Best Scenes: Julia

- [Dwight] Forgive me, I cannot save her.

- [Aidan] I don't have any children so, I can only imagine what it would feel like to lose a child.

- I will stay with her.

- [Aidan] And the helplessness of it all, and the confusion of it, especially at that time.

- I will not have her be afraid.

- In the space of a few hours, your life completely changes forever.

- Julia's death in the books is dealt with in a couple of lines.

But obviously on screen there's no way an audience is not going to want to see the build up to that and the moment where Demelza finds out.

- Where's Julia?

- Demelza is coming out of a fever when she is told of her daughter's death.

Debbie's writing of that scene was all on the page you didn't have to dig for anything it was all there.

For Aidan and I it was an incredibly hard scene obviously.

- It's a scene that when you go to shoot these kind of things that the atmosphere in the room completely changes, you know, and there's so many of the crew that have children and just would understand, you know, so it's one of the few times you do get real silence from everybody even during rehearsals.

- But I was not with her.

- I was.

- Demelza asks the questions that I think as a mother I would ask.

- Could she tell that she was leaving us?

Was she afraid?

- She was peaceful.

- [Debbie] And they did it so beautifully.

I cry every time I see it.

- (cries) Ross.

- Strangely it's a gift to be given a scene like that, because when the writing is so on point, when you've got someone as good as Aidan to play opposite and to create this relationship and this sadness with, it sort of all came together.

Child deaths were very common at that time.

But I think for Demelza she has this love of life, and this acceptance of the ways of life, and I don't think she feels that she's ever lost Julia, I think she just feels that she's gone elsewhere and they'll meet again as this very, kind of, powerful strength within Demelza that enables her to get up and get herself and get Ross through this unbearable tragedy that they've had to face in losing their precious child.