The world of Outlander is returning to the small display screen quickly within the 2025 TV schedule with the premiere of Blood of My Blood. The prequel spinoff facilities on the respective love tales of Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine) as Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) mother and father in addition to Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy) and Ellen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater) as Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) future mother and father. It appeared like an easy premise… till the trailer blew up any simple assumptions by revealing that Julia and Henry will journey again in time and presumably meet Brian and Ellen.
I used to be lucky sufficient to talk with the forged of Outlander: Blood of My Blood, together with actors who shall be enjoying the youthful variations of some key Outlander characters, at San Diego Comedian-Con 2025. They opened up in regards to the huge twist getting noticed by the paps and the early renewal for Season 2.
Papparazzi Caught Pictures Of Time-Touring Julia
The massive twist that received Outlander followers speaking was revealed within the trailer, with the shocker that we cannot be watching one love story unfolding within the 18th century whereas the opposite was within the twentieth. Julia evidently will undergo the identical standing stones that modified Claire’s story eternally, to come across Jamie’s future mother and father. After I spoke with Hermione Corfield at SDCC, I needed to ask: was it a problem holding secrets and techniques about Blood of My Blood will filming the primary season? She responded:
There is a level the place I could not say I time traveled, Folks would ask, they’d be like, ‘Discuss your character,’ and I am like, ‘She works within the discount workplace,’ phrase for phrase. I am unable to say the rest. There’s nothing else to say.
As any individual who had seen that there have been loads of press pictures launched forward of time with the 18th-century Scottish characters and never almost as lots of Julia and Henry within the twentieth century, the time journey twist instantly made sense. The present did a reasonably wonderful job of holding a lid on spoilers, contemplating that the time journey appears to be about as central to Blood of My Blood as time journey within the unique Outlander. Hermione Corfield went on to clarify what occurred when she filmed exterior for 18th century scenes with some paparazzi within the combine:
The primary time exterior… they have been like, ‘You need to have umbrellas over you whenever you stroll round, in case you get papped.’ So we have been strolling round with umbrellas, and we have been strolling round all morning. We take the umbrellas down, and there is simply three paparazzi in like excellent view. [laughs] Arrange and able to go. They usually simply watched the entire capturing of the scene, as a result of they get completely positioned.
Nicely, if these pap pics circulated on-line after they have been snapped, they did not get to everyone! I hadn’t seen them, and primarily based on social media chatter after the trailer launch, loads of Outlander followers have been as shocked as I used to be to see Claire’s mother going by the identical stones that might declare her daughter a pair many years later. The massive time journey twist appears to have been no less than principally preserved.
The Solid Is Already Working On Season 2
Starz wasted no time in renewing Blood of My Blood for no less than yet one more spherical, with an order for Season 2 introduced greater than a month earlier than Season 1 arrives. Manufacturing kicked off in late June, utilizing the identical units that Outlander used for years earlier than filming wrapped for Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe in 2024. So, once I had the possibility to talk with Sam Retford (enjoying Dougal MacKenzie), Seamus McLean Ross (enjoying Colum MacKenzie), and Rory Alexander (enjoying Murtagh), I needed to ask what it has been like for them to get began on Season 2 when Season 1 will not premiere till August 8. Retford responded:
We spent a lot time making ready for Season 1 with the boot camp. I imply, we began form of floating across the undertaking in 2023 after which to be at this place now, and searching all the way in which again to then seeing how lengthy we spent working and growing these characters, put a lot effort in there, after which to see that repay, and the anticipation be taken away, and go, ‘No, really, it does work, we have performed it.’
Going from the “floating” stage in 2023 to taking Corridor H at San Diego Comedian-Con straight after Outlander‘s panel debuted the primary Season 8 footage on stage is actually an epic approach to see how excessive anticipation is for the payoff! Followers nonetheless have a while to attend earlier than the two-episode premiere, however the forged has already seen a few of the first season. Sam Retford went on:
We have watched episodes in it, and it appears to be like incredible. As a fan of those tales, it’s going to be extraordinarily satiating to open that universe up. And so then approaching Season 2 simply looks like we will form of take the strain off ourselves and assume, ‘Okay, let’s simply play with these characters. Let’s have enjoyable with them. Let’s take pleasure in.’
A perk for the actors enjoying Dougal, Colum, and Murtagh needs to be that even when they don’t seem to be wrapped up in the principle time journey drama like the 2 {couples}, their characters additionally cannot be killed off. Outlander ensures their survival, and Season 2 can increase their tales. As Seamus McLean Ross mentioned:
There is a deeper dive into their form of internal worlds. In Season 2, you may get the form of extra intricate understanding of their form of internal psychology extra. Not the form of like given circumstances of the present, however the extra form of deeper dive into their psychology.
For now, the times are counting down till Season 1 kicks off on Starz on Friday, August 8 at 8 p.m. ET. That shall be nearly precisely eleven years to the day that Outlander premiered again in 2014, which strikes me as an excellent signal for the present. As for the unique collection, Claire and Jamie will return for his or her remaining season sooner or later in 2026. Make sure to verify again with CinemaBlend for extra from the forged of Outlander: Blood of My Blood quickly!