“Outlander” is returning with the concluding episodes of its seventh season this month, however its stars have already wrapped official manufacturing on the present’s eighth and closing season.
Caitríona Balfe and Sam Heughan, who’ve performed time traveler Claire and 18th century Highlander Jamie for the reason that present started, lately teased their bittersweet goodbye. Speaking lower than a fortnight after their official wrap day, with only some pick-up pictures left to shoot, the celebrities described filming their closing scene for the upcoming season.
“It was very emotional. I was very emotional,” Balfe mentioned.
“I was, too,” Heughan agreed. “We ended on a scene, well, I think — it was quite tough to do because it was a real Jamie-Claire moment, so it felt quite fitting. And I think they scheduled it like that. But it was also quite intense because a lot of the crew came to sort of celebrate or watch the final take of the final scene.”
“And there was a lot of words,” added Balfe. “It was really hard to get through it because it also felt like everything had sort of this double meaning, you know, it’s a lot of talk about goodbyes and things.”
Based on the books by Diana Gabaldon and principally filmed in Scotland, the long-running present has leapt throughout time intervals, together with the Jacobite Rising, 1740s Versailles, Sixties Boston, the Revolutionary War — and extra.
“I played Jamie when he was 23 and now he’s sort of around 60. So it’s quite a journey,” mentioned Heughan. “The show is always changing, always moving, it’s a real journey that they’ve been on from Scotland to America. And I think it’s very rewarding. I’m glad we weren’t in a sort of procedural where we had to sort of be in the same location all the time.”
The concluding half of Season 7, premiering Nov. 22 on Starz, begins with the couple returning to Jamie’s homeland of Scotland, earlier than America — and the insurgent trigger within the Revolutionary War — calls once more, testing their marriage like by no means earlier than.
“Returning home obviously is going to be so rewarding for Jamie, but also for the fans,” Heughan mentioned, “because I think the fans, they get to see a lot of, their favorite characters and their favorite locations.”
The newest episodes weave in storylines involving Claire and Jamie’s time-traveling daughter Brianna and her husband Roger (Sophie Skelton and Richard Rankin) and Jamie’s nephew Ian (John Bell), in addition to Jamie’s secret son William (Charles Vandervaart) and the British lord who’s elevating him.
Season 7 additionally options one in every of Heughan’s favourite co-stars — one he confirms followers gained’t be seeing in Season 8.
“It’s actually the last time you see Sleepy,” Heughan says. “He was my horse throughout first seasons. And he’s a black Friesian with a white spot on him. And actually, if you look closely, he somehow transports himself to America as well because he doubles up as a horse in America. But yeah, I mean, we say goodbye to a lot of locations, a lot of characters in Season 7B.”
With the final season nonetheless to come back, and the “Outlander” universe increasing with the upcoming prequel “Outlander: Blood of My Blood,” the story will proceed for followers — though Balfe and Heughan will probably be getting used to their “Droughtlander,” the time period followers coined for intervals with out the present.
“It has been our lives for the last 11 years. We’ve built families and homes in Scotland,” mentioned Heughan. “So, yes, it’s quite a change that we’re about to face.”
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