The Umbrella Academy actor Tom Hopper says filming the cast's final scene together was "definitely emotional."
"That [took place] in the middle of the night," Hopper told Digital Spy, referring to the scene in which the Hargreeves sacrificed themselves to reset the timeline and stave off another apocalypse.
"We shot it in studio, but we'd pushed hours through the week, so we were actually shooting that at four in the morning.
"It was definitely emotional," he went on to say, "but I think all of us were so knackered at the end of the shooting that we were all kind of like, 'let's just go home to bed', so it hasn't really hit me yet. That kind of end of the era feeling."
The actor who plays Luther Hargreeves added:
"But I really loved looking into all these guys' eyes as we were shooting that [scene]. There was a personal aspect to it. Us as actors, as well as the lines. I said, 'I'm really gonna miss you guys,' [and] that rings true for me as Tom."
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Speaking to Digital Spy, Viktor Hargreeves actor, Elliot Page shared what "a pleasure and an absolute joy" it had been to watch his castmates' character arcs over the years.
"I feel just so lucky to have been a part of it."
Though season four ended with the sibling's demise, the post-credit scene that followed implied that it wasn't quite the end for the Hargreeves family who appear as marigold flowers in the show's final moments.
Breaking down the ending Klaus actor Robert Sheehan said:
"Our essences kind of live on in a way. I don't know if you can get into the religiousness of it all, but there was an air of reincarnation."
In response to what happened to the other powered individuals born on October 1 1989, he and Hopper admitted they weren't sure.
"That was kind of never really explored," Sheehan told Digital Spy. "There wasn't enough real estate to go into what happened to the other 35.
The Umbrella Academy seasons 1-4 are available to stream now on Netflix.
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