SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the finale of Season 2 of The Buccaneers.
The Buccaneers star Kristine Frøseth is proud of Nan for choosing herself in the Season 2 finale following some twists and turns at the masquerade ball.
This choice set Season 2’s ending apart from that of Season 1, in which Nan chose to marry Theo (Guy Remmers), Duke of Tintagel, in order to protect her sister Jinny (Imogen Waterhouse) from her abusive husband, James Seadown (Barney Fishwick). In other ways, though, the ending mirrors how Jinny escaped with Nan running away into the fog with a relieved look on her face.
“I think she makes the right choice at the end of Episode 8 by doing what she does, which is basically leave. She has this whole new responsibility. The priorities are different,” Frøseth told Deadline. “Up until this point, there’s been so many bombs thrown at her, and she’s had to prioritize so many other things than herself. Now she’s making a choice to choose herself.”
Despite Guy’s (Matthew Broome) profession of love for her in right as the clock struck midnight at the ball, Nan plans to stick with Theo and retain her Duchess of Tintagel title. This plan — which includes Nan revealing she is pregnant with Theo’s baby as the midnight announcement at the ball — quickly goes awry when Theo decides to beat her to the speech and renounce his title. This complicates things for Nan.
“There’s love for Guy, and there’s love for Theo, and both of those relationships have been super complicated, given the circumstances, but I just think it’s not the right time,” the actress added. “Me, Kristine, I don’t think she should be in a relationship.”
Aubri Ibrag as Lizzy Elmsworth in ‘The Buccaneers’ Season 2
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On top of learning that Guy has married Paloma (Grace Ambrose), Nan discovered that the owner of the earring she found at Tintagel is Lizzy (Aubri Ibrag) in Episode 7, and she put the pieces together that Theo and Lizzy have slept together. To signal in the words of the finale title that “She Knows,” Nan mails the single earring to Lizzy with her invitation to the ball. Frøseth’s costar Christina Hendricks pointed out that Nan had done some “heavy forgivin’” in this same interview, which also included Leighton Meester.
“I’m forgiving left and right,” Frøseth agreed. “I’m like ‘You do this.’ ‘I’m cool with that.’ She’s very understanding, Nan.”
Nan revealed to Lizzy that she didn’t rell the newspapers about Lizzy and Theo’s affair, and the pair reconciled after a fight in the beginning of the finale. Nan also told Lizzy that she is pregnant with Theo’s baby, the would-be heir of Tintagel, before she ran away, begging her friend not to tell Theo, who abdicated so that he could be with the eldest Elmsworth sister. Lizzy was the second person close to Nan to find out after Patricia St. George (Hendricks), who helped Nan think up the announcement plan. Though Nan gained a mother in Nell in Episode 7, her bond with Patti will never fade, as evidenced by her responding to Nell’s letter summoning her to Tintagel.
Christina Hendricks in ‘The Buccaneers’ Season 2
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“Regarding why I don’t come to [Nell], I think it’s just because we’re still getting to know each other. There’s not that much time that passes in between me, Nan, finding out who [Nell is] in relation to me, and then further where [her] character goes, and the complications [of Nell’s pregnancy],” Frøseth said. “There’s new tension to come. It’s so fresh. The wounds are still open and we’ve been through a lot, and we continue to go through a lot, but we’ve healed a little bit more.”
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