“And we end on this moment of you back in reality, in your living room or wherever, and you're basically almost crying there because it is such a deep feeling. And to me, that's really effective, the way that it was done, because it reminded me of waking up from a dream. If you've ever had a dream where you see someone who you missed, or you have a deep emotion in a dream. And for me, a lot of times, my dreams are feelings that I associate with them as much as the imagery. And I've had that where I've woken up almost crying. And that to me was the most impactful part of that whole sequence, was the fact that, oh, wait, this is going to take an emotional toll on Mark, this journey of trying to reintegrate. Yeah, because what we were figuring out and really zeroing in on shooting that scene was, this is the first time he has seen Gemma in three years, and he's not looking at a photograph of her, he's not watching something on his phone. She is standing in front of him. And, you know, when someone dies, you're never going to see them again. And she's right there. And yeah, she's dressed weird and hair is different and everything, but just sort of the emotional shock of standing right there with her, or that's how it feels anyway. Yeah, to me, it was very emotional at the end of that episode. And I think that gets back to kind of the core of what I think we always want with the show is to keep it grounded in that as much as any of the weirdness or anything is really Mark's journey.”

DAISY EDGAR-JONES Behind the Scenes for Elle Magazine April 2025 cover

Awesome, fuckin' love doing things out of spite.