Outlander construct up loads of momentum within the long-awaited second half of Season 7 from the 2024 TV schedule now into the 2025 TV schedule, however followers sadly have an additional week to attend to be taught Claire’s destiny. She was shot within the penultimate episode, leading to a fantastic efficiency from Sam Heughan. Suffice it to say that Jamie has rather a lot on his plate for the upcoming season finale, referred to as “A Hundred Thousand Angels.”
However I am so eager for one explicit scene involving him and his son that I began flashing again to what Charles Vandervaart informed CinemaBlend a few significantly violent scene additionally that includes Caitriona Balfe after William realized the reality about Jamie… and why solely two takes may very well be tried. Absolutely Claire’s cliffhanger cannot take the complete hour, proper?
Why Outlander Is Taking A Week Off Earlier than The Finale
The explanation why Starz is skipping a brand new episode on Friday, January 10 is easy: a one-off particular is taking up the time slot. Regardless of the thirtieth Annual Critics Alternative Awards being postponed because of the wildfires affecting the Los Angeles space, the published of the Critics Alternative Affiliation’s seventh Annual Celebration of Black Cinema and Tv is scheduled for 8 p.m. ET on 1/10, a.okay.a. the same old Outlander slot.
The Season 7 finale will air only a week afterward January 17, and Starz previewed what to anticipate with this episode description:
Denzell should carry out a harmful operation with the talents he’s realized from Claire. William asks for assist from an surprising supply in his mission to save lots of Jane.
Nicely, it isn’t nice information that Claire has to depend on 18th-century drugs as her solely hope of surviving, however Denzell Hunter is definitely her most suitable choice to drag off a medical miracle worthy of the twentieth century! As for William, I am glad to be taught that extra of the storyline with Jane is on the best way after an earlier episode received me invested of their dynamic, however I might additionally like to see not less than another scene between William and Jamie and/or Lord John.
And realizing that jogged my memory of my dialog with Charles Vandervaart, who performs William, about his character’s violent response to studying Jamie is his true father.
Charles Vandervaart’s Violent Scene
Probably essentially the most chaotic scene of Season 7B concerned Jamie’s return from the “lifeless” to the shock of Claire and Lord John, adopted by William by chance studying the reality that each one three had tried very exhausting to cover from him. Shortly after Jamie severely beat Lord John for having “carnal information” of his spouse,” William confirmed that he inherited some mood from Jamie regardless of being raised by one other man.
Claire confirming the reality to William was all he wanted to enter what can charitably be referred to as a tantrum, however extra actually described as a rage. He proceeded to shock Claire with a rampage by means of Lord John’s home, destroying vases, furnishings, the chandelier, a mirror, and… a desk, which was a a lot greater deal in actual life than it appeared in comparison with the remainder of the destruction within the episode.
It was fortunate sufficient that William directed his violence at inanimate objects in comparison with what Jamie did to Lord John, however Sam Heughan and David Berry most likely have been capable of movie many extra takes of their combat than Charles Vandervaart may of his rage by means of the home whereas Caitriona Balfe watched. Once I spoke with the actor in regards to the “horrible, horrible issues” that William did in Episode 12, I additionally needed to know what number of takes he needed to get that scene proper, and he defined:
Two takes! We received two takes for that scene, and I keep in mind the prop man was telling me, ‘Hey, that is an vintage desk. Should you can, attempt to not kick it very exhausting.’ And I used to be simply pondering, how am I alleged to not kick it exhausting? I am alleged to be as indignant as attainable. I am not simply gonna break all the pieces, shatter all the pieces else, after which simply flippantly faucet this desk. So I informed him, ‘Look, I am gonna kick it. I am so sorry if it breaks.’ And he informed me that there is solely one among them.
Neither one among William’s fathers was current when he destroyed all the pieces inside attain on his means out of the home, which is a part of why I might like to see the three of them sharing a stable scene earlier than the tip of Season 7. However the rampage got here proper after he realized from Claire that not solely was Jamie actually the person who sired him, however Lord John had recognized all alongside. So, if William was going to behave on his fury, he could not maintain again within the warmth of the second! Vandervaart went on:
I feel the take that they used was the primary take, as a result of after that, the desk was completely shattered. [laughs] It was in items. And I feel they managed to salvage it. As a result of it was outdated, it did not have any nails or something in it. So I feel you can form of reassemble it. I imply, fingers crossed. That is what they informed me. However yeah, it was two takes, after which we did not have something left to interrupt. All of it was damaged.
I went again and rewatched this explicit sequence from Episode 12 by way of my Hulu subscription with Starz, and it does appear like Charles Vandervaart kicked the desk with sufficient drive to shatter it within the take that ended up within the closing minimize. The digicam additionally panned away from desk earlier than viewers may see the way it ended up after the kick, however hopefully the desk may certainly be salvaged for the sake of the prop man.
All in all, Vandervaart described the sequence as “not tremendous nice” for his character, and he remembered it fairly in a different way as an actor. He shared:
It was not tremendous nice. In actual life, although, that was such a enjoyable scene, borderline one among my favourite scenes of all time. I primarily received to be in a rage room and simply break no matter I wished for my job. It was so nice. You’ll be able to’t see it within the present, clearly, however in between takes, I used to be smiling a lot. I used to be like, ‘That is the perfect day of my life!’ You by no means get to try this, proper? It’s important to behave in actual life. You’ll be able to’t simply break something you need. So it was an actual deal with to try this as soon as in my life.
Charles Vandervaart had much more enjoyable with the scene as an actor than his character did within the episode! All in all, we have principally seen William’s rage expressed within the unsuitable instructions, starting from smashing tables to forcing a kiss on Rachel to mistreating Jane throughout their first encounter within the brothel.
Now that he is cooled down, I might be all-in on Outlander that includes a scene with William, Jamie, and Lord John really speaking out what has occurred… as a lot as the lads of Outlander ever speak issues out, anyway. Alas, not a lot time is left within the foreseeable future.
The Season 7 finale of Outlander will air on Friday, January 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Starz. The present been renewed, however the eighth season will even be the final. Filming concluded on Season 8 again in September, and it stays to be seen when Starz really plans on premiering it. For now, make sure you tune on January 17 in to see how Claire presumably survives her bloody ordeal from the penultimate episode!