – both also star in the BBC show – told Virgin Radio the script had been finished “a while back” but had to be cut down to size. He said:
“Rewriting is really difficult. Writing is really fun, because you can just go ‘anything can happen.’ But when you rewrite stuff, you’re dealing with a lot of logistics and ‘well, look we might not be able to shoot that, or this needs to be in this location, is there any way this can change?’ And frankly, it’s too long. So really what we have been doing the last few weeks really is just trying to make it as economical as possible. And we finished it yesterday.”
And he said he felt emotional about saying goodbye:
“We’ve finished writing, we will never write anything that Pam [Alison Steadman’s character] says again … We will never come up with an interesting thing that Bryn [Rob Brydon’s character] has done.
“And we just looked at each other and we were just like, ‘Ah, isn’t that amazing?’ To even have the luxury of deciding to end it and to be in a position where people still care.
“It’s inconceivable to us – all of it. I just feel very emotional by all of it; everything.”
The show initially ran on the BBC between 2007 and 2010 , revolving around characters Gavin and Stacey, played by Matthew Horne and Joanna Page, who meet and have a long-distance relationship between Essex, north-east of London, and Barry, in Wales.
The comeback one-off episode drew 18.49 million viewers on Christmas Day 2019. Although that was meant to the last ever episode, Corden and Jones announced earlier this year they’d be coming back for one final goodbye, to tie up all the loose ends including resolve the cliffhanger left at the end of the previous episode, when Jones’s character Nessa proposed to Corden’s character Smithy.
Earlier this month Corden delayed the start of his play in London’s West End so he and the audience could watch the England football team’s penalty shootout with Switzerland in the Euro 2024 quarter-final.
