JAMES Corden has shared details about the bizarre creative process behind this year’s Gavin and Stacey Christmas special.
The actor and his co-stars will be back on screen for one final time for Gavin and Stacey: The Finale on BBC One.
The show has been 18 months in the planning with James now confessing that he and his fellow writer, Ruth Jones, spend many days trapped in hotels attempting to write the script for the hotly-anticipated special.
James and Ruth chatted to Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby on the Capital FM Breakfast Show about how bags of chocolate buttons fuelled the writing sessions in a Heathrow Airport hote;.
The actor told the radio hosting trio: “There’s a lot of hotel rooms we’ve written in.”
Ruth then continued: “One of the particularly exotic ones was I was up in Scotland last year and we only had kind of like a day that we could both write, and we had to make the most of any time that we had so I flew down to Heathrow from Inverness.”
James added: “I got the Heathrow Express out and we wrote for a day in a hotel next to the runway and it wasn’t our most productive day, was it?
“Looking back now it feels like a mistake but at the time we were so close to getting it done we were just like let’s just try and get it there.
“We often try and write between like six and ten pages a day when we write and that day, I think we wrote a page and a half.”
Presenter Chris went on to question if they used “post-it notes” in order to draft up scripts.
Ruth told him: “We do have post-it notes but they’re not very detailed.
“I find them every now and again and they literally have like two words on them.
“We’re not very grown-up in that regard.”
Confessing that the scene of their hotel writing rooms resembled a “disaster”, James said: “I often say if somebody walked past the window and looked in at Ruth and I, what they would see is two people more than likely having a nap, two open bags of like chocolate buttons, randomly placed post-its on a wall and you would look in an you would never ever think ‘oh they must be writing a successful hit show.’
“You’d be thinking ‘that looks like a disaster.’”
Gavin and Stacey: The Finale airs tonight at 9pm on BBC One.
Listen to Capital Breakfast with Jordan North, Chris Stark and Sian Welby weekdays from 6:00am – 10:00am across the UK on air, and on Global Player, the official Capital app.
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