[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Paper Season 1 Episode 10, “The Ohio Journalism Awards.”]
The Paper‘s first season could have concluded on Peacock, however we’re nonetheless obsessing over the romantic cliffhanger between coworkers Ned (Domhnall Gleeson) and Mare (Chelsea Frei). However do you know their finale kiss nearly didn’t occur?
As followers who tuned in will recall, the editor-in-chief and reporter examined their palpable chemistry, as any good journalist doing analysis would do, by sharing a smooch on the Ohio Journalism Awards after a victorious night. “We shot that ending like 1,000,000 other ways,” Frei tells Swooon. “I didn’t even know that’s the way it was going to be,” she provides of the ultimate reduce.
“There are variations the place we didn’t kiss,” she says. “[I think] they wished to see how the season felt and the place it went,” she provides of the course the writers in the end took Ned and Mare earlier than the season was by.