SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the fourth episode of “Years and Years.” Russell T. Davies’ limited series “Years and Years” began with a birth,…
In the fourth episode of the multi-year spanning family drama, the Lyons family lost Daniel , who drowned while trying to cross back into the U.K. illegally with his boyfriend Viktor .. “Yes, it’s what you do for love in a desperate situation, but he’s very arrogant. He thinks, ‘People like me don’t die. We’re going to survive and I’m going to get the life I want, because that’s what I get.'”
The couple first met in the series premiere, when Daniel, a housing officer, popped in on a refugee in one of the U.K.’s sanctuary developments. The guy he was looking for was not there, and he met Viktor instead, bonding over tales of what Viktor had been through in his home country, simply for being gay. When, at the end of that episode, Daniel thought he was going to die because Donald Trump launched a missile, he left his husband and family behind and ran to be with Viktor.
Tovey admits that he works out deep backstory for his characters with every job he has, so his process to understand where Daniel had been wasn’t different. “In this case, the father and mother characters — as an audience you’re unsure if they’re going to appear, but we need to know they’re not.
Even as things start to go south, such as Daniel having his passport stolen by a woman who claimed she would use it to make a fake for Viktor, his attitude never waned from wanting to cross with his boyfriend. “He was out of options,” Tovey admits, “but, ‘F— it, it’s going to be all right.'”
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