10 Things You Didn't Know About Only Fools & Horses
2. Damien's Demonic Birth
As well
as the laugh out loud moments that Only Fools & Horses gave us, it also
became known for genuinely heart-warming scenes that saw the characters deal
with trials and tribulations in their life. The audience were able to watch the
Trotters grow and mature as people over the course of the series.
One such touching moment came when Del Boy and Raquel became first-time parents to Damien Trotter. As explained by Tessa Peake-Jones in an interview with UKTV Gold, none of the cast were parents at the time of the recording and were invited to watch a video of a childbirth to help with their performances.
“So a very sweet staff nurse suggested I watch it, mainly for me to hear the sounds and effects that would be made while giving birth. But all the lads said ‘Oh we’ll come and watch it’. We’d just had breakfast, and there was Buster, Nick, David and myself, and the director Tony and all the stage crew, and they played this film which was exceedingly graphic of this very brave woman agreeing to let the cameras film her, with the blood and afterbirth and her agony"
Tessa added that after the film, Buster turned to them and said, “I feel really sick now”. Ah, the miracle of childbirth.