Claudia Karvan has hinted at what fans can expect from Bump’s highly anticipated season finale.
The fan-favorite Stan series is coming to an end at the end of the year with its fifth and final series, and fans are eagerly anticipating what’s in store.
The comedy-drama centers on Oly (Nathalie Morris) and her boyfriend Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr), who had a surprise baby while still in school in season one.
In the final season, Oly’s mother Angie (Claudia) continues to battle cancer while Oly comes to terms with her second pregnancy.
Now co-creator Claudia, 52, has hinted at what will happen at the end of the show, as she teased that they had already decided on the ending way back in season one.
“The ending that we have – the image and the moment – was actually on our wish list when we were developing series one,” she told Ny Breaking Australia exclusively.
Claudia Karvan has hinted at what fans can expect from the highly anticipated season finale of Bump, which airs on Boxing Day.
“We were like, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if one day we could end the series right now?’ and that’s what we did.’
“The great thing about series five was that we started it knowing exactly how we were going to end it,” she continued.
“So it was just about how we were going to hold the audience’s hand and lead them to this point.”
Referring to the drama to come, Claudia said they are tackling serious themes including mortality and pregnancy as it proves to be as emotional as ever.
“We’re covering some pretty important storylines in the same kind of Bump tone, so it’s still warm and life-affirming and funny, but hard hitting,” she continued.
“We tackle mortality, the politics of pregnancy and childbirth, feminism, environmentalism, abortion – yes.
“We’re hiding things, but we’re definitely going there, that’s the fun part, we don’t want to be too safe.”
Indicating where the inspiration for the storylines comes from, Claudia revealed that she and co-creator Kelsey Munro injected many of their own experiences into the scripts, as did the rest of the cast.
In the final season, Oly’s mother Angie (Claudia, pictured) continues to battle cancer while Oly comes to terms with her second pregnancy.
Now co-creator Claudia, 52, has hinted at what will happen at the end of the show, as she teased that they had decided on the ending way back in the first season.
“There’s a lot of autobiographical stuff from Kelsey and all the writers in the room – even the actors pitch their own storylines and often they’re great,” she shared.
“In the story room, everyone brings their diary or people tell stories and secrets to their friends to put in the show!”
Nathalie Morris, who plays Oly, even co-wrote one of the episodes, with Claudia saying she loved making the budding star’s writing dreams come true.
Speaking about the candid, lifelike feeling that Bump embodies, Claudia talked about how important it was for them to accurately portray Australian society and the diversity that comes with it.
“When you make television in Australia, which is very generously subsidized by taxpayers, you have to think about what our society looks like,” she said.
‘When we met Ioane [Saula]who is Samoan, we have taken the lead in representing his community and he is well aware of that.
‘After series one he said to me: ‘You don’t know what you’ve done for me, this is really huge’.
‘At one point he thought: ‘so in the future [on the show] I’m going to be a worker or a doorman in a nightclub” and we were like ‘no, you’re going to be a midwife’.
The comedy-drama centers on Oly (Nathalie Morris) and her boyfriend Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr), who had a surprise baby while still in school in season one.
“He was like, ‘What? When has that ever happened on television?”
Claudia also credited Bump’s global success with its “authentic” feel, as she shared her pride that the show had opened to great success in Britain.
“It’s rare for an Australian show to break through overseas like Colin From Accounts and Fisk and Home and Away and Neighbors have done, but it is rare,” she said.
“So when I get the regular DMs from audiences in England I have to pinch myself and I think it comes down to how specific and authentic the show is.”
The fifth and final series of Bump will be shown on Boxing Day in what Stan described as a ‘Christmas tradition for all Australian households’.
The final installment of Bump promises to be a dramatic and bittersweet swan song for the Chalmers-Davis family.
The comedy-drama was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed shows on Stan upon its debut in 2021 and spawned a spin-off series in 2023 titled Year Of.
The brand new season of the Stan Original Series Bump premieres on Boxing Day, all episodes in one go. Every episode from seasons 1, 2, 3 and 4 is now streaming, only on Stan.