Virgin River Cast Break Down Mel and Jack’s Wedding, Cliffhangers, More

Virgin River lastly let Mel and Jack stroll down the aisle through the season 6 finale — and stars Alexandra Breckenridge and Martin Henderson are trying again on their greatest recollections from the large day.

“Watching Martin cry each time I walked down the aisle,” Breckenridge, 42, completely shared within the newest concern of Us Weekly. “I wasn’t crying. I used to be like, ‘Oh no, the place are my tears?’ You realize, completely happy tears. I’m like, ‘The place are these?’ However each time I might stroll down the aisle, he’d get all [misty eyed]. He was being actually sentimental, and it was very candy.”

After six seasons of breakups and make ups, a pretend paternity check and a heartbreaking being pregnant loss, Mel (Breckenridge) and Jack (Henderson) stated “I do” surrounded by their family and friends within the season 6 finale. It was an emotional second for all concerned within the sequence, and whereas Breckenridge was capable of hold her eyes dry, Henderson defined why the second resonated with him so deeply.

“Clearly, I’ve invested quite a lot of power and emotion into the character of Jack and his love for Mel, which is form of the crux of the present in a method,” he stated. “So to lastly get to that second, and for Mel to be strolling up the aisle radiant and so stunning, I felt that love that I feel these characters have for each other. It was simply actually transferring.”

How the marriage was shot, Henderson added, felt so “stunning” and “tender” for the 2 characters, who’ve been by a lot collectively. “I used to be fairly overwhelmed and really emotional about it. It was so transferring,” Henderson continued. “It has been six seasons main as much as that. …  I poured my coronary heart and soul into [Mel and Jack] and I used to be so completely happy for Jack to have this girl be his spouse and what which means to him.”

Henderson famous how monumental the second was for followers as nicely, who’ve identified that Mel and Jack have been destined soulmates from the pilot. “They belong collectively,” he stated. “The viewers is aware of that when she walks into the bar [in the pilot]. So it felt just like the fruits of all that power and romance and love and emotion that has existed between them for six seasons.”

Henderson definitely wasn’t the one particular person on set feeling the waves of emotion. Breckenridge stated most individuals attending the ceremony had tears of their eyes.

“I feel there have been lots of people that have been weepy,” she instructed Us. “Like, with [Mel’s father-like figure] Doc [played by Tim Matheson] strolling me down the aisle … once I was doing my vows, I may hear sniffling behind me.”

Whereas Henderson will seemingly keep in mind Jack’s wedding ceremony day for the remainder of his life, there was one specific season 6 second he’s selecting to neglect: performing an intimate striptease for Breckenridge to Massive & Wealthy’s “Save a Horse, Journey a Cowboy.”

“I actually, fully blocked that out of my thoughts,” Henderson quipped of the second, which noticed Jack undress whereas donning a cowboy hat. “That was one of the crucial excruciating moments of my life, not to mention my profession.”

All jokes apart, Henderson wished to make sure the scene felt genuine to who Jack was as a personality — which is why he turned down the chance to have an expert block the dance and as an alternative leaned into his personal inventive freedom.

‘They provided, ‘Do you need to choreograph it?’ And I assumed, ‘Oh, sure, I do. I undoubtedly need assistance.’ However then I used to be getting near kind of going to the primary assembly and I considered it. I used to be like, ‘Grasp on, that’s gonna look actually bizarre. Jack Sheridan, the Marine, bar proprietor from Virgin River simply busts out in some form of Magic Mike, perfectly-choreographed gyrating? That’s simply gonna look comedic. It’ll look foolish.’ So I stated, ‘You realize what? No, neglect about it. Simply play the music.’”

What got here of that call was an instantaneous fan-favorite second and spotlight of your complete six seasons, which Henderson described as an try by Jack to “entertain his drunken fiancée” after she was devoid of strippers at her Bachelorette get together. Fortunately for Henderson, Breckenridge was the right scene accomplice to assist him really feel snug being so susceptible — particularly when manufacturing needed to lower off the music halfway by filming.

