The celebrities of Outlander had been available Friday (July 25) morning at San Diego Comedian-Con to advertise what they promised to be a satisfying remaining season of the time-traveling drama. Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, Richard Rankin, Maril Davis, and Matthew B. Roberts had been all current for the panel, which occurred at Corridor H, to supply a gripping preview and share just a few key particulars about Season 8 to the rapt crowd in attendance.
“I suppose the concept for the final season was to not attempt to high [the previous seven], simply do a actually good season of Outlander and make it work,” Roberts stated. “Make certain the tales work and give the characters time to do what they do… to deal with the conflicts in entrance of them, as an alternative of attempting to make it one thing it wasn’t simply to do that. And I suppose we completed that. And hopefully you guys really feel the similar method.”
“It was a very, very onerous season to shoot,” Heughan added. “I suppose there had been so many feelings going round. And I suppose day to day, you’d be like, ‘Oh, this is simply one other day at work. We’ve been doing this 11 years.’ However then different days, you’d be like, ‘This is the final time I’m gonna work with this individual or put on this costume or no matter.’ So it made the final season very charged, I suppose, and a lot of scenes are very charged, however that all provides to this very dramatic storyline anyway. So it’s extra Outlander, simply a mega XL model.”
Skelton added, “We’ve type of surpassed the books at this level, and so the suitable choices, the unbelievable job of simply protecting that nostalgia as you possibly can see… but in addition simply injecting some stuff that you just simply don’t anticipate.”
Davis stated she first grew to become emotional throughout the first season desk learn and didn’t cease crying all through the season. Nevertheless, she got here away from the Season 8 shoot with a serious takeaway: “I, as a fan, was very glad,” she stated.
Although the forged and producers had been mum on any spoilers about Season 8, Heughan pointed to the music within the Season 7 finale because the animus for what’s to return in Season 8 and added, “For Jamie and Claire, their world is about to alter very otherwise.”
For these on the stage, the present’s true legacy gained’t simply be what followers take away from it, however the pals they made alongside the way in which.
“We’re fortunate, all of us, that you just watch an episode of Outlander, and for all of us up right here, it’s sort of like a house film. Since you see the scene and we keep in mind what we had been doing,” Roberts shared. “We’ve 100 hours of house motion pictures, and that’s what memorable to me. We will all the time flip it on and keep in mind what we did collectively.
“We’ve created this wonderful household. It’s been onerous. We’ve been saying this could be our final Comedian-Con, who is aware of,” Heughan stated. “It’s simply been an incredible journey … We’re so grateful.”
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