Happy Valley's Rhys Connah has described various fan theories swirling around the crime drama's series finale as "stupid".
After ratcheting up some brutal tension over the past five weeks, screenwriter Sally Wainwright's BBC drama is about to wrap up for good this coming weekend, with Connah's teenage character Ryan Cawood caught in the middle of a manhunt for his killer dad Tommy Lee Royce (played by James Norton).
Connah told the BBC: "One of my mates at college, he loves the show. So when we started filming, he wrote a big list with all the ideas of everything he thinks is going to happen.
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"Every time he watches an episode, he'll sit there with his notes and go, 'It happened, right, what's going to happen now?' He's come up with some mad theories. I love hearing them. I love hearing everyone's opinions of the show.
"A lot of the theories are a bit stupid, so sometimes I do laugh," Connah added.
"But sometimes when they're saying random stuff, one of them will list five different plot points, all of which happened exactly, and I'm just like..."
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Connah, who previously appeared opposite Jodie Comer in The White Princess, also suggested that Happy Valley's filming tactic means he doesn't know "exactly how it ends".
"I did hear somewhere that they've made multiple endings, but that's not true," he explained.
"What they've done is, as a lot of shows do – there is one ending, but they've filmed it in different ways, different ways of how characters say things, the emotions behind them, the angles, the framing, because how much that stuff can affect a scene is more than most people would think."
Happy Valley season 3 concludes this Sunday (February 5) at 9pm on BBC One. The show also streams on BBC iPlayer.
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