Farewell Poldark

(wistful music) - The last day it was snowing, which was weird.

We had to walk in the heavy snow.

I thought, "This means something."

My son years older.

(laughing) Karen, our producer, was quite emotional.

I'm delighted she came down for the last day.

Now I'll get a text and Damien going.

I miss Ross.

- The real sad thing for me was that Debbie and I were supposed to go down together, and she couldn't get out of her house because the snow was so deep.

- Last day!

- I really honestly feel so grateful to have had these three years.

- I've got friends for life from this show.

- I feel quite numb because I don't know quite how to cope with it to be completely honest.

It's like the little family is breaking up and I don't like it.

- You've still got months of editing.

- I have, it's true.

- And it was Karen's idea, so she's lived with it for longer than any of us.

- You've been crying for about the last two weeks please be aware.

- I cried - I did.

- It was emotional.

Every day somebody's finishing for the last time or it's the last time you wear the tricorn hat or it's the last time you're in this set.

Myself and Eleanor were the only actors on set that day.

We spent the day in the bedroom doing bedroom scenes all day.

Wasn't no romantic stuff.

We were just lying in bed talking.

So that was brilliant.

It felt right and we didn't plan it to be that.

I think with scheduling and everything we ran a week over and this just managed to find itself in there.

- Of course I'm going to miss it.

I can't quite get my head around the fact that this is the last series and that when they say, "That's a wrap," that's it for me and Demelza.

D'you not think that's a thought - extreme?

- Not for what we're dealing with.

- That is the final scene of "Poldark" five.

(crowd applauding) - That's a wrap.

(crowd cheering) - Surreal kind of feeling.

It's been five years of my life and it'll be always very, very important.

- These are tears of happiness.

The crew have become like my family, so have the cast.

They've seen me through such a pivotal stage in my life.

- I'm so proud of it.

- Do a kiss.

- "Poldark" has put me on the map.

I'm incredibly lucky and grateful.

It's been a gift of a job and it's time now to move on and to do something else.

I'll miss the crew more than anyone.

- By the end of the day, I felt a really great loss.

- I'm holding down the emotions.

It wouldn't be right go Cary to go around hugging everyone.

- Course I'm sad.

I am sad to be saying goodbye to George Warleggan.

It's quite good to park him and maybe move onto someone a little more wholesome.

I don't know.

(laughs) - It's been a huge chunk of my life now.

- Five years yeah.

I haven't thought about it.

Just feels too sad.

(laughs) - "Poldark" has been life-changing for me.

I've made some of my best friends.

- I hope I'm not intruding.

- I actually love the writing process.

I've just become completely consumed by it.

There has been nothing else for six years for me.

I just love watching these characters come to life.

I love every step of the process, but in the end I love just being up there in my room writing the script.

That is my favorite bit.

- I am your humble servant and I love you.

- I've loved it.

It's been the most incredible journey.

I will miss it very much.

- A lot of the crew I miss because they've been around for so long.

- I've known Aidan for a long time because was did a bit of "Being Human" together.

The camera and grip team get on very well, so we work very closely together.

We do very long days and it will be sad not to see the cast.

Some of them worked with each other, but never as a whole as they are now.

- It's been so wonderful working next to Aidan.

Gosh, five years of that hat.

This year it blew off and went into the sea in an absolute nightmare.

- Tess is always in great spirits.

There's times when I would be down a little bit just for whatever, it's five years, all sorts of things happen in between and she was my rock.

She's a really close friend, I adore her.

- A lot of people have been back series on series.

- That is how the work has been able to be good because everyone trusts each other and create the best work that they can.

- For me there is one person that has held the whole thing together and that's Abi, my make-up artist.

- You get to know somebody when they sit in your make-up chair at six o'clock in the morning.

But we've been through a lot.

- She gives me the wings to go to work every day.

She's got all of this taken care of and I can just concentrate on Demelza the character.

You can tell by the watermark, see?

- I was given kitchen table in Nampara and the benches.

I got a really good gift.

It's in my house in London.

Took a tricorn hat, too.

There was one hat in particular that we went through with the entire five series, so I have that.

- I did get my teeth.

They gave me my teeth.

(Karen laughs) I'm gonna wear them to parties, Christmas, everything.

- I'm having the trunk that the blue dress was found in and I'm also having a coal bucket from Nampara.

- I'd take Sam's hat.

I love that.

What would you?

- A corset.

(laughing) - Maybe I can grab a big painting.

- And action.

- Getting to five was a huge achievement for all of us, and there's a great sense of completion with the story we've told now, everything that we've done so far up to this point that I think that's what we're celebrating.

- That's good.

(upbeat music) - You're doing very well.

(upbeat music) - (drowned out by music) - Who knows, maybe there's something in the future, but for right now I think that's it.

(lips smacking) (Eleanor laughs) (upbeat music)