Will's Journey

(Soft music) (Motorcycle revving) - His family definitely never thought that they would have a son who would become a vicar, and I don't think Will did either.

But he needed something in his life.

He needed to get on the straight and narrow.

His past, if he carried on the way he was going, he would've gone down a pretty bad, destructive path and the Church saved him and now he has somewhere to channel all of his anger and try and use it into something to help people.

The family in Grantchester compared to the family he has, or had, in a way it's obviously a bit more fractured now after what's happened with his father, and it always was in a way and he was always with Eli and Sally who's what he's trying to create the perfect family there and in Grantchester, yeah, he wants everyone to be his friend.

He wants to be everyone's friend.

He wants to be there for everyone in a way that he didn't have growing up.

And anything would be better than the past family that he had before.

Will wanted to be a vicar in Grantchester more than anything, but he didn't wanna take it away from Leonard.

But the way that the world works in that time is Leonard is not given it for reasons that Will is, quite obvious what the reasons are, and he's not happy about that.

And he doesn't want to, he doesn't want his relationship with Leonard to be on these terms.

He wants them to work together and to be a team, but there's some things that happen that just make that a lot harder.

But I like to think that it ends in a pretty good place at the end of the series.

I do, I think they get back and hopefully going into the next series.

Hopefully they can become that team that they always wanted to be (Motorcycle revving) Will develops from being a very strongly opinionated, and he always is, but very idealistic, kind of bull-headed person at the beginning who butts heads with Geordie a lot and he's interrogating him in the first episode.

You can't, you wouldn't imagine that it could be any further from that at the end, but you do.

You see that they, through Geordie, sort of the head and the heart of the relationship sometimes.

They swap their positions and just help each other with that sort of paternal relationship that they have and they both guide each other through the tough life that they both lead in a way, and I think they have a big respect and love for each other at the end of the series.

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