The Cast on Cornwall
Season 5
short | 02:54 | CC
The cast reminisce on their years filming in Cornwall, and reveal what they'll miss most about the scenic home of Poldark.
(reflective piano music) - Cornwall is everything to Poldark.
It depicts the mood and cadence of what's happening in the particular scenes.
- [Ross] I cannot blame you for your anger.
- [Aidan] It does feel like it's a part of us.
(crashing) Tempestuous-- - You're infuriating!
- Aah!
- Rugged and changing, and unforgiving.
It feels like it's a part of a lot of the characters, you know.
(cheering) - It's this rural community, these wide landscapes.
That's the heart of the show.
- It's almost like Demelza has sort of grown from the Cornish earth somehow.
The dull sort of russets that she wears, the warmth of her heart, that's how I feel about Cornwall, I feel like it's got a very warm beating heart, when you go down there.
- We sort of joke about the bad weather, but the bad weather actually is a gift.
It's good to be reminded of the drama of their day-to-day lives, you were fighting something.
You know, we think we have it bad, now, you imagine them then!
They couldn't go back to their central heating.
- I think it adds to our show, it gives it texture, you know, that's important.
Wind, rain, or freezing, we're still out there.
(laughs) (waves crashing) - The turbulence of the weather, the changing of the seasons, they are very much a character within the books.
It is the most beautiful county in the world.
- I've just been hit with the fact that we're not going back to Cornwall any more!
I'm so sad!
- I've been going to Cornwall since I was a kid, I used to go to Boscastle and Trebarwith with my family.
- I really love the stuff by the mine, I think that's an amazing location, and this view to eternity from there, it's incredible.
- The mine always feels very separate, I feel like here's where he goes to work, and there's a different tone, a different mood to the whole thing, different actors who were playing characters that would only sort of exist there.
- There is something so beautiful about this rugged landscape and these chimneys and these tin mines just popping up along the shore.
- It's been everyone's favorite part of each season, when we go down there.
- It was stunning, yeah.
It took my breath away.
- You've got the water there, you've got the cliffs, you have the fans-- - Fans!
(laughs) - [Tom] That line up-- - I was gonna say that.
You don't just feel like you're making a TV show, It kind of becomes a little bit amphitheater.
(laughs) You know, we're all dressed up... - Feel fishbowl, I guess, or an auditorium, so you're performing to all of them, that's something that's been very surreal.
- Are you pupils ready to return home?
- I didn't expect people ever to show up on the set.
You'd see familiar faces, you know, like you might see at screenings, came to see my play, very grateful, for the support.
- The fans are the reason that this show has gone to five series.
And without them, we would never have achieved that.
- And it's lovely to film a show that is so loved in the place that you're filming.
- [Eleanor] The Cornish people who have taken us so to their heart, the books belong to them, and they're so proud of it, and so for them to entrust us with their pride and joy, it's really special.
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