Earlier than viewers are whisked away to the Scottish Highlands in Starz‘s upcoming Outlander prequel collection, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, the forged and creatives dropped by TV Insider and TV Information Journal’s studio at San Diego Comedian-Con to tease what’s forward.
For these much less acquainted with the franchise, Outlander follows World Conflict II fight nurse Claire (Caitriona Balfe) as she’s whisked away via time on the standing stones of Craigh Na Dun, inserting her within the path of 18th-century Highlander warrior Jamie (Sam Heughan). Their epic love story spans centuries as they’ve come up in opposition to conflict and separation, and confronted triumphant reunions.
Blood of My Blood will discover two romances, the primary being between Claire’s dad and mom, Julia (Hermione Corfield) and Henry (Jeremy Irvine), in World Conflict I England, and the second being Jamie’s dad and mom, Brian (Jamie Roy) and Ellen (Harriet Slater). However as followers noticed within the present’s official trailer, there’s a time-traveling twist that can ship Julia and Henry to Brian and Ellen’s time.
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“The thought got here from the Outlander books,” government producer Matthew B. Roberts revealed. “There’s a beautiful thread about Ellen and Brian… about how they elope and so they get married and transfer to Lallybroch and so they have youngsters, certainly one of them being Jamie.”
“So we began spinning it off and doing a prequel, and the considered doing simply that story wasn’t fairly sufficient for his full collection. And I requested the query, what if Henry and Julia didn’t die within the automotive crash? What in the event that they reside?” Roberts added.
The thought was so thrilling to fellow government producer Maril Davis, that she was on board instantly. “I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, that’s sensible!’” Davis recalled. “However I additionally love the concept that Matt advised me that someway this meant that Claire’s dad and mom and Jamie’s dad and mom assembly and their storylines intersecting meant that Jamie and Claire have been introduced collectively in a method. So I believe that’s such a beautiful continuation of the story.”
In different phrases, Jamie and Claire followers might be hooked by this fascinating new collection. Davis and Roberts have been joined on the sofa for the interview by stars Roy, Slater, Corfield, Rory Alexander, Sam Retford, and Séamus McLean Ross.
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Roy opened up about bonding with Outlander‘s main man, Sam Heughan, “We talked on the cellphone for perhaps like 20 minutes for a time simply earlier than we began manufacturing, after which I met him for the primary time, I believe most likely midway via manufacturing. My objective of assembly him was to get to know him and choose his mind about some stuff. However actually, I believe we most likely talked store for like 5 minutes or one thing, after which we simply began speaking about fully random stuff like, I don’t know, climbing mountains and whiskey.”
In the meantime, Corfield teased Julia’s likeness to Claire, “Julia is a girl who lives on her wits and her resourcefulness, and he or she has to as a result of she’s put into some very wild situations.”
“You’ll see her pivoting and always utilizing her intelligence to save lots of herself over and over and over… emotionally and bodily,” Corfield added. Much like Claire, the star famous that “as a lot as [Julia]’s sensible, she believes within the fantastical as nicely.”
On the opposite aspect of that’s Jamie’s mother, Ellen, who Slater stated, “Ought to have been laird, actually. The one cause she isn’t is as a result of she’s a girl.” Slater added, “She could be very strong-willed, very sensible. Much like Julia, she makes use of her intelligence to engineer conditions. As a result of she’s a girl, she can’t say what she needs to say more often than not or do what she needs to do. So she has to seek out different methods to save lots of herself.”
See what else the celebrities are teasing within the full video interview above, and don’t miss Outlander: Blood of My Blood when the present arrives on Starz.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Sequence Premiere, Friday, August 8, 8/7c, Starz
—Reporting by Kate Hahn