I don’t know about you but I’m still not over it.
That last ever episode of Gavin and Stacey was probably one of the best TV finales I’ve ever watched.
Whilst it was the same cast and story we’ve known and loved so much for the past 17 years, they were still able to get us with some surprises.
From finding out Sonia was still even in the picture to that Dave Coaches reveal, we were absolutely treated.
Although, it wasn’t just us mere viewers who had a surprise watching it but the cast too.
Apparently, the stars were caught out when two extras went off-screen during the wedding scene. It just makes it more dramatic to be honest, and also a little funnier, obviously.
So, for the ceremony of Smithy and Sonia, there was about ‘40 to 50 extras’ packing out the room as guests while Neil the Baby sang his cover of ‘Blackbird’.
Larry Lamb, who played Mick, explained during a cast Q&A that they all ‘sort of knew the story’ because they were all Gavin and Stacey fans.
Ugh, Sonia. (BBC)
“And the looks on their faces – the shock – it was just absolutely brilliant,” he said.
But some of them got a little more into it than others.
Obviously, a marriage between those two was never going to work out and Gavin finally pulled himself together at the last second to tell his mate not to say ‘I do’.
Then, when the officiant (played by Anna Maxwell Martin) asked if anyone else felt this way, beloved members of the Essex and Welsh families slowly began to stand.
However, so did two random women towards the back on Sonia’s side.
“When Anna said, ‘Please stand’, there’s two ladies at the back on Stacey’s side who stood up! We didn’t tell them to,” James Corden said.
The two extras were so into it. (BBC)
“They were just real fans of the show who were so in it [the plot], that they just stood up and were like, ‘I just thought he shouldn’t be marrying her!’.”
Let’s be honest though, it worked pretty well as it added to the whole drama of the scene before the emotional moment Mick finally stood up.
Plenty of viewers on X called that the ‘best bit’ of the episode as people said it had them ‘welling up’.
Another used a Martin Scorsese meme to call it ‘absolute cinema’ with one writing: “No but the Gavin and Stacey ending was just so perfect with Mick calling Smithy his son and then Smithy looking to Mick for the final objection at the wedding oh my god.”
Absolute Cinema.
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