Joanna Page has described the end of filming on Gavin & Stacey as "traumatic" and admitted that she spent the whole of the last day in tears.
The much-loved sitcom comes to an end tonight in a special 90-minute episode, which creators Ruth Jones and James Corden have insisted will definitely be the last.
Page, who plays Stacey, wife of Mathew Horne's Gavin, recalled spending the day 'alternating between hysterically crying and hysterically laughing' as the cast united for one final time.
"Being on set for the last time with everybody for the last day was traumatic," she said. "I knew I was going to cry as soon as I walked on set. I saw Steve's face, our first AD, and I just burst out crying. Then I saw Sophie Hebron, our second AD, and I burst out crying again.
"So then I went into my trailer and Julia Davis came in and sat with me, and I couldn't stop crying, because it just felt it was such a huge journey that was ending. So I found it very emotional but then in between that, hysterically funny, because the last scene we filmed was a funny one, so I just alternated between hysterically crying and hysterically laughing."
She continued: "Right at the very end, on our last bit of filming, I just got this sense of calm wash over me. I remember standing there and looking around at everybody and everybody's faces, and I just remember smiling quite calmly to myself and thinking 'wow, look where we've all come, look where we all are now'.
"I delivered my last lines, the way that I wanted to, and the way that I needed to, and then when they shouted, 'it's a wrap' and then they clapped all of us goodbye and I just hugged Mat, and we both stood there crying."
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale airs tonight at 9pm on BBC One and iPlayer.
Neil Wilkes
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