“There was just a little little bit of dialogue, sadly, form of interlaced amongst the strip. So in an effort to get the sound for her traces and my traces, we couldn’t have music taking part in,” he instructed Us. “It was so embarrassing. I used to be dying. There’s no music, there’s no beat. I’m simply, like, doing this ridiculous dance. However I’ll say, Alexandra Breckenridge was so variety and current and she or he performed it  reverse me with simply, like, such pleasure and enjoyable,” he stated. “And that was why I feel in the end I made a decision, ‘This could simply be these two actually having fun with one another.’”

The marriage (and bachelor/bachelorette chaos) was undoubtedly the top of season 6, however Mel and Jack have been on their very own respective journeys, too. Breckenridge was significantly invested in Mel’s story line along with her organic father, Everett (John Allen Nelson), whom she reconnected with on the finish of season 5. The twosome spend Virgin River season 6 attending to know one another whereas additionally connecting over their mutual love for Mel’s mom, Sarah, who died when she was 11 years previous.

“I discovered it to be actually touching, particularly as a result of I do know what it’s to lose your mom,” Breckenridge, who’s personal mom handed away, instructed Us. “So I used to be in a short time linked on that stage. l at all times have been to [Mel], however what she’s going by emotionally with discovering her father and having the ability to have this glimpse into what her mom was like [was special].”

Though Mel and Everett skilled just a few bumps within the highway whereas looking for their new regular, their dynamic shortly advanced all through the season, and is one thing Breckenridge is trying ahead to persevering with with season 7.

“’I’m very curious to see the place that goes,” she instructed Us. “I really like how Mel tries to open up her relationship along with her father, and he retains making an attempt to push her away as a result of I feel he doesn’t need to expertise the loss once more. You realize, quite a lot of instances individuals who lose folks, they’re scared to like anybody once more, as a result of they’re scared, they’re gonna undergo that ache. However you possibly can’t reside with out it, you realize? It’s not a life in case you don’t love once more.”

As Mel continued to navigate her new relationship along with her father, Jack was additionally on heis personal private journey, one which Henderson believes was about making “peace and coming to phrases with what his army background meant to him then, but in addition what it means to him now.”

“We watched him fighting that when he needed to reconnect along with his ex-wife. And the medal that’s given to him, he’s kind of nearly disdainful about that and shuns this concept that it was a great factor,” he defined. “And he’s form of throwing the newborn out with the tub water in a method as a result of there’s a lot ache and remorse round among the issues that occurred.”

Henderson famous that Jack was additionally pressured to steadiness his personal destructive feelings about his time within the military whereas additionally supporting Ricky (Grayson Maxwell Gurnsey), who returned to Virgin River earlier than getting deployed. “Jack’s making an attempt to remain the course and keep supportive and never undermine this poor child. [Ricky’s] already acquired his personal insecurity and his concern, and Jack’s making an attempt to say, ‘Hey, it’s OK. I used to be scared too.’ And there’s this grey space round that, and Jack, emotionally, and he doesn’t know how you can really feel.”

Each Mel and Jack’s particular person story traces will seemingly proceed into season 7, however the duo may also be dealing with loads of different obstacles collectively. The ultimate moments of season 6 noticed the duo each entrenched in cliffhangers, with pregnant teen Marley (Rachel Drance) saying she desires Mel and Jack to undertake her unborn child. Jack, in the meantime, went over to test on a lacking Charmaine (Lauren Hammersley) and located her house ransacked earlier than opening her toddler twins’ bed room and discovering one thing surprising — a reveal the viewers has but to see.

Mel and Jack, after all, have been wanting a child collectively for awhile, however after Mel skilled her second being pregnant loss in Virgin River season 5, their future as mother and father has been up within the air. Season 7, nevertheless, may imply large modifications for the newly married duo.

“Jack’s nonetheless form of holding out for this household that he desires and is kind of anxious and desperate to know the place that’s gonna lead,” Henderson shared, whereas Breckenridge teased there are one million ideas racing by Mel’s head — however that doesn’t imply she’s closed off to the concept.

“She’s similar to, in full shock,” she defined. “I imply, she simply acquired married. That is actually the morning after she wakes up, and she or he’s in shock. After which there’s, like, that hope that kind of begins to creep in. We’ll see. I don’t know.”

Virgin River is now streaming on Netflix.