Vera star Brenda Blethyn has revealed that a scene from the final episodes of the show “broke her heart.”
It was announced in April that the ITV crime drama would conclude with its 14th season – with a two-part finale – in the new year, bringing an end to a 14-year run.
Ahead of the finale, Blethyn spoke with RadioTimes about her experience on the set, sharing that one particular scene proved to be “emotional” during filming.
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“One scene involved Vera and DC Kenny Lockhart, played by Jon Morrison. It broke my heart when I read the script and it was emotional to film,” she recalled. “Jon rang me up after it was all over.
“And he said, ‘I just wanted to thank you for giving us 14 years of work.’ What a gentleman. But I thanked him and told him I certainly wasn’t going to do any episodes without him – which is true.”
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The final episodes, which air on January 1 and January 2, sees the detective called to the banks of the Tyne after the body of a young man is discovered, with the story, according to the synopsis, promising the tangled web of a broken relationship, secret love, grudges, regret and fraud.”
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Blethyn had previously spoken about her decision to retire from the role, saying earlier this month: “It was a hard decision and come March when I would normally be getting ready to go back up there, I'll probably be crying.
“As much as I loved all that, I've got a family at home and I realised I hadn't had a summer for 14 years with my family. So I still did another series because I couldn't drag myself away," Blethyn added. "But anyway it was time, that's all.”
The final episodes of Vera air on ITV1 on January 1 and January 2.
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