Dwight & Caroline
Season 5
short | 02:41 | CC
Luke Norris and Gabriella Wilde reflect on their characters' journeys through the seasons, and what they'll miss most after the show has concluded.
[dramatic music] - I'm gonna miss everyone horribly.
I'm gonna to miss Cornwall, I'm gonna miss Debbie's scripts, I'm gonna miss Dwight.
- Oranges.
- Fresh air and exercise.
A little sea bathing.
- I've loved playing Dwight because I think he has a morality and a sense of decency.
I feel like the causes that he pursues are noble and righteous and courageous.
Keystone moments for Dwight are the affair with Keren in series one - You're being very brave.
- that change his whole outlook on fidelity and love and romance and duty and how much one allows oneself to be governed by the heart as opposed to the head.
Meeting Caroline, obviously, is the next big one.
- Are all men so odiously conceited?
- I think it almost starts out of her sort of rebellious side and need to stir the pot initially, I think, and go against the grain.
She enjoys sort of winding him up.
- You're rather impertinent.
- I like you very much, too.
- It's kind of wonderful that within that, they end up falling in love even though they come from totally different parts of the world and backgrounds.
- Am I dead?
Is this hell?
(guns fire) - We're all in hell now.
- Caught you!
(Dwight screams) - France breaks him.
And he has to but put back together again by Caroline and by his friends.
- I think it was traumatic for her.
You know, she went through the grief of thinking that she'd lost him initially and then almost a second grief when he comes back but he isn't the man that she knew.
And she feels a great rejection from him in that and it takes her a while to understand what's going on.
- And then, starting and losing a family.
- [Gabriella] It kind of rocks her at her core.
- She can't bear to be in the house with him.
She has to go to London, she has to party all the time to blot out the pain.
- It was what you needed, so there is nothing to forgive.
- So, he goes from being this young, idealistic, single student doctor to being a man who's gone through some awful, terrible things and come out the other side with love and friendship and compassion and I think having life experience and knowing that those things are restorative and healing is a huge part of a doctor's armory.
So I've got engaged, married, had a child, and I have one on the way, in the time that Poldark's been going.
Gabriella's gone from having one tiny baby to having a school-aged child and a two-and-a-half-year-old.
We've grown up a lot as well alongside the characters.
- Without you, nothing is possible.
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