Plus, the costars weigh in on the ending and where they think their characters go from here.
Warning: This article contains spoilers from the finale ofThe Last Thing He Told Me.
“And Josh kind of started smiling.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jennifer Garner as Owen and Hannah in ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’.Jessica Brooks/Apple TV+
I instantly was just…
I was so shocked.
He was in a beard.
Jennifer Garner as Hannah in ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’.Saeed Adyani/Apple TV+
They were testing his look for the last scene.
And he just completely, completely caught me off guard.
And, you know, I cried, and I yelled at them.
And then we went on.”
Coster-Waldau enjoyed it a bit more.
“It was an emotional reaction she had.
And it was beautiful, because she was very much in character.
She was so invested in this relationship,” he says.
But the actress believes that was all going through Hannah’s mind.
And she, to keep herself and Bailey and Owen safe, she has to just move on immediately.
She can’t let it cross her face, you know?"
Just to know that he loves her."
It wasn’t a lie.'
I think that’s really it."
But does he think it was selfish or wrong of Owen to do that, years later?
“I get what you’re saying.
Finally, she’s moved on, she has closure and then he reappears.
What a selfish thing to do.
And I get that,” he admits.
“But we are also human beings, and he’s clearly a flawed guy.
And he can’t move on because his job is to protect these people.
And yes, he could just do that from a distance, but he decides to reappear.
Maybe he still hopes that he can persuade Hannah to go to New Zealand and become a wine farmer.
I don’t know, maybe.
But I kind of like it.
I like that he doesn’t give up.
But, she adds, “I believe she moves on eventually.
I think she has to get into a place of radical acceptance.
As for whether or not this dream will ever come true, he says, “Who knows?
You’ll have to ask Laura to write the sequel.
Then we’ll find out.”
