ALFRED ENOCH: Thats a horrible thought.
This show might be responsible for the disintegration of our social fabric.
When did you guys meet each other?
ELEANOR TOMLINSON: We did have rehearsals.
ENOCH: We had a week.
TOMLINSON: We all met and luckily, and also very rarely, we all just really got on.
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Immediately, it was a family with Dries Vos, our director, as our head.
It just made each day a joy, really.
There are actually only very few scenes, overall, together.
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It was just great fun from the start.
We had a ball.
TOMLINSON: What you dont see is the reset.
I think we had two lots of pajamas, so we had two takes at it.
It was really fun to do.
Sam and I are great mates, so we just really laughed about it.
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I was standing there going, Its really cold.
Its a night shoot, and Id quite like to go home now.
They get it for free.
But then, when theyre together again, shes the one that takes charge of that moment.
Did those scenes feel very different to shoot?
How did you figure those out?
Did you guys just have a lot of conversations with each other and the director?
For the first scene, he definitely leads the way.
Thats the whole point of the scene.
And then, the second scene is her taking charge because she thinks thats what he wants.
Alfred, Pete really goes through the emotional wringer in this.
What was that spiral like to figure out?
ENOCH: It was fun.
In a way, it was surprising how enjoyable it was because hes so much on the back foot.
Hes always reacting belatedly and insufficiently as events are far ahead of him.
The fun thing really is that turn where suddenly hes like, I know what I need to do.
Thats his place of decisiveness, although thats not necessarily an advisable course.
Season 1 starred Sam Heughan and Eleanor Tomlinson.
I found Pete to be sympathetic until the moment he demands that Evie terminate her pregnancy.
What was your reaction to reading that?
How hard was that moment to shoot?
That felt like a real moment for plumbing the real emotional, moral depths for Pete.
It was satisfying to go there.
Playing that scene was great.
We talked about it a lot and worked it a lot.
What were the most memorable moments for you, out of everything that happened in the finale?
Were you ever like, How did I get here?
TOMLINSON: There were definitely quite a few moments like that, on this job.
But then, you see what the others are doing around you.
Alfred is so brilliant.
Him turning up with the gun was genuinely terrifying.
Seeing what that brought out in Evie was really exciting.
There was so much of that whole sequence that stood out.
The most satisfying thing was probably that scene in the restaurant.
It was towards the end.
But there was something about the flashing lights, and Evie on the stretcher, and Danny and Becka.
Who was responsible for the resounding gunshot?
Eleanor, what did you think of that little smile from Evie at the end?
It was just something we tried on one of the takes and Dries really liked it.
I was like, Okay, well, great.
Lets go with that.
We had quite a lot of agency with the scripts, which was great.
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