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The Buccaneers Season 2 Episode 5 “A Whole Love” ends with one of the Apple TV+ show’s most romantic moments to date. No, it’s not another swoon-worthy love scene or even a beautiful ball. The Buccaneers imagines a world where a man loves a woman so much that he crashes her wedding to someone else not to beg her to run away with him, but to tell her to put herself first.
**Spoilers for The Buccaneers Season 2 Episode 5 “A Whole Love,” now streaming on Apple TV+**
The Buccaneers Season 2 Episode 5 “A Whole Love” sees Theo, Duke of Tintagel (Guy Remmers) running through the city of London to get to American heiress Lizzie Elmsworth (Aubri Ibrag) before she marries liberal politician Hector Robinson (Jacob Ifan). Earlier in the same episode, the Duke had proposed that the two run away together, but Lizzie shot this plan down. You see, because Theo is still technically married to Lizzie’s best friend Nan (Kristine Frøseth), the lovers would be living in sin. As Duke of Tintagel, Theo’s reputation would be unscathed, but as his mistress, Lizzie would be ruined.
Nevertheless, Theo cannot let Lizzie marry Hector without saying his piece.
Photo: Apple TV+d”I think when he’s running and he’s sprinting, he doesn’t quite know what he’s going to say,” The Buccaneers star Guy Remmers told DECIDER. “It’s like his heart’s moving faster than his brain. Then when he stops her and gets there, I don’t think he actually…”
“The way I played it was that he didn’t really kind of know what he was gonna say, but when he sees her there and she’s in that wedding dress, he also has that trauma and experience of what he went through. It just kind of comes out and he says, ‘Just put you first. Forget about me, forget about him. What do you really want?'”
As for the Duke of Tintagel’s “trauma,” Remmers is referring to the fact that Theo jumped head first into a marriage with Nan without really figuring out if what he felt was really love. Now that he and Lizzie are involved, his understanding of romance and what he really wants in life have radically altered.
“I think in that moment he realizes that Lizzie is in a not too far dissimilar situation that he was in with Nan,” Remmers said. “I think, just in that moment, he almost just says, ‘Don’t make the same mistake I did. Just follow your heart and don’t pick me because you’re right. I can’t give you the legitimacy and the safety that you really deserve, but then you also deserve someone who makes you feel that love.'”
Aubri Ibrag agreed with Remmer’s romantic read of the situation. “I think it would be very unfair of Theo — well, not unfair, but it would be more selfish — if you said, ‘Don’t marry him. Like, be with me. Be my mistress.’ That would be, I feel like that is not something Theo would put Lizzie through,” Ibrag said.
“Because that would mean for her a life hiding away, like she did in that one scene. Not being able to be out there fully with the one that she loves, being kept a secret.”
Photo: Apple TV+What Lizzie wants instead of that life — and what both she and Theo agree she deserves — is one where she can live as a happy and respectable member of society, cherished by her husband. That’s the life she hopes she can potentially find with Hector Robinson. However, there is, of course, the issue that she does not truly love Hector the way she loves Theo. But does Hector really love her?
“Yeah, I think there’s like an obvious initial attraction, the first time he sees her and lays eyes on her,” Jacob Ifan said. “He finds that whole world of the aristocracy quite difficult to be in. I think he’s been surrounded by it his whole life, but he’s other to that. You know, he’s a working man. I think he finds value in people who are hardworking, who are honest, and I thinks he sees in Lizzie someone who is genuine. Someone who is kind and values the same things that he does within a world that can be quite perhaps perceived as shallow or vapid in a way.”
“I think he sees something completely different in her and I think that’s where his love grows from, I think.”
The Buccaneers Season 2 Episode 5 “A Whole Love” ends on a tiny bit of a cliffhanger as it’s unclear what Lizzie will do next. Will she pursue the security of marrying Hector Robinson or hold out for a “whole love”?
We’ll have to wait to learn whether or not Theo’s words have moved Lizzie, but that scene certainly moved Buccaneers stars Guy Remmers and Aubri Ibrag.
“We absolutely loved filming that scene, it was really special,” Remmers said.
“Well, it is my favorite scene, that one, the wedding. That speech was very, very moving,” Ibrag said and then turned to Remmers with a smile. “Good job.”
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