A STILL Recreation star has revealed how he was left in tears after filming the ultimate scene of the present’s final episode.

Gavin Mitchell, who performed Boaby the Barman for all 9 sequence of the hit Scots tv present advised of how he wasn’t conscious that he was even crying till a make-up artist slipped him a tissue between takes.

Talking on The Robin Galloway Breakfast Present on Pure Radio final Friday, the 58-year-old revealed he couldn’t maintain again his feelings after delivering the final line of the present.

Pure Radio launched a clip of the pair discussing the climax of the present, which options an aged Boaby uttering his basic line: “Look who it isnae”.

Host Galloway requested Mitchell, whose character manned the bar at native pub The Clansman, about how the final Nonetheless Recreation had affected him greater than the top of another sequence of the present.

Mitchell replied: “Yeah, I believe it’s simply because I had the ultimate phrase and so it was fairly a bizarre scene, that scene.”

Mitchell revealed how he was on their own for the whole lot of the journey to movie the scene as the remainder of the solid had filmed their finales.

He mentioned: “Usually, we’re all collectively once we get picked up within the morning, we get picked up in a van and we journey in collectively.

“All of us did scenes in The Clansman however that was a extremely uncommon morning as a result of I used to be alone.

“I received picked up in a cab, taken down [to the studio] nobody else was there, taken into make-up and so they turned me into outdated Boaby because it had been.”

The actor then advised how these behind the digital camera paid their respects by refusing to look him within the eye as he walked in direction of The Clansman one final time.

Mitchell recalled: “We then walked on set, and no person would take a look at me, all people form of respectfully form of put their heads down and wouldn’t make eye contact.

“[I] walked on set and so they’d rehearsed the digital camera transfer so it was actually clean, didn’t have to spend so much of time.

“[I] did two takes, the primary take I received it proper as a result of I’m rattling good, however we did one for security and the make-up woman got here in to test on me, Anne-Marie.

“When she was checking my wig and make-up she simply gently turned me spherical.”

Anne-Marie had realised that the actor had begun to tear up with out noticing and slipped him a tissue between takes because the enormity of the scene hit residence for Mitchell.

He mentioned: “I might really feel her placing one thing in my proper hand and I assumed ‘What’s that?’ I appeared down and it was a tissue.

“She simply pointed at my eyes and I realised I used to be crying and I didn’t even realise it, it was weird.

“I believe there was simply quite a lot of weight in that one line – you knew it was the top.”

Pure Radio shared the clip to social media on Friday with the caption: “Boaby the Barman on filming the final ever scene of Nonetheless Recreation.”

The video has since obtained over 10,000 likes and dozens of feedback from followers who had been fast to share their very own ideas on the touching ending to the present.

One mentioned: “I do know lots of people that cried on the finish.”

One other added: “Excellent ending to a implausible present.”

A 3rd replied: “Completely good final episode, gutted it was [the end] although.”

One other responded: “It broke my coronary heart, I wasn’t prepared.”

Nonetheless Recreation was first broadcast on 6 September 2002 and ran for six sequence earlier than ultimately returning for an additional three sequence which ended on the 28 March 2019.