James Corden says Gavin And Stacey special delves into Nessa’s ‘chequered life’
The finale, set five years after Nessa proposed to Smithy, will air on the BBC on Christmas Day.
Gavin And Stacey co-creator James Corden has said the series finale will explore Nessa’s “chequered life”.
The BBC sitcom is returning for a one-off festive special set five years after the 2019 Christmas Day episode that ended on a cliffhanger when Vanessa Shanessa “Nessa” Jenkins (Ruth Jones) proposed to Corden’s character Neil “Smithy” Smith.
Speaking on the podcast Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware, Corden said: “It’s one of the best pieces of acting, what Ruth did with that character.
“The show picks up five years after we left off… Nessa has had this unbelievable chequered life and you find out more about that in this special – some really fun bits that we wrote.”
At the end of the 2019 Christmas special, which won the impact award at the 2020 National Television Awards, Nessa tells Smithy: “I loves you with all my heart.”
Speaking about this, Jones said: “The reason I feel it’s so emotional is because me and James have been on this journey for a long time.
“We’ve known each other since 2000 doing Fat Friends and because Gavin And Stacey has been such a massive part of our lives and that was going to be the last episode – we filmed that scene in the middle of the night as we were filming during summertime but it was set at Christmas so it had to be dark.
“We were there, just the two of us, on that road that had meant so much to us and I just, as Ruth, was looking at my dear friend James and when I said ‘I loved you with all my heart’ I was saying it to you (James).”
