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Comedy-drama The Big C is being wrapped up with four hour-long episodes following its four season run.
The show’s star, Laura Linney, plays a suburban mum called Cathy who is diagnosed with cancer and tries to find the humour in the disease.
Linney said: “It’s been an enormous education for me the past three years and the four seasons,” she said. “I feel really good about how we finish the story, all of us together. Certainly, the lesson that I learn over and over and over again in anything creative is that nothing is ever what you think it’s going to be. Things happen that you never think will happen.”
The actress explained how she has evolved physically and superficially to film the final episodes, and the final part of Cathy’s battle with cancer.
“We didn’t want to glamorise the challenge of illness and what happens to you physically,” she said. “I lost some weight along the way and we cut my hair. There were all sorts of things that we did to honestly approach the physical transformation of what happens when someone is seriously ill.”
When the show returns in April, it will be aired on OSN as a ‘limited series event,’ subtitled Hereafter.
Although Cathy’s cancer will worsen this season, producers avoided giving any further spoilers about her condition.
“We’re not saying necessarily that this character dies,” said executive producer Jenny Bicks. “I will say that the final scene of the series will be very nostalgic for viewers because we reintroduce visual elements that we’ve played with throughout the course of the series.
The Big C airs at 10.30pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays on OSN Comedy HD.
