Russell T Davies Admits There Were 'Arguments' Over How Tip Toe Should End

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Russell T Davies Admits There Were 'Arguments' Over How Tip Toe Should End

Alan Cumming and David Morrissey in the Channel 4 drama Tip Toe This article contains spoilers for the final episode of Tip Toe. Tip Toe writer Russell T Davies has revealed he and the show’s creative team had some difficulty in coming up with how its bleak epilogue should be conveyed on screen. In the last episode of Tip Toe, after the final sequence that sees Alan Cumming ’s character, Leo, being hanged from a lamppost by his neighbour and a baying mob , title cards flash up on screen laying out the fates of the rest of the characters. Speaking to Digital Spy , Russell explained that these “weren’t written in the script as cards” and, in fact, he wasn’t initially sure whether they’d even make it into the show at all. He recalled: “I did that hanging, which was so devastating. I knew I had the very last [flashback] scene there with Alan and Elizabeth [Berrington, who plays Leo’s friend Steph], but it felt like too big a jump to just go from the hanging to that, so... I was genuinely interested in what happened to them all.” The Bafta winner explained: “We talked about all sorts. We talked about whether it should be a behind-the-scenes extra where [Alan and David Morrissey] read it out to camera, or whether it would be cards. Basically the best version was when I appeared in a wingback chair and read it out to the audience,” he continued with a laugh. “Outrageous. “So we had no idea how to do it. I thought we were going to go in for months of discussion. We looked at the first edit and Peter Hoar, such a brilliant director, had done it [as it appears in the finished screen].” Russell T Davies at Comic-Con in 2024 After that, Russell noted, there were arguments about “the placing of the cards exactly”, the order they’d appear in and even the font used, but he’s now “really, very proud of” how the sequence turned out. During an interview with HuffPost UK , Russell admitted that many of the characters’ rather grim fates reflected how he saw the modern world as it is. “ I don’t feel particularly optimistic,” he shared. “Great people will always do great things. That’s the story of the human race. But I think we’re now out of control in a way that we won’t even contemplate, because getting rid of your WhatsApp thread for your street, so you know what days the bins go out, is more important than children’s mental health. “We’ve got every standard wrong, and we’re trapped. And we’re monetised to stay in this position – and you cannot vote against an algorithm and I think actually there’s no hope. That’s what I think. There is no hope.” All five episodes are now streaming on Channel 4, with the last instalment also airing on TV on Tuesday night at 9pm. MORE TIP TOE: Tip Toe Creator Russell T Davies Talks Us Through The Show's Brutal Ending Russell T Davies: 'The World Is Out Of Control In A Way We Won't Even Contemplate' 9 Things We Learned From The Tip Toe Cast About The Hard-Hitting New Channel 4 Drama

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