THE DYING DAYS

RUSSELL T DAVIES, NCUTI GATWA AND MILLIE GIBSON LOOK AHEAD TO THE TWOPART SEASON FINALE

- DARREN SCOTT

THE END IS NIGH FOR THE series that writer and showrunner Russell T Davies promises will have “the biggest finale ever” in “The Legend Of Ruby Sunday” and “Empire Of Death” – where they return to UNIT HQ. Are the three who rule ready? And what do they think is the message of season one?

How do you feel about the finale?

NG: [Expels a deep breath] I mean, if I’m completely honest with you, it’s a blur. It’s an absolute blur. I don’t know what I can tell you. Every day you had to give every single part of yourself to it. You had to rip your soul out.

MG: It was an emotional ride every day in seven and eight. There’s not much humour in seven and eight, is there? More so eight.

RTD: Eight’s dark.

NG: [Struggles to articulate it] It’s like the darkest of scenarios.

RTD: Apocalyptic.

MG: I think the days were longer, because usually it’s just me and Ncuti. But the finale had a bigger cast in these ones. So we had to redo everything again and again and again, it was just a little bit more intense.

NG: Also, what was hard about that was that we were facing, of course, the greatest monster I’ve ever, ever ever faced in my life and it was operated by little green men [laughs loud]. It was a lot of energy of, “I have to be terrified by this thing,” and I’m trying not to laugh!

MG: My eyes went funny. At one point we did it so many times I think I went bog-eyed and I was like, I can’t… “Which green man am I looking at?”