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Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney has revealed that the cast of the hit sitcom missed out on a fitting farewell after filming concluded on the final season.<\/p>\n
Channel 4\u2019s hit series follows a group of young women growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, including their experiences at a fictional school called Our Lady Immaculate College \u2013 where McSweeney\u2019s Sister Michael is headmistress.<\/p>\n
Last year, it was announced that the upcoming third season would be the last for Derry Girls, a move that writer Lisa McGee said was \u201calways\u201d the plan.<\/p>\n
However, one thing that was never in the plan was the outbreak of a global pandemic, which played havoc with the show\u2019s shooting schedule, causing the major delay between seasons 2 and 3.<\/p>
It also prevented the Derry Girls<\/a> cast from being able to have a proper send-off after finishing their work together, with McSweeney revealing social restrictions prevented any big celebrations from going ahead.<\/p>\n She told Digital Spy<\/a>: \u201cBecause of COVID and various other circumstances, it felt worse than normal as it would be taking off the habit for the very last time because we didn\u2019t get to properly say goodbye. But I can assure you it is goodbye, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n Nevertheless, she\u2019ll always look back on her time on Derry Girls fondly, expressing her gratitude to McGee for crafting such an interesting character for her to play.<\/p>\n \u201cThat woman has changed my life,\u201d she said of Sister Michael. \u201cAnd as I stole loads of things from the set, I will always have a bit of her with me, and I\u2019m grateful to her. I think of her outside of me. I mean, what a gift of a role.\u201d<\/p>\n As for Derry Girls season 3, McSweeney was careful not to disclose any spoilers, but promised fans that the tough three-year wait between seasons will be rewarded with a stellar batch of episodes.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re genuinely in for such a treat,\u201d she added. \u201cIt will be worth the wait. I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d say that when I was still waiting for the third series to happen, it\u2019s taken so f**king long. But seriously, it\u2019s worth the wait.\u201d<\/p>\n Derry Girls is available to stream on Netflix. Check out more of our Comedy<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door. For more from the biggest stars in TV, l<\/strong>isten to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By David Craig Published: Saturday, 12 March 2022 at 12:00 am Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney has revealed that the cast of the hit sitcom missed out on a fitting farewell after filming concluded on the final season. Channel 4\u2019s hit series follows a group of young women growing up in Northern Ireland during the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":12127,"template":"","categories":[5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/derry-girls-star-reveals-cast-didnt-get-a-proper-goodbye.jpg",1240,826,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/derry-girls-star-reveals-cast-didnt-get-a-proper-goodbye-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/derry-girls-star-reveals-cast-didnt-get-a-proper-goodbye-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/derry-girls-star-reveals-cast-didnt-get-a-proper-goodbye-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/derry-girls-star-reveals-cast-didnt-get-a-proper-goodbye-1024x682.jpg",800,533,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/derry-girls-star-reveals-cast-didnt-get-a-proper-goodbye.jpg",1240,826,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/03\/derry-girls-star-reveals-cast-didnt-get-a-proper-goodbye.jpg",1240,826,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By David Craig Published: Saturday, 12 March 2022 at 12:00 am Derry Girls star Siobhan McSweeney has revealed that the cast of the hit sitcom missed out on a fitting farewell after filming concluded on the final season. Channel 4\u2019s hit series follows a group of young women growing up in Northern Ireland during the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/12126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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